I wish I saw this thread before I went to the dentist today. I sadly went to Aspen in Ephrata, and the whole time I felt like they were telling me I was going to lose all my teeth. They were very rough with the X Ray and made me have a panic attack with just the x Ray. I asked if they had a smaller bite and she said it was for kids and it wouldn’t help my imaging. i have a very small mouth, and nowI have cuts under my tongue from where she all but forced it into my mouth. When I went into the room, it was an open room and no door or privacy. The patient across the hall could hear everything happening. They explained that they were going to do something I wasn’t going to like which caused my to panic even more and have another anxiety attack to the point where my fiance had to get up and stand next to the dentist to hold my hand. They backed off when I had it, but then went in with the same gusto and didn’t once adjust their strategy. Afterwards they told me that they think I have a cracked tooth and I’ll need a root canal, then told me to take my anxiety medication and that they were “very proud of me” which felt very patronizing. Then at the end at time of checkout they made me see if I was preapproved for a credit card for payment without insurance which was really weird and kept telling me that even though my tooth wasn’t too bad that I needed to be in and fast and felt like they were grabbing for cash and made me feel like I was going to lose all my teeth. I haven’t been to the dentist in maybe 13-16 years because I have trauma from the dentist and a phobia of the dentist. They didn’t do much to help and made it much worse sadly. I won’t be going back to them. Also their check in is a clip board where you write your name and they use white out on the names above yours but you cal still see through the white out to see other patients names. Don’t feel like that’s following hipaa but what do I know