Berman and Platt DDS

I canceled an appointment and Dr. Platt advised that it will be a $ 25 charge and I received a bill for $ 67.10. Each time I go for an appointment with Dr. Platt he always charges me $ 400 with dental insurance which I already have. Cleanings turn out to be done with 2 appointments instead of 1. Stay away from Dr. Platt! He over charges you and I believe he tries to get as much money as he can out of you. I would not recommend anyone to go to him.

First, just want to note that Unilocal in error lists Jeffrey Platt, DDS as a Dental Surgeon, when he is in General Dentistry.
My husband has been a long-​time patient, and I joined as a patient when we married two years ago, assuming he was a good dentist who would never compromise my efforts to be as healthy as possible since he is also a vegan. That has turned out to be a very poor assumption. I am giving him the lowest possible rating because of a shocking recent experience.
I have some areas of gum recession that cause inflammation to flare up from trapped bacteria. Dr. Platt recommended that I have these areas below the gum line «bonded» with a resin-​type material. I took his advice on two such areas late in December 2012, and the result was fantastic. However, a similar gum inflammation flared up a week later on an adjacent molar with a cap and root canal, so I made another appointment to get it fixed the same way on ½/​2013. This simple procedure turned out to be a big mistake with long-​term health ramifications for me.
Instead of doing the same resin bonding he did on the other two, WITHOUT INFORMING ME, he decided to use another type filling which a subsequent dentist (with a 100% approval rating on
) told me contained MERCURY. At the time, Dr. Platt just told me he used «a different material» that would bond better to the cap. You can imagine how upset I was when I learned what it contained because I take great care to avoid mercury in my mouth and in my diet. I even take an ultra-​purified Omega-​3 fish oil supplement to avoid that highly toxic metal!
Because the inflammation in my gum did not subside quickly as it did the other times after this same procedure, I returned to his office on 1÷11÷2013 as he had recommended. He examined the tooth again with his new filling and then told me that I had decay under the cap — and probably needed that root canal redone. In fact, he told me that according to his notes, he had told me before he did this filling that I had decay under that cap and that I had refused his recommendation to replace it. I could not believe my ears — or my eyes when he showed me his notes. This man cannot communicate effectively!
Nine days earlier, he had x-​rayed that tooth and said he found no decay or problem with the root canal. He did say, however, that replacing the cap would be a permanent solution to the gum recession problem on that tooth — and that sometimes there could be a little decay under the cap so he usually recommends replacing it. Yet, he did not strongly recommend it, and he certainly did not say there was decay under the cap! To me, decay is like cancer. I don’t play around when I have it.
He gave me two options, one more permanent (and much more costly) than the other. I simply chose the less expensive filling because it had worked so well on two other teeth with the same problem. Had he told me he strongly suspected decay, I would have had him investigate it further and possibly replace that cap. He did not. In fact, the problem turned out to be not some hidden decay or inflamed root, but simply that big pieces of his new special material filling had fallen out, creating more gaps to trap bacteria as before and causing the inflammation to return.
Next business day, I went to Dr. Saccoh in Joppa to get a second opinion and learned what was really going on. Fortunately, that same night, the rest of that dark, toxic filling fell out (after just 2 weeks), and Dr. S cleaned the rest of it out pretty easily and replaced it with a resin filling — for $ 30 less. He did an AP x-​ray to be sure the root tips were not infected, he was not concerned at all about there being any hidden decay, and he did a resin filling. Even though Dr. Platt later left word for me that he had used a glass ionomer type filler, it was very, very dark and seemed to have a LOT of silver metal mixed into it. D. S said he was certain it contained MERCURY, and he disposed of it accordingly as it is considered extremely Hazardous Material.
Unfortunately for me, I swallowed probably half of that filling, which bonded terribly to the cap, because I never even suspected it was my new filling! I thought it was just pieces of walnut shells I was eating several times that week. This could seriously affect my health one day. So, I no longer have any trust in Dr. Platt. He communicates very poorly. His preferred filling material did not even last a month, and he was not forthcoming with me when I asked about the filling material he used. Furthermore, if I had used the referral he gave me, I would have wasted $ 110 to be seen by an endodontist unnecessarily. Instead, I received a refund from Dr. Platt and sought a 2^nd opinion from a highly rated dentist — who is now my and my husband’s new dentist. Please just beware!