Lakeshore Dental

Wade Bowen

2 months ago

I have been coming here since I was 16-17 years old so around 8-9 years, I had amazing experiences with Dr. Patel and Dr. Cruise (when he was still practicing) I love the staff here and have had alot of history with this practice, I was recently put with Dr. Jassoma and have had an good experience for the most part. My only complaint is a mix of my own fault on part of not handling it sooner/not being more confident in saying what i needed and the feeling of not being heard by Dr. Jassoma, came in for a cleaning and found I had a cavity on my last molar on the left, no big deal, got it cleaned and filled. Then the sensitivity started, to heat, cold, if I flossed in between my two molars. I dealt with it for a few weeks or about a month or two (cant remember the time span) made an appointment and they saw me quick to get it taken care of, came in and before we did any X-rays we skipped to trying to shape the filling, I agreed as I trust Dr. Jassoma and recognize that I must trust her to do what she thinks is the correct course. We continued and the pain persisted, then filed a (corner? Edge?) of my tooth to try and make sure my teeth weren't contacting. At first it felt the same, they then did X-rays and found that there was some decay under another filling in that area but the xray ai analysis showed that it wasn't any heavy decay and showed yellow went home and two days later the pain subsided. Then before my next cleaning the pain had returned and during that visit I told them the pain returned and we checked again and the decay had worsened, Dr. Jassoma removed the filling and cleaned out the decay and informed me that it had moved into the pulp pretty far. I asked why don’t we do a root canal, and she gave me an honest explanation, if we do a root canal we are going to keep removing tooth material and the weaker my tooth would become. I was anxious but I try to put all my trust in my doctors, so we left it with it being refilled, in the past week and a half the pain has increased to the point where I am using a tube of Ora gel and taking two aleve a day to help with pain and i cant chew on that side and have the feeling of it festering. So I visited them last week and Dr. Jassoma was able to tell me very quickly that we are going to have to do a root canal, unfortunately my insurance wont cover any of the root canal and only a little less than half of the crown so I have to wait or get an extraction till I can afford it. All in all these particular experience in a long relationship of great experiences with this practice hasn’t been the best but I also understand that as Doctors they are people and want to help us keep our teeth healthy and try and keep our original teeth as much as possible, and that sometimes predicting whats going to happen in the human mouth is hard and unrealistic. So regardless I appreciate the years of dental work and help I have gotten here and hopefully will get in the future.