With all the wonderful dentists across the river- why go here? I came in for a routine check-up/cleaning. I had a ""small"" cavity (I swear the dentist made this up to make money). When I came in to get it filled I had the worst experience. First, the doctor had me hanging out with the saliva suction thing in my mouth for over 5 min (not a long time? you try holding that thing in your mouth!). Than, she finally sat down, mumbled something and began to drill my tooth without any novacane! I told her to stop and she very rudely asked if I ""was sensitive to pain?"" I proceeded to tell her that I believed my threshold was average and she begrudgingly got the novacane. Than she starts digging the needle down into my gum and it feels like it's hitting my jaw bone. Finally she gets to the filling. For such a ""small"" filling she could not get it right. It was too high and needed to be fixed and I believe she messed up on the filling. I can deal with bad bedside manners, but now I'm dealing with a painful tooth where the filling was put (it was not hurting when I came in and I'm young with wonderful teeth, so upsetting!) as well as a painful jaw.\r
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I'm not going back to have her look at it. Rather, I'll be heading into the city to a highly recommend doctor to look at what she did. The reviews on this doctor make me very nervous. Her demenour is not nearly bad bedside manner, something is off (drugs? complete apathy? she just doesn't seem present).\r
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I read the bad reviews and still went in because I figured ""oh it's just a routine check-up/cleaning and these people prob had bad teeth or are high maintaince"". Well, a routine check-up for me had turned into a painful tooth, a pain in my jaw, taking numerous days off work, and exposure to radiation due to x-rays.
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