Western Dental

they suck!
do not, in i mean do not waste your time coming here or spend your money here.
i myself will be contacting the dental board soon. theres so many problems that they need to fix them self with. they are beyond unprofessional. they do not care about watever case you got going on, all they wanna do is bullshit you in make you pay watever «supposie» needs to be fix. medical or not please take that to some one who really knows about there job in willing to take care of your teeth. thank you

People told me not to go here, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt. I had a bad feeling about this place before I even made the appointment. Just goes to show, always go with your gut! Terrible wait time, I felt like the person taking my daughters X-​rays didn’t want me there (she actually asked me to wait in the lobby)… Um, no. She’s 7! And the dentist was rude! We were there for ½ a day just for X-​rays and to be told that we had to come back to see the children’s dentist who is only there once a month! No thank you, I’ll pay cash somewhere else. Not to mention they made my daughter an appointment to see the orthodontist (even though I told them she wouldn’t be getting braces until all of her baby teeth were gone), but ‘it’s procedure’. We never saw the orthodontist. Not sure what happened there, and I won’t be back to find out either!

First off the only reason Western Dental gets 1 star is because I had too leave 1 star in order too leave a review. This place is a Joke. Worst Comminication skills on the Planet. Their Dentists are too good too talk too you. They talk about you right in front of you and then have their Assistant repeat what he says. Lol I wouldn’t take my Dog too this place. Waited 6 Fing hours just too be sent home. I was in extreme pain. My next App wasn’t for 2 weeks. So what do these Jack asses do? Give me Antibiotics and pain medicine for 2 days! Hello! What about the other 12 days of Fing pain? Then the pain medicine didn’t do a Damn thin. Had too take 6 200mg ibuprofin with the Prescription ones for it too even start too work! Then the Kicker! I go back and they rescheduled me and wanted me too go pay another 50 dollars for prescription and take them all over again! Do Not Go Too This Place!!!’

UGH!!! After waiting HOURS to be seen they took some xrays then insisted I needed deep cleaning that was only going to run me over $ 900 when I just wanted a basic cleaning (which my insurance would have covered, had I stayed). I walked out. I will never return.
Never.
PS: Just in case WD corp sees this and thinks they should contact me: Don’t.

Update: I e-​mailed the woman below about the review I left on this page.
She never responded.
For people who say they care about the services that you receive from Western Dental, they certainly don’t care enough to review your concerns and respond to you.
My opinion still stands. Avoid this place. There are better dentists in this area, by far.

If I could give them zero stars I would. Nobody in the office knows what they are doing. A bunch of young girls that clearly aren’t trained properly. I have really good insurance and they tricked me into signing a contract with them rather than use my insurance. I emailed corporate a year ago and never got a response and coincidently if you try to call in to file a grievance, the line mysteriously gets disconnected (I called 3 times).
The current office manager is polite but she doesn’t handle her business. She never got back to me regarding my issue. Mind you that I got my braces in September 2012. They’re constantly getting the wrong information, from pulling up wrong pricing for your insurance coverage or not having facts straight.
I filed a case with my insurance carrier and I’m going to do so with the ADA as well. If you don’t have insurance it might be easy to come to western dental but not without major headaches.

Wow I just found out today Dr. Melara no longer works at this location And I’ve been coming here for the past 6 years. I might have to look for another Dentist to take care of my teeth. He was a terrific Dentist, it’s sad he transferred to Visalia.