James D Meinert, DDS

Never have I been so impressed with a dental office! Dr. Meinert and Staff were super helpful and very friendly! The office was clean and I enjoyed the huge windows in the room over looking downtown. I will definitely be taking my family here.

Great staff, great atmosphere and great dentist!
Highly recommended. That assistant Samantha if funny and great! Very knowledge and helpful

I have been going here for about 15 years since I was in college. I think the staff are great and I feel I can trust the dentist in that he won’t tell me to have things done that don’t need done.

I wish I had read the reviews first, after two years of going here I finally decided it was time for my family to leave. The cleanings were never very good and the dentist always seemed to find problems where there were none. The last time I was there, he needed to rebond a tooth. He spent only 15 minutes on it, it stuck out strangely and fell out of my mouth 5 days later. It took a month to get reimbursed, Also, they kept sending us bills when really they ended up owing us money for over billing. To top it off, the dentist is rude and does not deal well with patients.

Due to a change in insurance I came here very soon after being seen at Davis Smiles Dentistry, where I received an inadequate cleaning. Here, they cleaned my teeth excellently and gave me proper advice, rather than focusing on selling me an expensive ceramic crown for a sideways molar that I can neither chew with nor reach with a brush. I found Dr. Meinert immensely more trustworthy and professional.

Hygienist staff is great but the office staff (particularly billing) is rude and unhelpful. Dr Meinert seems nice but always seems rushed when I actually get to see him.

Pathetic service. My first appointment was a cleaning, X-​rays and checkup. The rooms are creepy, without proper walls and doors, it was like having dental work in an office cubicle, and the place smelled like cheese. Old cheese. The hygienist was just completely unpleasant to be near, let alone have her hands in my mouth. She stunk. Both body odor and bad breath. Really bad breath. Poor demeanor, poor dental cleaning skills. I honestly could not wait to get away from her. When Dr. M came in he acted as completely disinterested in me both as a customer and a patient. I told him of a tooth that was causing me discomfort, He looked at X-​rays, talked about this and that and left without recommending a treatment. I sat there a bit and the hygienist escorted me to the front. The receptionist was busy texting on her phone and I waited for her to finish and she began to check me out, then the office manager returned from wherever, huffing and puffing about this and that and was so nervous being in her presence made me want to be anywhere that was not next to her. She said Dr. M had told her to schedule me for a crown. I told her he hadn’t told me that, so she flounced back down the hall to get him and he came up front, obviously perturbed, and acted like he was doing me a huge favor to explain my treatment plan, none of which included the tooth that was causing me discomfort. I agreed to the plan, scheduled the initial appointment, then they said I would have to have a temp. filling for THREE WEEKS! So I scheduled the second appt. for 3 weeks later. I was very uncomfortable with this entire situation and can not believe it takes that long to get a crown made. Where do they get them, India??? I went home extremely unhappy with the ENTIRE experience. I called the next day and cancelled the two appointments. Over the next month, the office manager called no less than ten times to try and schedule the appointments again, each time sounding more and more aggravated that I would not schedule the appointment. Finally I told her I would call them if I wanted to schedule an appointment and to leave me alone.
Four months later I went in for another cleaning. My appointment was at 8am so I was there 15 minutes early like they said. No one was there and the door was locked. At the stroke of 8, Ms. Text Messenger showed up and began unlocking the door. I asked her if she was from Dr M’s office and she said yes. I told her I had an appointment at 8 and she said ok. I told her it was impossible to keep an 8 am appointment with me if they didn’t open the office BEFORE 8. She just glazed over like I had just asked her to explain the theory of relativity in pig latin. Then she said «we have to park way over there». I told her I didn’t care where they parked, my appointment was for 8am. Then she point across the street and says“it’s fine, I see one of the hygienists now”, to which I replied. It’s not fine. I am not going to sit here and get treated like garbage, cancel my appointment and forget about ever seeing me again.
If you have one shred of self respect you will not condone the horrid practices of this sham of a business. What a complete and undeniable joke this practice is.
You’ve been warned

I was a patient of Dr. Meinert a few years back and the only thing I didn’t like about his practice was him. His office location is pretty cool and his support dental staff were just wonderful which is why i give him three stars, but him… meh.
Several times I asked him questions that he flat out just ignored, and its not like I was talking his ear off, just had one or two questions about my teeth. I guess he thinks that a dental god like himself doesn’t need to bother himself with responding to a patients questions.
At my last visit he basically told me i had a ton of cavaties and «problem teeth», saying they looked good superficially but i would need lot of dental work probably my whole life. Understandably I was a bit taken aback by that. Especially since he clearly wasn’t going to take the time to explain himself… after that I switched dentists and since then I have had several great dentist all of whom when I ask about my «problem teeth» say that they have no clue what he was talking about.
Oh and all those cavaties i had? Its been several years and dentists later and they have yet to materialize! Infact the Dr I saw immediatly following Dr. Mienert said he was going to have to re-​take all the x-​rays that got sent over from his office since they were so low quality he couldn’t use them.

I can’t say enough good things about this place. Great Doctor, with an absolutely amazing support staff. They actually treat their patients like individual people, and they don’t try and sell you services you don’t need.
My kids were going to a different dentist in Vacaville because it’s closer to where we live. We had a really bad experience with them (I left them a review as well! :) and I ended up dropping in on Dr. Meinert because the vacaville dentist couldn’t help us. Even though he was fully booked he took the time to peek in my kids mouth and let me know what was going on.
Someone in another review said the office «looked old»…that’s silly. I learned the hard way that a super nice office doesn’t mean anything. A super nice office is how my kid ended up with a dental issue Dr. Meinert had to fix. And the billing/​support staff are wonderful. I drive from Vacaville to go there.

Just had my semi-​annual cleaning done here. I’ve been coming to Dr. Meinert’s office for over 10 years, and I have to disagree with the other reviewers take. They are a very modern dentist office, with the latest equipment. I spoke with one of the Hygienists about the poor review, and she reported that the office staff met about that and are taking the criticism seriously. Personally, I never have seen any of the problems the other reviewer mentioned,. She did tell me that the few things you find covered in plastic are for the patients protection, and explained to me how this is much more sanitary than the alternative.
I’m dental-​phobic, but the staff here makes me feel very comfortable every time I go in. As I said, I’m a long-​standing patient, I drive all the way from Vacaville to go to this office, and I will probably continue to go here forever. These 5 stars are deserved!

Old office, everything is covered with plastic. Staff will put their fingers in your mouth, touch the keyboard, then put their fingers back in your mouth. Not very sanitary. Dentist was neutral, however the staff that works with billing is absolutely terrible. They try to find excuses for you to come back so they can bill you over and over again. Terrible experience, definitely go to a different dentist if you can.