Staff can be extremely rude in person and on the phone, when you ask any questions…read more
Careful reading other reviews as I noticed several 5 ratings just a few days after I put in a 1 . Almost like they are from employees or the business itself which is shady. Also every new one talks about staff which is why I decided to write this review to explain my 1 rating.
A few weeks ago I took my daughter and son to Dr Le office, as we try to do twice a year. While there they mentioned my son had a cavity on his baby teeth and my daughter was "Good". A week later they called my wife and said my daughter had 5 cavities that needed to be taken care of immediately. When I heard this, I called my daughter to confirm what she heard, and we both remembered them saying she was "Good". So I called to asked a simple clarification about my daughters checkup and was continually talked to unprofessionally. They kept interrupting me and saying "that is what is in the file, sir", and when I kept saying that's not we heard the Dr say, they just dismissed it, and repeated the same thing over and over, to the point that as soon as I started to say something they interrupted me and said it again without even hearing me out. I asked them to please stop taking over me when I'm asking questions, and then they put me on speakerphone so the entire front office could hear because it was so difficult that I was just trying to get clarification. They never even once considered that the customer might actually be right, until after I explained what happened. After about a 2 minute explanation they offered a "free" follow up exam to resolve their mistake, but didn't even say sorry for the misunderstanding. They did not once even consider looking at it from the customer perspective, almost like they didn't even care or that spending 30 secs talking to a patient/customer was to much of an effort/annoyance for their busy day.
When we came back for a follow up exam staff wouldn't even say hello or even a simple professional "Good Morning", nothing. After we signed in they wouldn't even acknowledge we were in the room. My, daughter said she was extremely uncomfortable and asked if we could leave, but I decided to stay and resolve the misunderstanding, which was not our fault from the beginning, as we where told everything was "Good" a few weeks ago. When my daughter went back to the room, the dentist politely asked if I wanted to attend, and the front office staff yelled, "He must go!!" Basically demanding unprofessionally again with out politely asking if I could attend to make sure everything was ok.
The Dr was very nice during the appointment and assistants where great.
BUT then we went back to the front office staff again.... the Dr assistant handed the paperwork to the front office they grabbed it and said, "Did you tell HIM!!!" without even looking in my direction, like this was all my fault. They then walked away and sat down without looking at me or saying anything, and started typing something, when I asked a question what's going on they said "Calculating how much you owe us", like I'm suppose to read their mind about what's going on. My daughter felt extremely uncomfortable again so I took her outside and then came back in to pay. When I went back in I was charged for 5 cavities even though the Dr clearly stated they were not actually cavities yet, which I think is actually insurance fraud, but whatever, I didn't want to argue anymore so I just paid. When I was done I said "Goodbye" and was not even acknowledged, replied to or even gestured again, which is extremely unprofessional and rude, now pretty much a standard.
Is it really to much to ask for a business, at a minimum, to be professional, respectful and to show they actually care about their customers. I don't think that is asking for too much.
Overall if someone would actually apologize and be polite then this would be a 4 or 5 dentist office.
The only reason I'm planning on going back is because of the Dr. Le. HE IS GREAT!!!