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| - DO NOT GO TO THIS DENTIST! I had a few bad experiences with this guy in the past, ranging from his incredibly shaky hands, to his attempting to sell me something almost every time I go. However, my most recent visit was so bad that I would never go to his office again. Let me preface this by saying it takes a lot for me to complain about a dentist, as I am not someone with a perfect set of pearly white teeth. But this guy is the worst and should not be allowed to practice.
I recently had bonding come off my front right tooth which I chipped over 10 years ago. The initial chip was about 1/3 of the tooth. Since I first chipped the tooth I believe the bonding has come off 2 or 3 times. Each time this would happen, I would go to my previous dentist and he fixed it good as new.
This concept seemed to be completely lost on Dr. Smiga. I am not sure if he is so old that he is out of touch with proper procedures, if he was trying to get more money, or if he is just ignorant to his practice. However, Dr. Smiga insisted that I needed a crown. While I had my mouth full of cotton and other devices, a clipboard was placed on my chest. I was told to review and sign the agreement for the $260 procedure. I repeatedly asked why this was necessary as I had never been told or recommended this by a prior dentist. I wanted to know why he could not simply repair it the way my prior dentists had. Dr. Smiga also told me that the repair could not be done on the same day and that I would have to wait weeks. This also made no sense to me because when I called I explained this was an emergency and I needed a normal looking tooth before the end of the week.
Rather than politely explaining his position to me, Dr. Smiga became visibly agitated that I was not willing to blindly follow his recommendation. He repeatedly told me that I was not doing things the right and proper way, in a very negative and aggressive tone. I tried explaining to him that I needed something by the end of the week, but he just could not understand this.
Eventually I convinced him to just go the bonding route. He took about 15 minutes to do the bonding. The end result of this was absolutely absurd. It is amazing to me that any human, much less one with dental training would have sent me home with a tooth looking the way mine did. I am convinced a person with no dental training could have done a better job. What I ended up with was a front tooth with bonding that looked in no way similar to what a tooth should look like. It was misshaped, out of position, and the complete wrong shade. He did not even attempt to use the proper shade of tooth, which meant I ended up with half of my front right tooth pearly white, while the rest of my teeth were a darker shade. He attempted to make it darker by buffing the tooth, but gave up soon after. His final words to me when I remarked about how awful it looked were, "No one is going to look at your tooth that closely". I was dumbfounded. I wish I would have taken photos of the tooth, but it was so ridiculous to look at that I did not want to be reminded.
On top of his horrendous job, his attitude was even worse. He eventually left the room without a word, groaning and moaning about how I needed to do things the right way. The bonding procedure was also pretty painful. It is my opinion that he either intentionally screwed up because he was upset I would not agree to do things his way, or he is just clueless. Either way it is unacceptable for a professional.
After leaving his office, and being horrified every time I looked in the mirror, I called my former dentist. He got me in the very next day. Not once did my old dentist mention anything about needing a crown. Instead, he simply did the bonding procedure that was done on prior occasions. It took him about 45 minutes to do the entire procedure because he actually took his time to do it correctly. He carefully went through what shade I thought would be best to match my other teeth. He grinded and crafted the tooth to be the perfect shape and fit. When done the tooth looked completely normal. Thankfully there are dentists that do things the right way, otherwise I would have looked like a clown all weekend.
I will never return to Dr. Smiga's office and I do not think he should have a license to practice dentistry.
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