I did not much like my experience with Dr. Vitalie. The office was clean, very professional, and they had a good variety of magazines to browse while I waited. The wait time wasn't that long and it was easy to get an appointment. The assistants all seemed nice enough, but then the doctor arrived. In my opinion, he treated everyone who worked there with no respect whatsoever - not the barest thread of courtesy to his staff. He yelled at one assistant, dismissed another disdainfully as she tried to ask him a question, and just changed the tone and mood of the place with his presence. When I got to meet him, I was turned off by his ego. He introduced himself by boasting that he had given a lecture on the west coast recently and that someone was writing an article on him. He did not care much about what my previous dental work entailed. I got the impression that he was implying that he'd have to start from scratch, probably fixing what other, less capable dentists had not taken care of properly. His work was rough, and he seemed unconcerned whether I was in pain or not. I asked him to stop at one point, but he continued anyhow saying that he was almost done and that I could handle just a little bit more. It turned out he wasn't almost done. It was a painful experience that needed not have been so. When it was all done and I complained of pain, he only gave me ibuprofen (Advil). The above is just my opinion, and I could be wrong. He may have been having a bad day. Or maybe I was having a bad day and interpreted his actions wrongly. Either way, I won't go back to Dr. Vitalie. read more

I've been going to Dr. Vitalie's office since I was a kid, and after leaving the area for a few years, I realized how lucky I was. I've never had issues with any of the work I've had and he has the most competent staff in the area. I'm very surprised by the two previous reviews, perhaps they're not as familiar with how insurance providers work with dental practices, but I digress. I wouldn't trust something as important as dental work to anyone else. read more

Very nice office, the staff that I dealt with was great, very friendly. However, I felt like I was constantly being sold something. I went in to have some cleaning done and get some previous work repaired but left with a huge brochure on all kinds of other procedures that weren't covered by my insurance. I havent gone back, I don't like feeling pressured into buying things. It's one thing on a car lot, but not at the dentist. Fix my teeth, dont try to "up-sell" me. read more

Dr. Vitalie is a dentist-salesman. He is a much better salesman than dentist. As a dentist, he is rough as he works around your mouth, and no amount of protest will garner you any sympathy. He is merely a technician, wanting to get through the procedure as quickly as possible. As a salesman, he can't be beat. I made a new patient appointment for your standard check-up and cleaning. During my check-up, Vitalie looked in my mouth, and then with his hands touched the base of my head and neck and shoulders. He smushed around there for a second. He asked me if I ever got headaches. Well, yes, sometimes, I said. He said he had received advanced dental training from some place in Las Vegas, and that my cross bite was the reason I was having headaches. Headaches and a cross bite were nowhere on my list of concerns when I made this new patient appointment. Later, after doing research on the place Dr. Vitalie said he had done his special training (The Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies), I learned that it's a for-profit business where dentists pay to take continuing education classes there and then pay to market themselves on their website as neuromuscular-trained dentists who can help resolve your TMJ / TMD symptoms. No wonder he was so keen on selling me this bogus crap. His sales tactics all made sense now. I mean, he markets TMJ/TMD problems to as many poor, unsuspecting souls as he can, to people like me who don't have TMJ/TMD problems in the first place. I need to address my cross bite to fix my headaches? If I went in specifically inquiring about these things or specifically stated I was unhappy with my cross bite or was trying to find a solution for my headaches, it would be one thing. But for me to be an unsuspecting patient, where there already is an imbalance of power due to the fact that he is a "medical doctor" of sorts and I have no training in his field, it was highly unethical of him to create "problems" that I did not need to address. After asking if I ever got headaches, Vitalie asked if I had had much success in treating those headaches. since I still had headaches, he suggested I hadn't had any success in treating them at all. He said the problem was in my cross bite, and he could help me fix my headaches. He said this could be achieved by running little electrical pulses through my face to relax my jaw into its natural position. How much for this procedure, I asked. Vitalie said $130. If it's $130, then we can try it, I said. He glued electrodes to my face and said the stimulating pulse would relax my jaw into its natural position. I sat in a chair for an hour with electrodes stuck to my face as if I were right out of a bad science fiction movie. Well, when it came time to pay, Vitalie was nowhere to be found, as he had left for the day. I soon come to learn from his friendly-as-a-shark receptionist that Vitalie was charging me $500. I told the girl that was NOT what Vitalie said the cost was. I know what $130 sounds like - it doesn't sound like $500. Say the two numbers out loud for yourself - they sound nothing alike, you wouldn't confuse the two. The girl said I could not leave without paying the $500 because I signed their paperwork saying I was legally responsible for payment at time of service. Bewildered, I paid $500 that day. The weeks that ensued trying to take care of this load of crap involved me having to call and call and call and tell them that I was of course happy to pay the $130 quoted to me since that was what I agreed to (despite the fact that the procedure, unsurprisingly, resulted in nothing) but to take an extra $370 from me for accomplishing absolutely nothing was unjust and unethical. The fact that I walked in there for a check-up/cleaning and ended up being sold Vitalie's TMJ/TMD marketing ploy shows you what a snake oil salesman Vitalie is. on top of that, he blatantly charged me a price nearly $400 above what he quoted me, and did so without blinking. You can imagine having to talk to his guard dog staff and arrogant Vitalie over the phone - talk about extremely uncomfortable. I eventually got a check in the mail, but between the watchdog staff, snake oil salesman who passes himself off as a dentist, dishonest business practices, and my time and money wasted, I can say this: Vitalie is not a kind dentist, nor an honorable one. If you enjoy being treated badly, go to this guy. Otherwise, go to a dentist who will treat you with dignity. read more

