La Jolla Center for Holistic Dentistry

Don’t go here.
Sure, avoid fluoride, eat organic and stay away from heavy metal toxins — but PLEASE don’t get fooled by this «holistic dentist». I was almost scammed — big time.
While Dr Chen and her staff were really nice during the consultation, receiving a $ 3000 procedure plan for removing a mercury filling THAT I DIDN’T EVEN HAVE, was downright wrong.
I recently went to my old dentist back in Massachusetts, showed her the diagnosis and got a laughing earful. My old dentist has 18 dentists in her family, a large history of merited studies and has been doing dental work for decades — she had never heard of such a ludicrous situation. I got my teeth checked out and sure enough, like I thought — I didn’t even have a mercury amalgam; something that was supposed to cost me almost $ 2000 to remove (???). Tack on hundreds of dollars more in arbitrary add-​ons and you’ve got yourself a load of horse shit. Sad, but true.
I never write bad reviews, but this has got to be publicized.

Dr. Chen is an amazing Dentist and wonderful person. I look forward to every appointment and will definitely refer her to all my friends and family. I have had nothing but great experiences. I had reoccurring problems with a root canal and my options were running out with my regular dentist. Dr. Chen goes above and beyond care, very kind, very focused… can’t go wrong with her. I am so happy with the results of Ozone treatments. I had 2 redone root canals/​crowns that are finally recovering from infection. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Thank you Dr Chen :)!!! ~Joanna L.

I highly recommend Dr. Chen for root canal extraction! She was excellent. Thanks to her attention to detail, I healed quickly!

Dr. Chen was a very nice woman and her staff was very kind and I have nothing but nice things to say about them. My experience was not so nice. Dental visits are never a good thing especially when you are in extreme tooth pain. I don’t agree with getting root canals and either does Dr. Chen so we agreed to pull the tooth. She could not get my mouth numb and I was in the chair for 3 hours. She could only get half the tooth out and we agreed to come back the next day… Same thing, could not get tooth numb and we just decided to stop. I left the office pretty deflated and with a bag of homeopathic medicines. I was given a total of around $ 500 for the service, which I thought was a little high, but ok. She didn’t even finish the job and to my surprise the bill I got in the mail was $ 758. $ 200 for extra homeopathic meds? The office just gave me a goody bag and I left. Bottom line is its my fault for not being thorough enough, but they knew the cost of that stuff and knew I could not afford it and they pushed it out on me anyway. I learned my lesson. Spend a little extra on a oral surgeon and just get the job done the first time