Richard T. Hansen, DMD

Dr. Hansen is truly a pioneer in the field of modern dentistry. He is light years ahead of any other dentist I have ever been to. He saved two of my teeth from extraction. I come all the way from San Francisco to see him; that should speak for itself. I give him my highest recommendation. Also, the hygienists are the best! Wouldn’t even have my teeth cleaned anywhere else.

My family has been going to dr. Hanson for the better part of two decades. He’s amazing at what he does. Everyone knows the drill in your teeth is not an optimal resolution to cavities. Come get all your biological dentistry work done here and protect your health my mom and I wouldn’t go anywhere else

I’ve been coming to this dental office for almost ten years and have had nothing but the best experience each visit. I usually dread visits to any dentist’s office. But Dr. Hansen’s holistic approach to dentistry is what attracted me to them after relocating from NY to LA. All of their employees have always been very professional and attentive to my needs as a patient and the work I’ve gotten done (laser restorations, mercury fillings removed, cavities filled, tooth whitening, etc.) has always been conducted with my health and comfort as the primary focus. I highly recommend Dr. Hansen and his team if you’re looking for a new dentist that puts an emphasis on advanced technological approaches to alleviate potential discomfort and pain and if you want a dentist that avoids using toxic materials in your mouth even if those materials are widely used and accepted throughout the community of dentistry.

I work with Dr. Hansen so this review is coming from the other side. Many patients come to our office because other dentists want to extract their teeth or maybe they just want a more conservative approach to dentistry. We do not cut down teeth for crowns. We believe in preserving as much of the healthy tooth structure as possible.
All the staff members that work with Dr. Hansen have been practicing in dentistry for over 10 years. Sometimes it’s difficult to take digital X-​rays on certain mouths. Our job is not easy and we apologize if we get a little water on you while we are trying to help you out. But please remember we are just trying to help you. We are never trying to harm you in any way. We want the same for you as you want for you. To have optimum oral health, prevent tooth decay and periodontal disease all while using lasers and biocompatible dental materials. Thank you for reading this.

I went to this office many years ago and it was the worst dental experience I’ve ever had. At that time, I was drawn to this office by the news articles taking about Dr. Hansen’s new experimental laser alternatives to root canals. As a previous reviewer noted, there were no websites to warn me about this business back then. I made an appointment to do a full inspection as several teeth were bothering me. It cost $ 595 which is a lot for a checkup, even without dental insurance as the office didn’t accept them. I was helped by an assistant, believe her name is Lorraine, who was the most incompetent assistant I’ve ever had the displeasure of encountering in the dental office. A basic x ray ended up taking her 1 hour and she kept making mistakes with about everything else such as mold casting and water suction (where she sucked water from my mouth to have a lot of it, not just a little, spill onto my chest). A checkup (no cleaning) ended up taking about 2 hours. I am patient and considerate, but this was still over the top.
The reason why I feel I am at a position to state this as a problem is I that I have been to different dental offices before and after Dr. Hansen’s office. I’ve had x-​rays taken at different places, and have also received different types of services from dental assistants. This was the only place where I have ever encountered such incompetence. What made the whole experience worse was the fact that this service cost $ 595. For $ 595, I expected better service (or at least on par service), not the worst and most incompetent dental service ever.
In the end, the lady dentist who saw me wanted to charge $ 2300 for a laser treatment procedure plus crown and have me sign a form authorizing them to charge $ 5000 in case the last therapy failed and a root canal had to be performed. I bailed. Later when I requested my dental records from them, they refused to release them without a $ 40 charge. They are terrible to deal with. Stay far far away.

I had a biocompatible root canal with laser sterilization from Dr. Hansen. The holistic info on Dr. Hansen’s website made sense to me and I really hoped it would work. Sadly, one year later the tooth is a dark gray color and the area hurts. A Cone Beam CT scan shows infection under the root canal and it needs to be extracted. I’ve had chronic ischemic osteonecrosis of the jaw (aka cavitations), and root canals just don’t seem to work for me – even if done in a holistic manner with biocompatible materials and laser sterilization. Some (healthy) people seem to do okay with root canals and I spoke with one patient who went here who had excellent results. From my own experience, I question them for people with chronic illness and especially those prone to cavitations/​ischemic osteonecrosis.

This is the most unprofessional dental place I have ever been to. I went there for an appointment one day and the vicious receptionist said I didn’t have an appointment. I insisted that I had one and she insisted that I did not. I told her I drove an hour just to get there and she did not care at all. They ended up telling me to reschedule. So I did, somewhere else!
Stay away from this place. They have a crabby receptionist with a pissy attitude. She has poor customer service skills and doesn’t care at all for others.

It has been many, many years since I was treated by Dr. Hansen, and the internet
was not there to warn me, so now, I would like to help others avoid a very unfortunate experience. Hopefully by reading this you will further research this practice. He wrecked my bite and then accused me of night grinding rather than fix what he broke.
Their treatment of me when I requested help was appalling. I will leave it at that, except to say that my teeth are still not fixed years later; I had some teeth re-​drilled and
filled to ameliorate the issue, but I couldn’t find a dentist that could fix it without
re-​drilling all of the work. It was too distressing to continue … no one wanted to
work on someone else’s mess.

If you are looking for cutting edge dentistry this is the place to go.
Dr. Hansen is an amazing man he and Dr Yoon use Lasers in all phases of treatment.
Even the hygienists use Lasers, there is no pain and no blood when a Laser is used.
If a dentist tells you that your tooth needs to be pulled call Dr. Hansen’s office — your tooth can be saved!