My childhood dentist(actually up to 35 yrs. of age) was a family friend but not a very good dentist. He was a big, roly, poly man with hands like a blacksmith. He just could not do delicate work. He'd always say, "No the cavities aren't ready yet." What he meant was he needed them to be a major part of the tooth before he'd attempt working on them.
He didn't use novacaine but that was okay with me, I was more scared of needles then, than pain. He did some very unusual dentistry. He would drill from one tooth to a neighboring one and have the filling start at one tooth and finish at the next one. Looked like he was connecting legos. I'm on my fourth dentist since him.
Dentist I had after him was great but, unfortunately retired after about a year of me seeing him. He was the best, I would have followed him anywhere. Also let me make payments to him when I could and not need a credit company. Had him paid off before the work was completed.
The dentist that took over his practice was horrible. The PA dentist that followed was too.
Dentist I see now isn't bad BUT, very poor business practices. For instance I was in the chair waiting for him to install 4 tooth bridge and he just disappeared. He had a new patient and was showing her, his art gallery. He had a zillion pictures he had bought off the internet- and rooms and rooms filled with them.
I was there so long, the senior bus dispatcher sent the driver over to look for me. In that one visit for the bridge, he used up the entire insurance limit for the year. So I haven't seen him since. My new insurance period will start in May so I will try to get an appt. for then. I hope in the year in between, I haven't developed any expensive problems.
So bad!
