Sun Dental Care

Dr. Kim and staff are knowledgeable and friendly. Dr. Kim explained everything to me in terms of the current state of my teeth and what needed to be done. I had a general cleaning done by the hygenist who was gentle and friendly. Pictures were taken of my teeth due to being 6 mths pregnant and not being able to get xrays. Overall, clean office. Staff is friendly and knowledgeable.

It has taken me a couple months to form my exact words that I wanted to say in this review. Let me begin and say that I need to have quite a bit of work done on my teeth. So, I’ve been on a search for a good dentist that could not only help my needs, but someone who could be MY permanent dentist. I’ve moved around a lot, so I’ve had my fair share of dentists, but now, I was just looking for someone to settle down with in GA.
Someone recommended Dr. Kim so I went to him with a toothache. It turned out to be a bad tooth and a wisdom tooth that needed to be taken out. Dr. Kim was not inviting in his bedside manner. He did not help me understand what needed to be done, I sort of figured it out as he was speaking with his dental assistant. Then, finally, he gruffly told me that the two teeth had to be pulled. I was already in pain, I had been for a number of days. I reluctantly said okay because I wanted the pain to stop.
As Dr. Kim prepped for the procedure, he didn’t explain to me that he was about to inject me with anesthetic. He just came toward me with a huge needle and started just poking away, not saying a word. Yes, I know that needles hurt, but a little warning or something would have been nice. I’ve been in and out of dentist’s offices enough to know a general procedure of pulling a tooth. Anyway, after the anesthetic, again not saying one word to me, he puts a sheet over my face with a hole for my mouth. This has never happened to me before. It’s almost like he didn’t want to look at me while working on my mouth! Next he started drilling and drilling and drilling. He was applying so much pressure that I was scared he was going to miss my tooth and nick something else. Now, the worst part of this whole experience, he held me down with his FOREARM! That’s right! I have never, in my life, been so manhandled in the dentist’s chair. I mean, I count myself a pretty calm person, even under pain I keep relatively quite and rarely made a peep, but this was too much. At one point I asked him to stop. The pressure was too much, his weight on my tooth with the drill was too much. And not once, did he ask me how I was doing or anything! Finally, after it was all said and done, he took the two teeth out and walked out of the procedure room — again without saying a word. I never saw him again after that. I went up to pay, in near tears, not from the procedure, but from how I was treated. The secretary didn’t ask me how I was doing or anything; she just took the payment.
You would have expected for the dentist to call after a couple days of the procedure to see how you were doing, right? Yeah, sure. The only phone call I got was two weeks later to schedule my next appointment! Well, I told the secretary how I felt about the treatment and that I would never come to Dr. Kim’s office again. All she said was, «I’m sorry» and «I’ll let Dr. Kim know.»
And that was the end of that.
All this being said, I don’t recommend Dr. Kim for anything unless you like being handled like livestock getting your teeth done. I was totally scarred and now, I’m afraid to go find another dentist. *SIGH…* The search continues… Next time I find one, it’s going to be a lot a questions from the beginning. It’s sad that you can’t just walk in and trust the dentist will treat you like a fellow person of humanity.