Hieu D Pham,DDS

Nina B’s review is spot on — no bedside manner to speak of and a poorly run office that results in long delays.
I had a 9:30 consultation, one hour later I was still sitting in a little room having seen Dr. Pham for a mere 60 seconds so he could tell me he needed another x-​ray. When I inquired about the safety of having multiple x-​rays over a few months, he seemed annoyed and replied that if I wanted the consultation, I had to have the x-​ray. I asked the same question 2 more times, his answer was the same and he never addressed my original question.
After one hour of sitting around (and I was only the 2^nd patient of the day), I let the front desk know I had run out of time. It’s amazing how often one is left languishing in a medical office as though one has nothing but time to kill. Meanwhile, as a patient, if you have an emergency and can’t make an appointment, the medical office charges a fee. Why is the patient’s time less valuable?

Dr. Pham gets two stars for what he does. I could never cut people’s gums open and stick metal screw implants into jaws. Oral surgery is an honorable profession. But this guy has no bedside manners.
When I had a tooth extracted by a resident at UCSF it took 4 hours. After demanding that I be seen by a UCSF faculty member and not a resident as I had first requested, I expressed to Dr. Pham how I was concerned that the implant might take as long as the extraction, he then snickered and said you couldn’t pay me enough for me to work on you for more than an hour. Rude.
A few months down the road my temporary healing abutment came out and I had to go in for a replacement. Fine. An hour later the stitches came out and I am chewing on fishing wire. Blah.
The whole UCSF Faculty practice is terribly run in general. Don’t go there. Most of the doctors are ok. Even Dr. Pham has a few redeming qualities. But that office is run terribly.