George Psaltis, DMD

Overall positive experience, Dr. G takes the time needed to explain the work and the approach. Current fillings need some adjustments but he has offered to do that work free of charge and he gave me a complimentary teeth whitenting, so thanks, doc!

The WORST DENTIST IN NYC!!!
I warn anyone who is planning on going to see him — STAY FAR AWAY!!!
First of all, he is a snake, a thief and a liar. I had a cleaning done by his assistant who is probably the least educated assistant in the world. She had no idea what she was doing, she might have gone to school in another country back in the 60’s and has had no continuing education since then. He asked her to hand him tools and she kept giving him the wrong ones.
But thats not all folks, He is also completely incompetent and everything he touches can be considered malpractice and I realized this because half of the equipment he was using was not sealed in sterile bags. I know from other dental offices, that everything is sealed in a sterile bag, its not just pulled out of a dirty drawer and used in a patients mouth. Thank god, I only had a cleaning done, and he wanted to try and get X-​rays done but I immediately said I had to go and cancelled the following appointment. I know he is also a very dirty human being because as I was putting on my jacket and closing up with the front desk, he came out and started degrading the front desk girl (I think her name was Demi). Im completely appalled by this shallow, uneducated, snake oil salesman type of shady Dr., and I warn anyone and anyone who cares about their oral health to stay very far away from him. He is a crook. I can’t believe that the upper west siders have not sued the crap out of him and shut him down yet. I would be willing to join a class action lawsuit against him based on what I witnessed/​experienced. Not to mention that he did also try to charge my insurance for x rays that were not done so I made sure to call them and tell them about that.
Bottom line is, there are thousands of other dentists in Manhattan, stay as far away from this one who claims he is a dentist, he is not. He is a fraud.

Recently transplanted from Los Angeles, I was worried in the search of finding a new dentist. Let me preface this review with I am a big scaredy cat when it comes to going to the dentist, always have been! Right from the start Dr. Psaltis and his team have made me feel comforted, cared for and completely safe. Each visit has eased my discomfort and fear. Thank you Dr. Psaltis so very much for your compassion and extreme gentle care of my teeth and of me!

Dr. Psaltis and his Hygienist were extremely nice and professional, front desk staff was sweet also. My cleaning was superb. I have read the other reviews and I hope I never have a bad experience, but until then I will definitely be a patient of Dr. Psaltis.

If there was a way to give Mr. Psaltis ZERO stars I would. He is one of the worst dentists that I have ever been to. To start, he is very rude to his assistant and kept yelling at her in a very angry tone while cleaning my teeth. At least do it in private when you are yelling at an employee.
Additionally, he is professionally incompetent. I went to see him for an ordinary cleaning after noticing that my gums bled whenever I would brush my teeth. I mentioned this to him and he insisted that this was normal. While performing the cleaning, I also bled and he again said this was normal. I don’t need an MD to tell me there is something wrong here, folks.
So after dealing with my gums bleeding for a few more months, I decided to see another dentist. I was told that I had gum disease and that I needed to have a serious root planing and scaling done. I was told that whoever my last dentist was should have noticed this and that it would be borderline professional malpractice to not have done something. I mean, how does a dentist not know when a patient has gum disease when their gums are bleeding during a cleaning?
I would tell anyone to stay away from this guy. He is not a professional and is lucky to still be in in business. STAY AWAY!!!

