I would not recommend Dr Bottenbley at all. He told my husband his pain was due to his wisdom teeth and they should be removed. And Dr. Bottenbley told him he had to charge an additional over $500 ""risk assessment fee"" that could not be put through insurance to make sure we ""understood this was a risky procedure."". I called him to discuss the fee and his response was ""You can pay it, you're a lawyer."" Offensive and rude. The woman I called at BCBS had never heard of such a fee but that it was the drs right to do so. \r
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The next oral surgeon my husband went to (thank goodness we got a second opinion) quickly diagnosed his pain as TMJ and said the his wisdom teeth were encased in bone and were not causing him pain all of a sudden at age 40. He showed my husband on the XRay where there was obvious TMJ degeneration. He also said my husband would likely have had a lifetime of complications with his sinuses if he had had his wisdom teeth removed...I guess it was a ""risky procedure."" Im just glad we didn't listen to Dr Bottenbley!\r
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Besides making a mistake, which I acknowledge, happens, he was rude and this risk assessment fee is IMHO BS.
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