Angell Street Dental Associates

They seem to do wide range of services, they're relatively reasonable price and they are easy to schedule.

Scary, terrible. This is the worst kind of dental office. The summary: they care more about and quot;smile improvementand quot; than dental health because there is more money to be made in cosmetic improvements, and they will go to great lengths to show you how imperfect your smile is and maximize their payment from insurance, even at the expense of your health. You may go in for teeth cleaning, but dollars-to-donuts they'll try and sell you some advanced, expensive and unnecessary dental work that may leave your mouth less healthy than before.

I've always had nearly perfect teeth - no cavities, no braces, nothing. Chalk it up to good genetics, diligence about brushing/flossing and avoiding soft drinks. Which made every prior visit to previous dentists short and sweet, but made my visit to Angell Street Dental Associates very strange.

First, they spend a tremendous amount of time showing you how ugly and unaligned your teeth ar. No other dentist has ever done more than 4 x-ray images of my teeth - they literally did over a dozen (edit: they did TWENTY), which was completely unnecessary and medically unsafe. Then they used a painful contraption to pry open my jaws and take photos of all my teeth - again, I've never had this done and didn't ask for it. And then just the generally humiliating and quot;smile!and quot; request so they could take photos of me smiling from different directions. All of this before I saw an actual dentist.

The dentist spent the next half hour going through all the x-rays and photos looking for every excuse to find some extra work to do. She seemed disappointed that I really didn't need any corrective work to straighten my teeth.

Avoid, avoid, avoid. Go here at your own peril. There are plenty of other good dentists who don't act like used car salesman.