He is the worst dentist I’ve ever had the displeasure of seeing. I’ve been stewing over whether or not to write a review for over a month; but given that it was based on Unilocal that I went to see him (I have received a lot of great advice from Unilocal), I decided I should do others the service of providing a review. To be fair to Unilocal,the higher rated dentists in the area were all booked two months out or over the top expensive — I guess you get what you pay for, and buyer beware when it’s cheap and available on short notice:
1) Yes, he was really rude/​harsh to his assistant.
2) He was late to see me though there wasn’t any in the office (other patients) perhaps there was a reason, but he didn’t offer one or an apology.
3) The x-​rays were terrible — they used some strange loop brace (I’ve never seen this before). He kept insisting that my jaw had broken, because there was a strange halo effect on the x-​ray (funny it was the exact same shape as the loop). I’ve never had my jaw broken — I think I’d know and I think my home town dentist would have noticed it. Hummm, maybe the line was caused by the loop brace thingy that he made me hold in my mouth. The conversation was just bizarre.
4) His cleaning was subpar — I’ve having it redone.
5) As he was checking my teeth and yelling out notes to his assistant (about which teeth needed what) he would twist around to talk to her and because it was comfortable to him, he would exert extra pressure on my gums, then let it off as he turned back, scrapped along my gum line and went to the next tooth — I’m not sure if I can explain this right, but basically the pain was caused by his lack of care not because it was a necessary part of the process. And yes, I did ask him to let up (and not push down when was turning around) … twice.
6) He told me how the work my dentist has done was terrible and had caused a lot of trouble — again I’ve seen other dentist since my home town dentist did the work and no one said this before.
7) He ordered a lot of work to be done, I kept telling him that I didn’t have insurance and would need to schedule it as I could pay for it, but he insisted that I come the next week and told the assistant to book the appointment. I requested that she call me with an estimate of the cost and we schedule then. She said she would call the next day… but I never heard from them again. Which is fine, because I walked out there feeling pretty put-​off, none-​the-​less, it’s bizarre that they didn’t even call to review the costs and options. It’s that part of the service I had paid for???

An apple a day may drive the doctor away, but when you are stuck with a bad tooth, nothing appeases the pain better than the idea of compassion. But there’s a reason why dental visits are to be avoided like a drill on plaque: Because dentists and compassion don’t go together.
George Psaltis, DMD, defies this stereotype. It is not his excellent qualifications that raise the bar on the dental experience, but rather one understated trait: his zodiac. Pisces people are known for their warmth and understanding. True to his Piscean nature, George Psaltis listens, commiserates, and makes you laugh until you forget your troubles – and once you have, he slowly and painlessly eases them away, with the aid of his dental expertise and easy handling of terrifying dental paraphernalia.
Because words cannot describe the excellence of George Psaltis, I will attempt here to represent my own experience in pictures:
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… PAIN: The only real motivation to ever visit a dentist in the first place. I couldn’t take my beautiful eyes looking like the Internet symbol anymore, and so I got the guts and made the dreaded call.
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— - DOUBT: The pain decreased as I ran late to my appointment, and for a second, I considered running back in the opposite direction. But, it was a personal test, and my prideful determination to succeed wouldn’t let me give up. That, and I had just bought these luscious Jacques Torres cookies that I really craved, so a functional set of teeth was a necessity.
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~ FEAR: I took a deep breath, and upon walking in and remembering the whiteness of the dental office walls that I had last visited years before, I gulped, and wondered if maybe the cookies were cold now and throwing them away wouldn’t be such a big loss really.
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O MEMORIES: But before I could make my escape, the dental assistant smiled sweetly at me and handed me a form to fill out. My knees buckled, and I fell on the seat and blindly filled out my information as I remembered my previous dental experiences – something resembling a bullet shot straight in the face.
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~ RELIEF: Not just in seeing the smiling dentist’s empathetic face but also in realizing that he held no gun or powerful drill as he extended his hand in greeting. Thanks to his kind demeanor and gentle use of tools and teeth – as well as the oh-​so-​fine invention of anesthetics – my third molar extraction was painlessly over within minutes.
And thanks to George Psaltis himself, the cookies tasted just as good as the apple I bite into now as I sit here recollecting my experience. My only regret is that I didn’t keep the tooth to throw over a roof later for good luck. But with a superb dentist like this, I need no luck – not when it comes to this fine pair or choppers, at least.

The deal breaker for me was when I witnessed him berating/​yelling at his assistant while cleaning my teeth. She came back in tears. NOT cool.