Apopka Dentist: Cristene Maas DDS

I’ve been going to Dr. Maas practically my whole life and she has always been wonderful! Her staff is very friendly and they always take the time to answer all of my questions. Dr. Maas is always very gentle with me and I have never had any issues with her work. When I leave her office, my mouth feels brand new.

When I was a kid I had perfect teeth. I always had a perfect check up until I was 10 and my parents switched insurance companies. Which led to my family changing to a new dentist.
This new dentist needed, I don’t know but I’m assuming a new set of golf clubs, so he drilled our teeth. Yeah we switched dentists and went from ZERO cavities to four!
I fought it like a feisty kid would, but my Catholic mom threatened me with a switch and getting spanked with a switch ain’t no fun so I let them drill.
Turns out I was correct because six months later my parents switched back to the old dentist, for reasons which I will never know, but can assume.
When we went back to the old dentist he did the [facepalm] and told us that most likely the other dentist was just drilling for money and that he didn’t believe we had cavities.
[don’t worry, I’m getting to the end soon enough, just sit back and enjoy]
Years later I had another run in with another complete waste of space dentist who damaged my mouth yet again by doing unnecessary procedures.
So by now I’m gun shy about dentists.
So then I meet Dr. Maas who was nice and I happened to know her hygienist so I stayed there for many years but every time I was ready to leave the chair I got this sales pitch about my mouth was leaking mercury and I needed to have those old fillings out.
HA! Not going to fall for that one again!
I said no and for years I did the same routine every six months, NO. Nope. Nada. No Thanks! Maybe next time.
Until that one day I must have been sick or had a concussion and said YES!
So Dr. Maas did the drilling and had to make bigger holes in my teeth and then put in a resin.
Yummy.
You’d think that was it with the sales pitches? Nope.
Well I got tired of all the «buy this» and «do this» to my teeth so I left and went back to another dentist who I had used once before for an emergency tooth repair.
When I told him what I did he did the [facepalm] and said there is very limited leakage from old fillings and that it was this big hyped controversy.
I later searched and found that this dispute is really up in the air and there is no definite proof that the old fillings were unhealthy
My tiny little metal fillings would have most likely lasted me until I died of old age with out any issues from mercury.
I also found out that resin fillings don’t last as long and they also have an issue with a TOXIC leakage in to the mouth with Bisphenol A!
So needless to say I was left extremely unhappy about the entire procedure.

I have been going to Dr. Maas for many years for my dental needs. She is patient and answers all of my questions. The staff is super friendly and my appointments are always running on time. I highly recommend Apopka dentist Cristene Maas, DDS.