Going to the dentist is never pleasant, but it is even worse when your dentist spends the whole time she is working on you complaining about the temp at the front desk. I would rather have someone chat at me, asking me questions they know I can't answer, or even just work quietly, but she spent the whole time venting.
If that was it, I could put up with it, especially for the price (at the time I didn't have insurance), but when I needed a filling things started going downhill very quickly. She put the filling in, and within a day, I started having pain in the recently filled tooth. I thought I was just sore, so I waited a little while, but I couldn't even chew on that side of my mouth. Finally, after a couple of weeks, I went back. She rudely insisted that it was my fault, that I had, obviously, cracked it on something. When I said, ""that is always possible, but it DID start hurting RIGHT after you put the filling in,"" she said that maybe my tooth just didn't ""take"" to the amalgam filling. She said she would remove it and put a traditional metal filling in instead. (Note: I had paid extra from the amalgam.)
So she drilled out the original filling, insisting the whole time that, most likely, I had cracked it, then, with the old filling drilled away, she admitted that the problem was another cavity that she hadn't seen. She drilled that one too, and filled both cavities with a metal filling. She never apologized for blaming me.
I just got back from my new dentist who is appalled at the state of that one tooth. He says all my teeth look good, and that it is weird to have one tooth that has been so drilled out. Now I need to get a crown for that one tooth, and I am so irritated it prompted me to write this review.
DON'T GO TO DR. MOORADIAN. SHE IS TERRIBLE!
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