Quite possibly one of the worst dentist's visit's in my entire life!
Apparently, he didn’t read a single one of his nurse's notes after I'd told them that I had a very real fear of dentists.
He seemed put out when I asked questions about how he was referring to my teeth. He wouldn't specify what he felt was wrong with them, just saying that they were "bad", after I've recently seen two other dentists, and they said the teeth weren't bad … it was mostly the gums and below the gums that needed the work. He doesn't do dental surgery (and in fact isn't specialized in it, at all, but, he was saying that I needed three teeth pulled.
…After I was growing uncomfortable with the fact that he had his arms touching my face, and pressed my face into his hip while examining me, I politely told him that I was uncomfortable and I wanted him to speak to me a little less abrasively, because he was rudely commenting about me personally, and lack of care … not commenting on the condition of my teeth, or addressing medical issues.
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In the end, after I told him that I wouldn't *be* there if I weren't committed to fixing my gum problems he actually said that I was "wasting his time".
He's old, frail, and creepy … I can't imagine that a child would feel comfortable in his office, and even as an adult with fear of the dentist, *I* certainly didn't feel comfortable there, and his rudeness and arrogance only compounded the problem. He made it clear that he didn't care about my business because he made enough money off of other patients.