At first, Dr. Gianfortune seemed like a confidence-inspiring, old-school senior dentist.
I switched to him after I realised that a filling that one Croatian cobbler had made on my #30 tooth was a worthless mickey mouse job. My tongue felt this cavity, which a previous Romanian dentist apparently missed -I don't think that it could have grown to be a cavern in about 6 months- at the gum line; the work that that cobbler did actually left what appeared to be a skirt/awning covering it, and I had discovered that it had left the cavity open and just as prone to further deterioration as if nothing had been done.
Dr. Gianfortune filled it ...with a resin composite that also was disguising the problem like an awning. Not only was the filling what you would expect to be temporary, but it eventually fell off -at which time I could see that it was as if somebody had filled the opening with chewing gum, or like a Chicago-style street pot-hole filling.
Going back? Zero confidence left to do so. Now, I'm looking for a real dentist like crazy, one obstacle after another, hoping that the blasted problem will not degenerate into needing a root canal -and who know what complications arising from it thanks to the next Chicago-style cobbler that will work on it...
Additional detail: prior to working on me, the nice dentist realised that the canister used for the water dispenser had to be changed. So, there he goes, tinkering with that maintenance job wearing the same gloves that he was going to work on me with. Shy me, I didn't want to hurt his feelings objecting to this, expecting that he was going to do a really good work and not the disgrace that it turned out to be. read more