Tribula & McOmber Dental Associates

From the time you walk in the door this is not only a pleasant dental experience, it is pleasant overall experience. The office staff is consistently courteous, polite, friendly, and willing to assist with any treatment, insurance, our scheduling questions that you have. The office is impeccably clean and they all have a very nice demeanor.
I have been going to this office for 2 years (every 4 months for routine cleanings and once for a full cap on a back tooth.) They are carrying and compassionate, and gentle– I have very sensitive teeth. My appointment times are always honored within 10 minutes and they send confirmation emails and calendar requests a week prior to your nect appointment.
The only reason that I’m hesitant to recommend them is because I selfishly don’t want the office to get too busy.

I still stand by my four star review for my cleaning in January, but after having a crown replaced and a new onlay done on two adjacent teeth I will not be returning.
Now, to be clear, I have issues with novocaine (I numb very easily and the feeling makes me miserable and an utter bitch, while not being able to feel what’s happening in my mouth makes me nervous and anxious.) I also become a mental patient when confronted with the sight, sound, and/​or smell of the drill; it doesn’t even have to be in any way associated with my teeth — if there’s drilling going on in the next room I WILL panic, but I can deal with it. When I mention these issues, it’s so we can all work together to minimize my trauma and thereby make their work easier. Namely, if there’s drilling to be done, I need to know in advance to prepare myself, I need enough nitrous so I don’t give a sh*t, and I need just enough novocaine to keep my from curling up into a cocktail shrimp on the chair, but not so much that I lose feeling to my entire head.
First appointment, after asking that they be conservative with the novocaine, I was told that the doctor prefers copious amounts, but they would try to scale back. I had no feeling in the right side of my face and neck until the next day. Conversely, they were overly conservative with the nitrous, making my appointment unduly stressful, even after requesting that they increase it (it’s not as if they don’t charge extra). This was a first appointment though, a baseline, I figure in the future we can work from there, right?
Second visit was supposed to be just removing the temporary and fitting and cementing the new onlay and crown in place. I was asked if I would like novocaine, as the teeth can be sensitive once the temporary is removed, but I declined with vehemence, restating that I DO NOT LIKE novocaine and can deal with sensitivity. But what’s this? By the way, you will need novocaine; we need to make a few «adjustments». By «adjustments», we mean DRILLING. No warning, no time to prepare, NOT good. I really didn’t want to have to reschedule, but to make a long story short, even after stressing that I received much too much novocaine at my previous visit, I was given a whopping shot once again and another for good measure and then drilled for an hour. The young man told me I looked as if I was about to cry when I came out.
What this boils down to is, I need my dentist to listen to me and that did not happen here. I have since found my old dentist and will resume my hour and a half treks to see her once again.