Iris Zuckerman,DDS

*Update– before having the opportunity to schedule the surgery on my gums… The post and crown Dr. Zuckerman put in and improperly «sealed» fell out. It just dropped out of my mouth. I didn’t even bite down on anything hard or chewy it just plopped right out and onto my tongue. She’s a horrible dentist and a cruel person for putting me through that out of the greed of wanting money from a root canal scam.
My experience was also horrifying! Firstly she insisted I needed root canal on two teeth, one on the bottom, one on the top that meet each other. She and Dr. Mehlman — the man who she recommended to butcher my mouth were VERY rough. He actually cut my lip open when he slipped during the root canal and was very rude and she even complained and told me to tough it up when I –without saying anything– had the nerve to tear up from pain during the procedure! She was constantly losing assistants during the year (yes I saw her at least twice a month for over a year for thousands of dollars worth of unnecessary work and I will get to the WORST part of that soon) that I came in to see her to work on my teeth because she was fighting with them and jerking my face around while yelling at them and demeaning and belittling them in such a way that I felt embarrassed and sorry for them. A number of them. She also decided that while she was working on my mouth it was a good time to get into a religious discussion about creationism… and how stupid scientists are for ever thinking that the dinosaurs could POSSIBLY be millions of years old as the entire world is only 5 thousand years old. Now, she knew I am jewish, however she ALSO knew I’m a scientist. Regardless of my beliefs, secular or not, while a medical professional is doing intricate work on my mouth is not the time nor the place I would like to have this discussion and I certainly do not think this is appropriate subject matter to discuss with her patients.
Oh yeah, and then she charged me over $ 300 for a cleaning with antibiotics because she insisted I needed it. She put the temp crown on. It fell OFF by the time I drove home. She accused me of pulling my own crown out. This is all completely my fault for believing her by the way. I’m just passing all of this on to you so you don’t get roped into this. Because here comes the kicker: I told her time and time again I was in an inordinate amount of pain and that my gums were not healing properly after the root canal and again after the crown. I had tried to troop it out for WELL over a month but I was really in agony so I simply asked her what she can do for it, if she can numb it or it it could possibly be infected. She got MAD at me and refused to help and suggested I just wanted pain medicine.
So now it’s a year later, I’m at a different dentist. My new, very kind and very gentile dentist has filled cavities that Zucks didn’t even mention or notice (one right next to the crown) and I am still feeling discomfort and pain in my gums by the root canal… my gums around the crown are still black and blue… from a YEAR AGO! Turns out I have whats called «Open Contact» which means she didn’t properly seal the crown. In addition to that the crown itself is coming out of my gums and tearing them open and allowing bacteria inside the crown. I now have to have my new dentist remove the crown she screwed up, clean it out, and redo the whole thing by cutting a slit into my gums from the front of my tooth. If I run my finger along my gum line right now I can feel the sharp edge of the top of the crown coming out. One year later and I’m still in pain. So no, I do NOT think you should go to Dr. Zuckerman even on her best day. It’s not worth it. And after reading the other reviews on here I honestly don’t even think I needed root canal to begin with and I’m thinking it was a scam. Shame on her.

Worst dentist experience. They are rude and a bit strange. While in the chair having my tooth drilled on, her and the assistant were babbling or rather chit chatting back and forth about vacations, family or whatever. Similar to the other reviewer, she was talking root canal early on which I dismissed immediately and the subject never came up again. My advice; RUN, don’t walk, OUT!,

I have never experienced a worse experience. I come in with problems with my tooth and they were very rude to me. In addition, they said I needed another root canal on my tooth, without first ruling out any other ways I could treat it or reasons for my problem.
Additionally, they emphasized how it normally took 6 months to get an appointment for anything, while simultaneously just «happening» to find an appointment w/​in a few days for everything. They also offered a $ 50 gift certificate if you recommended a patient to them. Obviously because they are «so in demand.» Yeah right.
When I wanted to use x-​rays I had had a few months ago with another dentist of course I was marketed to about how I needed new ones, aka they wanted to make money.
Biggest quack I’ve ever seen. I can’t believe I actually received a recommendation to see her.
Run far away.