Raul Velazquez, DMD

I first met Raul Velazquez nearly 10 years ago when I was looking for a dentist to safely remove my leaking mercury fillings. I didn’t know back then just how important oral health was to the rest of the body. My knowledge grows with each visit as he explains the «why» and «how» of my different dental problems. He is excellent with children of all ages and has seen my two kids as well as my husband for over 7 years. Dr. V has dealt with complicated cases that both my husband and son have brought to him. His concern about the long-​term health of the patient, along with expert work on the teeth is what keeps my whole family coming back year after year. He will not put toxic materials in your mouth, is careful to control pain, will not give you any surprises financially and his facility is beautiful, relaxing and very clean. Finally, I appreciate that he continues to learn himself, attending the latest seminars on holistic dentistry and keeping current on research and options for treating his patients..

My favorite dentist ever. He is focused and honest and down to earth. I have tried so many dentists and I feel he is the most honest and skilled. You can feel he truly loves the work and really is meant to be a dentist. Dentistry feels very aligned with his entire being.

I’ve known Dr. V. for a few years and have had nothing but positive experiences with him. He really cares about my welfare and does his best to find the least invasive procedures and least expensive ways to treat me. He spends a good amount of time talking with you and explaining what is to be done and why. This is good and bad in that you really understand and feel comfortable knowing what is going on, but it can make him a little late for the appointment. This is unlike most other dentists I have experienced who typically work on two patients at the same time bopping back and forth. Not the case with Dr. V.
He treats the body very holistically and explains the connection between other issues in the body and how they relate to the teeth.
I highly recommend Dr. Velazquez.

Heck Yeah! My Dentist… keeps my teeth clean and fixes when they break down. He’s better than your dentist. If you are thinking of making a change, make Dr Velasquez your first phone call.

I’ve seen Dr. Velazquez twice, the first time was after a horrible oral surgeon Dr. Levy at Culver Del Rey Dental numbed me up then asked me to sign some documents. I read the documents and read that they would do a bone graft with human or animal bone, I lost it. I was furious and so upset that this «Dr.» would numb me up before he handed me the document to sign.
I wanted a Holistic Dentist and Dr. Velazquez happened to be in my area (so grateful). I went in for my first visit and he did not take X-​Rays (my choice) I was able to take the most recent ones from my last dentist visit at CDRDental. I think most traditionally trained Dentist X-​Ray the heck out of us and say the radiation levels are miniscule and not harmful and that Fluoride is good for you.
Dr. Velazquez does not use Fluoride and in my case where Dr. Levy said I needed surgery Dr. Velazquez advised I try some natural regimen at home to see if my issue would clear up on its own and if it didn’t he could go in do something that would take care of this issue without doing bone grafting surgery. I was happy that he didn’t immediately try to recommend surgery.
A year later (recent), I went back to Dr. Velazquez, for teeth cleaning and get an estimate to remove my last two Mercury Fillings aka Silver fillings that I’ve had since a kid. They cleaned my teeth, and the issue I had before where the other Dr. wanted to do surgery, I no longer needed it. My issue was gone due to my diet change only eating fish, chicken and turkey once in a while and eating Electric Foods, NO HYBRID foods. So, I decided to get my fillings removed and replaced with the Porcelain fillings.
Dr. Velazquez performed tests on me to make sure that my body would be compatible with the «numbing juice» and the material he was replacing my Mercury fillings with. I was very impressed that he cared to see if the medication and new fillings would affect me in any way.
He gave me (2) Chlorella tablets with water before he began anything (which consolidates any possible Mercury exposure so that I could urinate it out of my system). I knew Mercury was extremely dangerous but when I saw Dr. Velasquez and his very nice assistant cover up as if they were in a war zone. Breathing masks and goggles I realization hit me that I had been living with this deadly metal in my mouth for years and that was scary.
They covered me up as well, breathing mask for my nose and goggles for me too. They isolated my (2) teeth with some sort of solid net that covered the rest of my mouth so that when extracting the Mercury no debris would fly into my mouth. WOW!
I appreciate the care that Dr. Velazquez and his office showed me. I recommended two other co-​workers that also want their Mercury Fillings removed and told them the care I received and they definitely want to see Dr. Velazquez.

Where to begin?! I found my dentist 12 years ago at another practice, which he left because he believed they were using a cheap laboratory and here I am 12 years later in need of a crown, having even worse of an experience!!!
12 yrs ago he blamed the fact that the crown didn’t cover my entire tooth on the laboratory and now when he did the job at his office, he says «the tooth is covered, it’s the root, you’re fine, trust me.» Then he starts drawing the tooth trying to explain and convince me that I’m fine, while I can clearly feel with my tongue that my tooth is uncovered even more than the first one was, which gave me a horrible pain and sensitivity for 2 years.
After few days of rather discomforting sensitivity and pain, he says to come back to adjust my bite — «It’s your bite, not your tooth» —- well… while a bite might had to do with the pressure that it gave me because it was too high, the sensitivity was getting worse. I came back and he said «I don’t want to drill into the tooth because it is still inflamed and I don’t want you to have to have a root canal.» What?! He put on a crown that I said did not fit, then he adjusted the bite and refused to take the crown off, so I had to come back 2 wks later again for him to finally hear me say the same thing and take it off. Then we ran into the holidays and him giving me drama about his lab — he was suspicious that the guy drinks on the job. WTF! I don’t need to know this. At the end of the day, I am a paying customer and to pay $ 1500 for this half ass job, this is not acceptable.
I had to call his office and deal with his obnoxious rude assistant who should go learn some class from other doctors’ offices to see how they treat their patients! Clean and nice office, great bedside manner, but the most terrible staff and unprofessional business approach. This is not easy to write after knowing Dr. V for 12 years and having built a friendship but I am a paying customer who had to deal with getting a simple crown done for 3 months! I had to switch my unpaid time off from work many times and couldn’t sign up for continued ED on time because of this drama and his un-​capable assistant who shouts the card number at you as he’s in your mouth, after all this!
Chewing on one side for 3 months made my other tooth chip in the meantime! When I came back for the new crown, there was no «sorry», nothing! Just «oh, I forgot to charge you for January, which card should I use!!!»
I contacted them in hopes to not have to escalate the issue further but just like with their previous approach, they never bothered to even call back. Probably too busy dealing with a drunk lab guy. Incredible. Avoid! If you want a crown, you should at least have options between labs and materials. The worst customer service amongst any doctors I have ever been to, sadly to say.

I am very happy with the crowns Dr. Velazquez did on me, they look and feel so natural.