I'm writing this literally ten minutes after my emergency walk-in visit here. The stellar reviews on Yelp convinced me to come here and I regret that decision greatly at this point.
A little background: I started having severe pain on the left side of my mouth about a month ago. I went to a low cost dental practice (Smile Today on Shea Blvd) to get a first opinion on what was causing the pain. They charged me $25 for an exam and panoramic X-ray and advised that I had a bad wisdom tooth. They quoted me a fair price for an extraction and offered to do it in the office.
I came to discount dental today to get a second opinion and did not mention my previous diagnosis. The dental assistant broke the news to me that the exact same X-ray I paid $25 for at Smile Today was going to cost $115 here at "DISCOUNT Dental".
WTF?!?
DISCOUNT is in the name but clearly not relevant to the services they offer.
As someone who was desperate and in pain, I went ahead and shelled that out only to be given the same diagnosis by Dr. Rao (bad wisdom tooth). BUT instead of offering to extract it, like the dentist at Smile Today, he referred me to an oral surgeon because he lacks confidence in his own ability to extract the tooth since it's so far back into my mouth. He told me he "didn't want to take the risk" of not being able to get the entire tooth out.
So, to summarize I paid more than 4x the cost of the last X-Ray by what appears to be a less competent dentist who can't even resolve my issue.
I would NOT recommend this practice to anyone and I will shout from the rooftops to everyone I know about how unhappy I am to have been price gouged on an X-ray.