I walked into the dentist for the very first time with close to no previous dental history. I was of course nervous. But my top left wisdom tooth is coming in and the pain is absolutely unbearable.
For $55 I got the exam and x-ray, which showed that my wisdom tooth was on top of a tooth that was already severely damaged. Their solution was to remove the goner tooth and let the wisdom tooth come in and replace it. He placed the gel medication on my tooth to numb it, then put a series of Novocaine injections into my gums. I didn't feel it at all but I did end up tasting a lot of it, which I will get to later. He took extreme care to make sure that I was in no pain. He acknowledged the other problems in my mouth but only focused on what needed to be done that day and set up another appointment for a later date. He explained everything that he was going to do before he did it and calmed me down.
There was absolutely no problems with my tooth extraction. He tried pulling on it but ultimately had to split it into two or three sections and break it through that way. It sounds painful but I barely even felt the pressure.
The female dental assistant and/or dentist that helped him was great. When the clamps dug into my bottom lip (not medicated so the stretching did hurt) she massaged my bottom lip and gums and was there to suck up every drop of blood and droplet of medication that trickled onto my tongue the second she found out I had a bad gag reflex. She was amazing.
Afterwards, because he knew there would be a wait for my Vicodin prescription, he even gave me another shot or two of Novocaine. Which turned out to be perfect because Walmart was not speedy about it.
I am now at home, WITH a prescription of 20 pills, with clear printed out instructions on what to expect after surgery and even a meal plan of soft foods to buy from the store.
This is the only dentist I will go see. I saw another review on this site discuss Dr. Sergey and that is not the dentist that I had. I am sure that the experience at Kamilche Dental Center changes depending on who you see and what you are there for.
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