I took my children to an area dentist--a sweet woman who had a new, fancy practice. She was a recent dental-school grad. She seemed so kind.
She put four silver caps on my oldest child's teeth and two on my youngest child. My experience with her began to sour with each appointment. She treated me like a stage mom because I wanted to accompany my children (ages 4, 5) into the room and be there when they had their cavities filled and caps put on.
My intuition told me that something was just off, and when this dentist told me that my youngest had several MORE cavities that needed to be filled immediately--I decided to listen to my intuition. I told her that we would make an appointment after I checked my schedule.
Two weeks later, I called her office because I wanted to get a second opinion from another dentist. I requested that my daughter's files be sent to this other dentist. I was met with hostility and rudeness. I was told that I had to "settle up my bill" before the records could be released. This was bizarre. I had always paid my bills on time, but it took time for insurance to reconcile the bill and for the final bill to be sent to me. I hadn't even received a final bill yet.
I found this very odd. I told them that they needed to send those records over and that the other dentist would be waiting for them. I wasn't going to fight with these people.
I took my youngest to the new dentist--the one that supposedly had many cavities that had to be filled right now--because they were bad, deep cavities.
Guess what? The new dentist said that my daughter's x-rays were clean and that she had no cavities. Can you believe this?
It's been five years since this happened, and I still want to punch that dentist in the face. She put so many silver caps on my oldest child's teeth, and my youngest had two as well. She was about to put more on my youngest--until I stopped it.
So many people in our suburb think that this dentist is soooo sweet. I tell my friends what happened, but what else can a person do? I have a feeling that this freshly graduated "dentist" had high overhead from her finely detailed and decorated office--and probably student loans--and that she was performing unnecessary, expensive procedures to fund her job.
It's so very hard to watch your children get novocain, get their teeth drilled and be in pain. Now, I'll never know if any of it was for legitimate reasons.
That dentist may have a lot of people fooled, but I known what a dishonest, disgusting hack she is and if anyone ever comes forward or questions her--I will tell my story in a heartbeat.
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