Bernard J Pallares, DDS

I went here to get my teeth cleaned and had no issues my first year. However, during routine teeth cleaning the year after, they chipped off some of my filling. Dr. Pallares told me «Just come back next week and I’ll take care of it.» I asked questions about time and procedure, which were answered.
During my return visit, Dr. Pallares told me that he would use white colored filling material rather than the existing silver colored one, for cosmetic reasons. I figured that since I was already there I might as well replace the other silver ones as well. He advised me that the silver ones were more durable and that there was no reason to replace them, but he that would do the two or three small ones that were on the surface.
A few weeks later, I received a bill from the dentist. It turns out that fillings are charged per surface, even if they are on the same tooth. To be fair, I believe this is standard industry practice, and I didn’t ask about the cost and wrongly assumed «he would take care of it» meant something else entirely. This is why I didn’t give them one star.
However, it’s been a few years and I was reminded of this over the weekend when the topic of bad dentist experiences came up. The way is see it, it’s unfair for me to pay for the dentist’s mistake. I wish he would have clarified costs with me when we were going over filling options. Instead, I felt that he deterred me from replacing the main fillings and instead only did the «cosmetic ones» that were very minor and took the least amount of his time, even though the costs were the same as the large ones.
An experience that still leaves a bad taste in your mouth many years after the fact is subpar at best. Stay away!