Haig Rickerby, DMD

Nice And knowledgeable staff!!! Great General, Periodontics, and Endodontics all in One place!!!

AMAZING Service! Everyone in the office is so kind and welcoming and I appreciate their follow ups. I recently relocated to DC, but still head back to Jersey City for my dentist appointments because I trust the quality of their service. I highly recommend Dr. Rickerby!

I recently discovered Unilocal after I decided to leave a review for my new dentist. My new dentist has done a great job so far. However, I use to go to Dr. Rickerby a while back. Generally, he did good work. I discovered him through calling the 800 number to find a dentist. I chose Dr. Rickerby because he accepted a credit plan and was a part of the 800 number’s registry. I had teeth cleanings, fillings, root canals, a crown and more done. I wasn’t really satisfied with the crown, but I found it to be acceptable. At the top part of my crown, there’s a black spot. I think it’s glue from installing the crown. I asked him if it should show like that, he said it’s fine. Sometimes it’s like that. I said okay. Funny though because I know people with crowns on their back teeth too and I see no glue residue. To his credit, I’ve had no other issues with it and its been a few yesrs. Anyway, before my second root canal was done, it was determined that I needed a few more fillings. When I came in the next time to get another filling done, Dr. Rickerby wanted to start my second root canal (a specialist comes in to complete root canals). I told him no, don’t do that. I can’t afford a root canal at this time. By this time, I was using care credit. I didn’t have enough credit to get a root canal. I told Dr. Rickerby to do the other filling, not the root canal. So, he preceded to work in my mouth. When he was done, he said I started the root canal. I said nooooooo, why would you do that, I can’t afford it. He said, he’s looking out for the best interest of my tooth. That’s great, but if the patient says not to do that, he shouldn’t have done it. After all, I’m paying for it. No insurance. He said, don’t worry about it after going into his office to talk to him. He said they would wave some of the payment for me to have the root canal completed. I said okay, but I still have to save and pay my care credit down in order to finish, which would take about 8 months. He said that’s fine. When it came time to get the root canal completed, they acted like they had no idea about waving some of the payment. I had to wait and save more. I contemplated going to another dentist to finish the root canal, but decided not to since the root canal specialist was going to do it and not Dr. Rickerby. The specialist did a good job with my first root canal. I decided Dr. Rickerby would never work on me again. I couldn’t understand why he didn’t let the specialist do the entire root canal in the first place like the specialist did the first time. Oh I think I know, he wanted to make sure I got the work done so he could make more money. Yes, I always had the impression that Dr. Rickerby wanted to make money from me. It makes sense considering using programs like care credit, the dentist gets their money almost immediately. With insurance, it takes time for claims to go through. I think as much as 8 months to get payments from insurances. Little does Dr. Rickerby knows, he caused me so much financial hardship when he decided to do what he wanted in my mouth just to make an extra buck. I’m still paying on the bill and its been a few years. Since I couldn’t pay the card off in time, all the astronomical interest was added on. In the years I went there, I spent at least eight thousand dollars. After finishing my root canal, I never went back there again. Dr. Rickerby made some money from the unauthorized root canal, but he lost a customer that highly cares about his teeth that would have spent much more. He lost much more money in the long run because he wanted to be greedy in the moment. I didn’t sue him because I liked him as a person and didn’t want to go through all that. I just figured I’d never go to him again. Since leaving him, I have found that his dental prices are expensive. My new dentist in journal square, his prices are more reasonable. Interestingly, I don’t get stains on my teeth anymore since leaving Dr. Rickerby. For some reason, I would get stains on my teeth even though I never had that problem before until I started going to Dr. Rickerby. I was told its normal, I’m getting older or could be what I’m eating. Well, I don’t get stains now. Guess what? I’m older and I still eat the same foods and drink the same juices. Overall, before that incident, I considered Dr. Rickerby to be a decent dentist. We had a good relationship, which is important to me with my doctors, but what he did, I had no choice but to cease going to him. He seems like he knows his stuff though. Sorry for this long review. For years, I wanted to get this off my chest. My new dentist, Dr. Vahid is good so far. But hey, Dr. Rickerby was good too in the beginning. So, I shall see how my new dentist goes.