Happy Dental

Dr. Lee is more concerned about pushing anything she can on you from night guards to unnecessary fillings than your actual dental health. Sadly, I fell for all of her tactics because god forbid I trust my dentist.
I switched to another dentist and he showed me with his camera how Dr. Lee failed to complete several fillings and incorrectly fit a crown which has been causing a gradual shifting of my teeth! And this crown is on a wisdom tooth which she should have just removed, that’s dental 101.
Dr. Lee charged me a fortune and now I have to pay even more to fix her crappy job. She did the same thing to my husband, and his new dentist showed him all of her mistakes on his teeth as well.
Stay away!

Visited the Manhattan location. Dr. Lee performed a root canal. She couldn’t locate the third root of my molar, leaving it unattended. The abscess never went away and the tooth had to be removed eventually. When it was pulled, the next dentist showed me that the gutta percha was actually sticking out of one of the roots.

Happy Dental with Dr. Angela Lee is one of the most ironically named dentistries I have ever had the misfortune of visiting.
I went to Happy Dental for about a year from 2013 – 2014 and my teeth have never felt worse in my 28 years of living than the year I was at Happy Dental.
A brief recap of my experience there:
Mar 2013: I had a nagging toothache around my upper left second molar. Dr. Angela took an x-​ray and told meI needed a root canal on my upper left second bicuspid, which had absolutely never given me any problems or pain. She explained that some root canals don’t display any symptoms and that I should get the root canal before my tooth cracks in half. She had a lot of fancy equipment and soothing jazz music in the background, so I made the mistake of trusting her. Strike 1.
Strike 2: Most root canals take about 3 weeks to finish. Hers took around 8 weeks. How do I know? Because I was in and out of a cast for a torn achilles faster than it took her to finish the root canal.
Strike 3: Not only did she operate on the wrong tooth, but she also took the liberty of removing and replacing one of my old fillings without informing me in the middle of the 8 week root canal. I only realized what she had done after I was numbed up and had started drilling.
Strike 4: In a likely effort to milk my insurance dry, she also told me that I grind my teeth a lot (something no dentist has ever brought up in my lifetime) and that she would bill my insurance for a mouthguard. **Update since receiving the mouthguard, I it has shown absolutely no signs of grinding.
So up to this point, not only was my root canal tooth sore from her operating, the tooth with the replaced filling felt absolutely terrible as well.
Dec 2014, I had a nagging toothache and went in to see what was up. Dr. Angela had another dentist do an x-​ray and look at my teeth. The dentist said everything was ok.
Jan 2014: Toothache got worse. I went in again and Dr. Angela, without looking at my x-​rays, said that she had kept an eye on cavities that I had and was just waiting until it was giving me pain to operate on them. She went right to work and finished the filling in less than half an hour. Hurray??? Wrong. First, she did a terrible job of the filling as she had forgotten to buffer out the rough edges. Strike 5. Second and most importantly, it was STILL THE WRONG TOOTH. I don’t even know if I needed a filling on the tooth she filled because she didn’t even bother checking the x-​ray beforehand! Strike 6 and 7.
Feb 2014: After the pain and sensitivity from her inept filling subsided, my original toothache was still present and intensified. It was at this point I had had enough and went to go check out Bogota Dental instead. Bogota took a very detailed x-​ray of my teeth, and Dr. Pole saw that my upper left molar had a HUGE and obvious cavity that apparently had been festering for a few years that either needed a root canal or a very miraculous filling. She tried the filling route, but in the end the damage had been done and I needed a root canal, which she did in 3 weeks time… with much better equipment.
So to summarize my experience at «Happy» Dental, Dr. Angela gave me one probable unnecessary root canal, one probable unnecessary cavity, one unauthorized replacement filling, a demonstrated ineptitude in reading x-​rays, and a mouthguard I do not need. Also, from a subjective point of view, not only have my teeth never felt worse, I also have never felt so worse about my teeth. She has a way of making me think that all my teeth will fall out by age 40.
I’ve heard it is a pain to report dentists to the board, which I still think about doing from time to time. I think I have more than sufficient evidence to prove my case along with the x-​rays to back up my claims of misdiagnosing. It’s hard for me to quantify and explain just how terrible my teeth felt throughout the year and the inordinate amount of visits to her office just made the experience that much more un-«Happy.» I’ve never gone to the dentist that much in one year and my teeth have consequently never felt worse.
It is now Apr 2014 and my teeth finally feel normal again. On the one hand, even though Dr. Angela worked her magic with my insurance to milk it dry, she never charged me and my wife a penny which I appreciated… but that was a high price to pay for my year of dental hell at Happy Dental.

People are wonderfully fascinating, complex, and. .. well, different. My brother’s wife (and their two teens) have been going to the New Jersey office for a few years now. My sister-​in-​law knew I have been a patient in the midtown Manhattan office for quite awhile and, when asked what I thought of Happy Dental shortly after they relocated to Englewood, I didn’t hesitate to recommend them. My brother still goes to the same New York dentist he has had for many years, but he continues to work in and commute to Manhattan during the week so that hasn’t been a problem for him.
My sister-​in-​law is a lovely woman with many positive qualities, but diplomacy is probably not one of them. Yet, I’ve never heard her say anything negative about Dr. Lee. If my sister-​in-​law were dissatisfied with either her dentist or the dental care she is receiving, I’m pretty sure she would have switched to a different dental practice by now.

Reviewing for the park ave location but I dont see it listed on Unilocal.Came here after having tooth pain and not going to the dentist in over two years. Turns out I had a mouth of cavities and a little over a month to fix everything before I left the country.
Made an appt for a cleaning and had xrays taken to discover I had at least 3 cavities that needed filling. Everything finished in two sessions with relative pain. All in all it was fast in and out and she takes time to explain everything in extreme detail, so dont hesitate to ask any questions you have about your teeth. I sit writing this as my face has just come off being numb and a little sore but thats what happens when drills are taken to your teeth.
The only thing I wish they had is something a previous dentist had, Where small cavities could be filled with a laser that didnt require numbing. But maybe its only select places that use it. Like most dentists I also was told to get invisilign. Perhaps in a couple years I will be able to afford it ;;
Super easy to find location and they are very flexible with times. I had to reschedule once and I was able to just send a email or two to confirm.

I went to the New Jersey location to get a basic cleaning, but I came out there with a $ 5,000 estimate bill of what I should get. Dr. Angela Lee bedside manners were really annoying. The whole time she’s cleaning my teeth, all she does it yap yap yap! She was telling me I need to get this and that and how my teeth were stained. It was definitely overwhelming. And the most distasteful part of the visit was, she kept on whispering to the dental assistant about how horrible my teeth looked and how easy and cheap it would be do fix all my imperfections, knowing that I can hear her. Don’t waste your time going there because you’ll leave feeling like crap. There’s so many other dentists out there who are honest and who have great bedside manners.