I was about to call and make an appointment with New York Dental Group after looking for a local dentist online, especially since they are so well reviewed.
I hadn't written down their number though so I Googled them again to get it and this time I actually started to read all the 5-star reviews for them.
After reading through all 17 5-star reviews I have come to believe that they are all fake. What lead me to this conclusion was a few different things. First, several of the reviews were left on the same date, which isn't impossible, but odd. Next, the language used in the reviews sounds promotional, like it was written by a sales rep and absolutely no specific situations or details are given in any of the reviews, which is normally what someone would be writing to convey, their own personal experience. Also, I found this phrase, ""front office staff"", used 4 different times throughout the many reviews, which seems odd that several different people would use that same phrase. Lastly, if you look at the other reviews left by all of the 5-star posters they are all for places in New York City, Brooklyn, and Yonkers, not from Vestal or Binghamton where you would presume these people would live. Also, several of the reviewers have also given 5-star reviews for dental offices in New York City only days after they had supposedly visited New York Dental Group!
It almost seems as though they hired some agency to give them good reviews, but who ever it was they hired did a really crappy job. I suspect they did this because the first three reviews they got, which are now buried under all the 5-star reviews, where only 1-star reviews. Unfortunately, I think the 1-star reviews are the only real ones.
I still would have tried this dentist, but not after I came to believe that all of their reviews are fake.
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