Oh. My. God. I forgot how painful a simple cleaning could be until my latest appointment at Dr. Platt's office.
Dr. Platt took over the business from Dr. DuFort a year or two back. If you are a former patient of Dr. DuFort, you will be VERY disappointed on your next visit. Dr. Platt has now cleared out the competent, friendly staff and replaced it with something that is neither of those.
I used to have an excellent hygienist whose name unfortunately escapes me. Sadly, she has been replaced by an inexperienced, poorly trained beginner.
I won't identify the beginner by name here, but she shares a first name with a Game of Thrones character known for hurting people with sharp objects. She must have graduated from some third-rate dental assistant school last week. I can't believe that any hygienist in 2020 can be trained to deliver so much misery to a patient.
Let's be clear here. I've had regular checkups and cleanings twice per year going back for many, many years. I brush daily and floss weekly, and don't normally experience any dental pain at all. This was just an unprecedented disaster of pain from an inexperienced assistant who clearly chose the wrong career path.
She began with the most painful gum measurement process I have ever been forced to sit through. I wasn't even aware that a simple gum measurement could hurt so much in the wrong hands. This was followed by a cleaning that amounted to 45 minutes of pure torture. She didn't clean my teeth so much as stab me in the gums repeatedly. At one point she stabbed me in the same place so many times that I had to yell and pull away.
Top it off with a lecture about flossing delivered in her childish little-girl voice, and I left angry about the level of service. It felt more like an assault than a cleaning. Dr. Platt should know better than to hire someone so inexperienced and just godawful at her job.
Do you want a dentist that has no regard for the comfort of his patients? I sure don't. I'm done with this quackery. Now I have to go through the hassle of finding a decent dentist with an experienced, competent hygienist. Grrrr! read more