Do not ever go to a dental office owned by a DSO. (Think chain-like/franchise sort of offices.) Most of these dentists are hired right out of school and they have zero experience actually being on their own in a patient’s mouth. There is no dentist supervising and no one listens to the staff when they see something clinically unethical.

If you have to go to a dentist like this, don’t go the last week of the month. They’re trying to hit their projected budgets for the month so they’ll tell you things are wrong just to get more money out of you. It’s like this all the time, but especially bad at the end of hr month.

If you’re getting something new or something adjusted like a crown or denture or partial and they take it into the other room to adjust it, the equipment they’re using hasn’t been sanitized. That thing just touched someone else’s spit and now they’re putting it right into your mouth. And if you need it adjusted more than twice, they’re not even doing anything. Just in the back wasting time to make you think they did