Tue 20 May 2008
Today I got a card in the mail from dentist Andy’s office. It says “Welcome” in the front and the inside is printed “Welcome to our office! We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for your recent visit to our office. We look forward to serving you again.” It is personally signed by everyone in the office — the receptionists, hygienists, the assistants, and of course Dr. Andy with a personal word of “Welcome!” written above his name. Paperclipped to the inside of the card is a credit card sized plastic pack of dental floss, on which is printed the dental offices’ business information. It just leaves a nice (squeaky clean) taste in a patient’s mouth.
I also received in the same bundle of mail a letter from the first scammer dental office. Sure the form letter thanks me for my recent trip to their office, that’s the first sentence. The rest of the page-long typed letter is about how I could “benefit from learning more about the various services provided by an Oral Surgeon,” which they defined as someone “specializing in tooth removal and jaw disorders.” I don’t have a jaw disorder! Then they urge me to schedule an appointment with their Oral Surgeon. Along with the letter they sent…not free dental floss but a brochure that tells me why I should get my wisdom teeth surgically removed. (Last week they also sent me an email cleverly giving me the top 10 reasons why I should let them remove my wisdom teeth, and the first reason was something about how even if wisdom teeth are healthy and not problematic, removing them would help prevent future problems that may occur on wisdom teeth. Well under THAT logic, why don’t I just get ALL my teeth pulled to prevent ALL future cavities?) The stupid thing is that this brochure is printed by the American Dental Association and not by this office, and it goes over different types of problematic wisdom teeth with diagrams, and I DON’T HAVE ANY OF THOSE ISSUES!
I hate the scammer dental office.
i went to a dentist office that was not only a scammer, but also creepy. a friend of a friend was the office manager at this place for a short time, and she told us that there was this secret side room that the dentists (they were brothers) would go into for extended periods of time. nobody — not even the assistants or hygienists — were allowed in there. i’m getting the creeps just thinking about them. *shiver* this was the first dentist that i went to after leaving my childhood dentist, and i was young and dumb at the time. i let them scare me into getting some work done that, in retrospect, was probably not necessary. (expensive) lesson learned.
i’m happy to say that now that i’m old and less dumb, i have a fabulous dentist that i absolutely love.
Free Dental floss–yea!!! Sounds like the scammer dental office is just after $$$$$
flip flop – secret forbidden room? sounds like a movie! That’s like the Legend of Blackbeard’s Castle (or Bluebeard?), but in reality it’s probably just where they stash the cash or meds and didn’t trust their employees around it. I’m so curious!
Flat Coke – oh, totally. My initial red flag was the dentist telling me she wants to surgically remove my wisdom teeth, and even tho I told her that I wasn’t interested in unnecessary dental surgery and my wisdom teeth are fine, never gave me problems, they’re still pushing it. Tooth extraction surgery must be extremely lucrative.