I first scheduled an appointment with Dr. Vitalie back in May 2016 because of TMJD symptoms I was suffering with (headaches, dizziness, severe jaw pain, ear and neck pain, etc.). At this point I was desperate for any help at all because these symptoms and the pain were interfering with my day to day functioning, and it was a struggle to even make it through work. I was living with a heating pad on my jaw almost 24/7 and took ibuprofen daily for the migraines/headaches. The pain was unbearable! I didn't know if I would ever be able to care properly for my 3 year-old daughter or live a normal life. Dr. Vitalie is the person you want to see if you are suffering with TMJ issues!!!! I cannot express this enough. He is very well educated and trained to work with any TMJ problems you may have. I still cannot believe how lucky I am to have a TMJ specialist like him so close to where I live. At my first appointment he was able to get impressions of my teeth so that a special mouthpiece called an "orthodic" (similar to a night guard, but more fitted and specialized) could be made to wear 24/7 on my bottom teeth, which would help keep my bite in the correct position. The orthodic was ready in about 3 weeks (if I remember correctly), and within 5 minutes of wearing it, my dizziness and headaches were gone. Over the next month, my jaw pain was reduced to almost no pain at all. It is a little expensive and difficult to talk at first with the orthodic in, but after a week or so, you get used to it....and worth every penny once your feel the relief from it! In addition, after finding out that I was also having difficulty sleeping, Dr. Vitalie ordered me a home sleep study to see if I had sleep apnea. I was nervous about doing the sleep study by myself at home, but it was super easy to set up and use. It turned out that I did, in fact, suffer from sleep apnea, so last month I got impressions made for another mouth apparatus called a "MicrO2" to only be worn at night. It is worn on the top and bottom teeth and basically holds your jaw forward and helps open up your airway while you're sleeping. LOVE LOVE LOVE my MicrO2!!!!! Worth every penny again and I am finally sleeping at night!!! I could also not express enough gratitude to all of the staff at Dr. Vitalie's office. Everyone was very friendly, kind, and helpful. I am now able to live a normal life and manage my TMJ symptoms. Thank you to Dr. Vitalie and thank you to all the staff, I am so grateful for everything!! read more

I have been going to Dr. Vitalie for approximately 10 years. I first went for a cosmetic revamping which entailed veneers on my entire mouth. I was well pleased with results as well as the professional treatment I received from the entire staff. During a recent visit I happened to mention to Dr. Vitalie that I was having neck pain that was so sever that I was unable to turn my head without turning my entire body. He suggested we do a bite assessment. Long story short, he was able to adjust my bite using the tense machine and an orthodic devise and I am now virtually pain free! read more

If I could give him a lower score I would. I'll stArt by saying I had tooth pain for a few months before visiting him because I hit my two front teeth together, the first visit he tried selling me a thousand dollar mouth guArd to sleep with because he said the reason my teeth hurt is because I grind them when I sleep. Finally I went back a month later, still in pain and got a second X-ray of the tooth and demanded a root canal be done to kill the root because I couldn't stand the pain. The day of the root canal the office lost my appointment which should have been my queue there but he assured me he could still treat me that day. So after waiting 40 minutes they took me back and he numbed me with a local at which time I sat for another 30 minutes with him constantly saying between treating other patients that. He would be right with me. Then the root canal started, he was forceful, rushing and even after I asked for more novacane and a break he insisted on continuing. He broke a file off inside my tooth and then left again to treat another patient and I had to sit for another 30 minutes without being told anything. When he came back the novacane had worn off and he tried continuing and only after essentially yelling at him did he give me more. When he finished my tooth turned black by time I got home. Less than a week later it abscessed and now it needs to be removed and an implant placed which will cost over a grand. I wouldn't say it's out of the realm of possibility he did bad work on purpose just to have to fix it later. When I called his office he took no accountability and told me I signed a waiver releasing him of any responsibility of his work. I am also a teacher, I talked to students and other staff about what happened and several people and several had heard of him and gone to him and all of them said they had bad experiences with poor work and trying to be sold unnecessary treatments. I would never refer anyone to them unless I really hated them, he absolutely should not be practicing dentistry for not only doing bad work but also for trying to exploit his customers and solicit unnecessary prod ducts, you can totally see why the other reviews said about how his main priority is getting money and my whole encounter with him reflects that. Oh and my dentist found the initial cause of my pain, it was a hairline fracture above the gun which caused nerve damage, vitale told me twice before the root canal that nothing was wrong, with two separate X-rays. So if you read this and still go to get services there than you're a moron. Oh and I'm willing to put money down that any good reviews on the web are either him or his staff filling them out. read more