Frankel G S Dental Group

I love this dental office! My son recently started his braces with Dr. Moradi and we couldn’t be happier! He and his staff are awesome with us and all of their other patients. My son actually is looking forward to going to his Ortho appointments. I recommend this place for braces! Dr. Moradi is the man!

Great neighborhood dental place!
Yes, it’s a little stuck in the 70’s but I hear they are under new management and are currently getting some up grades.
I have been coming here for 3 years. The staff is great! Alan is my dental hygienist and he does an amazing job! You are always in good hands and will come out looking fabulous! I recommend him to anyone!
Frank is one of the office guys and helps to talk about billing and will help you from one room to the other. Very honest and very nice.
The X-​ray guy is so awesome too! Very nice and always great to see.
I usually see Dr. Karp or Dr. Lee. Karp is always a hoot and tells it like it is! Dr. Lee is very nice and great at what he does. He fixed a sensitively once and it was such a relief!
The ladies all at the front are vey nice! Always a smile and always helpful!

Took my 12yr old daughter for a checkup and cleaning. I read the reviews prior to her appointment and was hesitant based on some of the negative comments but gave them a try anyways. Sooo glad we did, the office staff was friendly, fast and courteous. She was seen by two dentist both had great bedside manners. The office décor was outdated but clean. I would trade excellent service for outdated décor anytime!

This review is long overdue… Ihave to say if I can give this place 10 stars I would… the team at the dental office is very accommodating… I especially love the fact that they don’t try to upsell you on ridiculous dental stuff that you don’t need because they pride themselves on doing what’s necessary to get the job done right. My favorite dentist is Doctor Korta. She is not only good at giving needles but the truth is you really don’t even feel a thing. I’m the biggest wimp when it comes to needles and she’s the only one I will allow to do dental work on me. I recently had a crown done by her and it was completely painless because of her technique. also, the dental office may not have the best décor but who really cares if they have the best dentist there!

They are the best… was referred there by a friend as they did her veneers… they are beautiful… you might have to wait a while but there work and prices are the best and they don’t try to sell you things you don’t need… ive sent at least 4 to 5 people there and they all were satisfied i just warned them sometimes you have to wait, but worth it for there prices and quality of work… Dr Lee does all my crown work and is the best… they have several dentist working there, all do one certain thing like crown braces gum surgery ect. They have a great plan for braces too and financing.

This place told me I had two cavities. Since the place was disgusting and the staff were unprofessional, I decided to go somewhere else to get them filled. The new place I went told me that I didn’t have any cavities! Apparently this place just wanted to charge me for treatment that I didn’t need!

Thieves. Billed me $ 700 to glue a loose crown back in place. More than the cost of a new crown. After charging just $ 43 while i was there in person. Absolute, utter thieves. Liars, too.

Doctor Frankel made me a bridge which damaged my teeth. I lost two teeth because he used cheap silver to join these teeth, the silver got rusted and damaged my teeth, and lost both teeth. My rating is zero for this dentist.
Dar T

I was fitted for retainers recently, and I will say that they did a great job! However, some of the staff weren’t very friendly and made me feel uncomfortable at times. I feel that if I’m paying you, at least pretend to be nice.

The dentist is awesome, he show due care when he does the fillings. I never had any problem after he did the fillings. I deeply appreciate that. Now this would be my place for healthy teeth. The dentist who provided the teeth cleaning is awesome too! She is very thorough, careful and knows how to make me relaxed during the procedure. Your teeth shine after she did the cleansing for you.

I cannot say enough about Dr. Frankel’s Dental Group.
As a Los Angeles native and a mother of teenagers, I highly recommend this dentist office. Very honest and always going the extra mile to work with my dental insurance to minimize my out of pocket expenses.
They do beautiful work with patience and care… I wish I could give them more stars!
I love this Dental Group and will be forever grateful to the staff and doctors who always take the time to give my family the utmost care.

