Simmons Cris Dr

The review, below, reflects exactly what I went through. It’s been a while since I had my appointment, but I also thought it was ridiculous to be charged $ 225 for a sales pitch. I wanted to post something about him on here earlier, but I had actually forgotten his name until Angie’s List reminded me in a «Please Review This» email. My brother-​in-​law, a lawyer, recommended him because he’s often called on for court cases related to TMJ issues. I’m sure he’s great at «performing» in a courtroom. He doesn’t seem very good at patient care, though. I’m sure he makes plenty off of those «consulting fees» to live on, though. LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR TMJ HELP!

I am extremely disappointed in the lack of care we received from Cris Simmons and would strongly recommend anyone with TMJ issues look elsewhere for help. My child has mild TMJ jaw locking issues and we set up an appointment to see Cris Simmons. There is a $ 225 «consult» fee just to get in the door. I thought that this was a little steep, but was willing to pay it to get some help for my child. Cris Simmons spent less than 5 minutes «examining» her and then proceeded to give us a 45-​minute canned lecture on the anatomy of the jaw. I’m all for educating the patient about the issues involved, but the basics of what needed to be said could have been done in 2 minutes. One got the feeling he thought all this pseudo-​erudite pontificating would help us feel better about the $ 225 fee, to make us feel like we were actually getting something for our money (as if we didn’t know how to look all this up on the internet for free).
After the perfunctory and superficial «exam», he didn’t touch my child for the rest of the consult, and certainly offered nothing immediately (either in physical manipulations or in advice) that would help decrease or ameliorate the problem. His only help came in the way of offering to sell us a $ 9000 prosthetic plastic device (like a night tooth guard). That’s right $ 9,000.00! So, we paid $ 225 dollars just to get to this: a $ 9000 upsell! A long and mostly useless lecture on general physiological mechanics that pretty much ignored the specific patient sitting right in front of him and offered nothing in the way of immediate help. I would be embarrassed at employing such tactics and could not trust this person to give appropriate care to my child or my self.
If you have severe TMJ, maybe this $ 9,000 plastic mouth piece might be the way to go; I don’t know. I do know charging $ 225 for a bunch of hot air just as a hook to get you to drop another $ 9,000 does not indicate the kind of health care provider I would trust with my health. We ended up going to a physical therapist and after two visits the problem resolved.