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    Katie Burggraaf, DDS

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    Tooth filling replacement or repair

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    Smilie's Pediatric Dentistry

    Smilie's Pediatric Dentistry

    1.0(1 review)
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    Please read to the end, I know this is long, but you will thank me!…read more My kids have been patients of Smilies Pediatric Dentistry for over a year now. I waited too long to take them to the dentist and I knew they would have some cavities, my oldest was 6 at the time. We had some bad habits of giving them milk at bedtime, and it seemed harmless at the time, because we brushed regularly and their teeth were so perfect. After looking at them, Dr LaDue decided that my middle would need to go to the hospital to be put under because he would need so many crowns. I think 5 stainless steel crowns total in his back teeth. And my oldest needed 3 I think, but he got his done in the office. When deciding the treatment plan, Dr LaDue rattled off 3 options, white filling, silver fillings or stainless steel crowns, as if we had an option, but we didn't, he only does stainless steel crowns on that second smaller molar, and if the largest molar has 2 cavities in it or more, he'll crown that too. Basically Dr LaDue doesn't believe in putting in fillings like most dentists. I guess most pediatric dentists don't.. I feel that is more a financial gain for him, not necessarily what's best for the child. My middle son won't even smile with his mouth open anymore since the crowns show. I pleaded with Dr. LaDue to use fillings instead, it would be so much cheaper and less conspicuous to do fillings. He sat me down in his office and showed me reports that showed that crowns were 93% effective and silver fillings were only 85 % effective, meaning they'd fail 7% and 15% (these numbers may be off a little, I'm just going by memory) respectively, and you may have to crown those filling later on. So Dr. LaDue is basically cutting to the chase and assuming all fillings will fail, so lets just crown them all. I can understand wanting to put crowns on a child who is deathly afraid of the dentist, or has special needs that mean a trip coming back to the dentist is not worth it, and the price tag of a crown seems reasonable when faced with a return trip in a few years. Maybe then. MAYBE. It should be up to the parent though. We we sat down in the office, he told me that if we didn't do his treatment plan, he wouldn't take "the case". Yes he referred to my child as "the case". I should have run then. But I didn't, I knew my kids had cavities, and it had taken us a couple months to get them in, plus it was going to be a couple months before they were able to get us in to get all the work done, I couldn't just start over, or so I thought. Fast forward a year later after the work was done. (I think my kids have 8 or 9 total crowns.) 2 of the 3 kids passed their recent cleanings fine, my middle had something the hygienist was concerned with. She barely saw a blip on the xray, and she was going to have the dentist look at it and call me back. She called back a week later and said my child would need a crown on the tooth, since it was the small molar, that's all they could do. So we went from not even knowing if it was indeed a cavity, to needing a crown. I scheduled the appt. and then started looking for other dentists. I needed one anyway since mine was retiring, so I picked a family dentist close to my house. The new guy got us in within a month. He looked in my childs mouth, and couldn't find the cavity or anything wrong with the tooth that Smilies was going to crown. Of course, Smilies is dragging their feet about getting our records transferred, and still hadn't sent the xrays after 2 weeks of the request. I found out that our new dentist is the President of the West Michigan District Dental Society after I scheduled the appointment, so he is an extremely well respected dentist in our area. As we walked out of the new office, I was extremely grateful to have made the switch, but also so irritated, because if this tooth didn't need a crown, how many others in my kids mouth were put in just for the $$$$$$$. I was, and am still sick about it. Bottom line, at best, Dr. LaDue at smilies pediatrics is not a good choice for most children. At worse it is a corrupt practice. When I think back to the THOUSANDS of dollars we shelled out for these crowns, on baby teeth that will fall out in the next few years that just fly by, I'm gutted with regret. I'm gutted everytime I see them smile. Moms and Dads, save yourself some pain, and find a nice respected family dentist. They still have toys to play with, still are great with kids, but will not be all about the $$$$. Think about it, in Peds dentistry there isn't a lot of high billable items, like in adult dentistry. Stainless steel crowns are their bread and butter. Makes me sick.

    Katie Burggraaf, DDS - cosmeticdentists - Updated June 2026

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