Colameo Barbieri & Berado DMD

Please stay far away from this place if you have an emergency ! My dr. Set up an appointment for 830 this morning. I show up in pain from an impacted wisdom tooth and get there promptly … Fill out paperwork. They then put me in a chair and make me get up to sit back in the waiting room … No doctor has come in, just have to get up for another appointment. At this point the nasty receptionist Marie elana tells me I have to wait in pain till after everyone else is seen and even then it’s not a promise that it will get seen ! Why make the appointment then? Why make my hubby lose another day at work when I was most likely not going to be seen!!! They are nasty and do not care and Marie Elena refused to even tell the doc that I was there !!! Horrible horrible experience !!! Stay away from ride staff and uncaring assistants

I was informed by my dentist that I needed to have all 4 of my wisdom teeth extracted (mouth crowding/​plaque formation on 2^nd molars). Having your wisdom teeth yanked when you are 18 years old is no biggie, however, when you are over 40 years old, people look at your with a horrified and pained expression when you tell them you are having your wisdom teeth pulled. You start to hear horror stories: «I was so swollen and bruised» «I couldn’t eat for a week» «I was spitting clots of blood» «I got a dry socket»
Holy crap.
But I had no choice. I had put it off for a year. I met the oral surgeon that my dentist referred me to and I hated him — brusque, arrogant attitude. No thanks

Luckily, my friend’s daughter had her wisdom teeth removed and I saw her daughter day after her procedure. She said «It wasn’t too bad» My friend told me this particular oral surgeon was a great guy.
I made my appointment with Dr. Colameo.
He is everything I look for in a doctor. Smart, warm, easy to talk to with and a good sense of humor. Immediately put me at ease.
I had my extraction done in office with IV anesthesia: Versed/​Fentanyl and Diprivan. Another name for Diprivan is Propofol and it is jokingly referred to as Milk of Amnesia. And that’s what I had: amnesia, no memories of anything painful or uncomfortable. I never heard any tooth cracking or felt any pulling. I woke up 40 minutes later and was in no pain at all. I was never swollen. I only ended up taking 5 Percocet out of the 24 I was prescribed. Five days after the procedure, I was able to eat normally again… until then I was eating soft food due to some mild discomfort over the extraction sites.
The office staff is courteous and polite.
None of my wisdom teeth were impacted so I imagine that helped my recovery.
Dr. Colameo wrote me out of work for 3 days.
I could have gone to Disney on Day 2.
I hope your oral surgery goes as well :)