Okay, so let's start off by saying I'm a registered dental assistant in CA and most of these negative reviews have NO IDEA about the basics of dentistry, yet are trying to put fault on this poor team.
Look, It's BUDGET DENTAL.
They do safe and quick treatments at an affordable cost, I don't know if these reviewers are expecting to sit in the lap of luxury, but dental facilities are expensive and hard to run. If you want top dollar environment and spa services while getting your work done, go to Beverly Hills for your treatment. This place is clean, safe and has REAL people who won't JUDGE YOU for not having endless pockets, but still needing treatment. They understand you're in pain or having a dental emergency and they're on it quickly. I need an emergency exam with xray and know I don't have money for a root canal? I can easily book a tooth extraction online, even for my first appointment. Sure, if your tooth is salvagable they're going to try to coax you into keeping it, but it's not for MONEY. It's because it's DIFFICULT and EXPENSIVE to replace those teeth! Your whole occlusion will shift, you may not be able to chew properly, you may have bone loss. They aren't going to throw anything that would be blatantly unnecessary at you- you just aren't educated enough to comprehend WHY when it seems like SO MUCH money. You haven't seen the repercussions from constantly rejecting the optimal treatment plan. Just because dentistry often has alternatives, doesn't mean they're better.
To the dude saying his fillings kept falling out and they should have used amalgam (Which he didn't even spell correctly, probably doesn't know the proper terminology, but that's beside the point) You cannot possibly complain about your chewing or hygiene habits and say that it's on the dental team. You wanted amalgam because it's "tougher" but have you even the slightest clue that your decay may have been too DEEP to place an amalgam? Composites (white fillings) are chemically bonded to the tooth, amalgam is physically retained. SO the dentist would waste MORE of your healthy tooth prepping a larger area to even do the amalgam in the first place. Not only that, but amalgam makes it hard to detect growing decay beneath the filling since it's illuminated in radiographs. Obviously your fillings were large enough to need either a bruxer crown or a bite guard because if the prep was isolated properly, your fillings shouldn't have fallen out unless you let decay grow under the restorations from not flossing and brushing correctly. If it was one tooth, that's a fluke, but MULTIPLE like you've listed? It's something you're doing wrong, but no dental team will say that since they know you won't take it well and you can't possibly understand the full ramifications of your poor hygiene or habits. You probably floss incorrectly, not following slightly under the gingiva in a 'c' shape because no one teaches the general public this. So even if you're flossing, you're probably not doing it right. Do you brush each tooth individually, or do you power stroke across your whole quadrant, leading to gum recession and ineffectively cleaning your teeth in under 3 minutes? Again: Most likely.
Also, you do not generally do fillings on front teeth unless they are minuscule or from gum recession with no decay, simply to protect the exposed root. It's a thinner tooth that's easily susceptible to decay that the optimal treatment would be to crown the tooth. I'm going to guess, since you switched to the dental school, that cost was an issue and you didn't go with the best treatment plan based on finances. Which, is fine, everyone has their monetary limits, but you can't complain when you're not following the best course of action.
PS if you're gonna whiten your teeth with a tray, just use Crest Whitestrips. They actually work and they do better than the trays if you're not using a UV light. If you're doing in-office whitening treatment, do ZOOM. But be warned, it will hurt your gums, make your teeth sensitive and potentially exacerbate calcification on your teeth you wouldn't notice otherwise. NO ONE knows the effects of whitening until after, not even your dentist. It's like going to a hair salon wanting to be a dark blonde and coming out patchy platinum, even though they had the solution lift your color at the same time for the previous person.
There was another user who complained about their implant and abutment situation, but most dentists would never put their name on the line for someone else's work. This clearly falls under the patient stealing laws, and frankly, they have no clue exactly how reliable the previous doctor's work is. But when your entire implant gets infected or your bone grafting wasn't successful, they're going to have to take the blame because the new dentist took the risk of completing treatment that they didn't start. Not very smart risk to take when you could face charges and potential false malpractice cases, hmm? read more