First let me say I haven’t vist this office in 13 yrs. and it looks the same. The place is in need of some upgrades and new technology would nice, but I didn’t go there for the décor I went because I was in pain!
Dr. Wisdom made me fell comfortable and explained everything I needed and not to worry, I would be fine. I tell you with that «ol school» touch I was at ease. I was off to X-​rays and back in the dentist chair (Dr. Korp) for my new and improved bridge and off to another room for my deep cleaning (I’m sorry I don’t remember his name). Although there was much moving around from room to room you can’t beat the professionalism from each and everyone.
To my surprise everything was covered with no out of pocket!!! I guess with the «ol school» look Dr. G. Frankel can keep the prices to where folk on a «shoestring» budget can afford to take care of their teeth.
I do have to go back for a permanent crown and my total out of pocket cost for this is only 200.00. I tell you I have visited other modern updated dentist’s office and the prices are OUTRAGEOUS! I glade to be spending only $ 200.00 and not $ 2,255.00 for the same treatment Dr. Frankel team has provided.
«Ol school» wins it for me! I’m a returning patient.

Long-​Time Patient
I cannot say enough about how excellent this dental group is. I am writing this review hoping that this dental office will not become «trendy» — because I currently really enjoy going there with my family. We have been patients for about 12 years. This place is the wave of the future of dentistry and has been quietly practicing it for some time. For example, we can walk into the office at almost any given time, including Saturdays, and get immediate treatment from top quality dentists, without needing an outside referral for anything, for a host of major issues. Just about every dental problem can be handled in-​house by a group of world-​class dentists who don’t screw up, ever, let me name a few: Dr. Lee, Dr. Karp, Dr. Karali, Dr. Korda, I am certainly forgetting to name a few other dentists, all who are fantastic and all who have a ton of experience in dentistry and additionally in working with some of the most challenging patients dentists could take on. I have had root canals, crowns and cavities; this place has handled all issues flawlessly. Everyone’s a professional at Dr Frankel and specializes in what they do, so rest assured you’re dealing with someone with plenty of experience. Also, the person who cleans teeth does it with precision and really knows what he’s doing along with the x-​ray guy. The cheesy wood panels are definitelo ghetto-​fabulous and/​or completely outdated, but over time I’ve gotten used to them and hope they stay. My sense is that the owner purposely keeps the wood paneling in-​place to take us into a 1970’s-era place where people used to relax and just «chill out». Not sure that’s a correct assessment of why there is wood paneling but I will say that I have been to many dentists, boutique dentists, nice dental offices and popular dentists, but they all pale greatly in comparison to Dr Frankel.

I’ve used Unilocal to read reviews but I’ve never wrote one myself but I felt I needed to let others know about my experience. I went to this office a couple months ago for some cavities. Right when I walked I felt like I went back in time, probably 1973. Everything in this place was super dated, old tools, old exam rooms, not to mention they had magazines from the early 80s. My gut told me to walk out while I still could but I decided I would not judge a book by its cover. Now I know that its totally OK to determine a dental office’s quality based on their appearence. When it was finally my turn I had one guy give me my x-​ray, another person did the initial inspection, then finally the doctor. I was told that I had 2 cavities that needed filling (no suprise weak teeth run in my family). I got both my cavities filled, one bottom and one top molar. The next day my teeth were more sensitive than they were before I had them filled! So I went back and the doctor (a different one from my first visit) said to give it a few weeks. OK, so a few weeks go by and still super sensitive (I am now stuck with only chewing on my left side-​which is probably giving me more cavaities). I go back in and (yet a different dentist again) said, well looks like you’ll need a root canal, the filling didn’t do what I was hoping it would… seriously?! I told her if she didn’t think the filling would fix it why didn’t she just do a root canal? Her answer was that most people that come to that office can’t afford root canals so they just fill everything. Oh My God! She asked if I would like to schedule a root canal… um yeah NO! Definitly going somewhere else for that procedure-​I already get super anxious for fillings let a lone a root canal at this place. I wish I would have done more Unilocal research before coming here, save yourself the pain and do NOT come here.

CONSUMER BEWARE. DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT GO TO THIS DENTIST. The dental hygenist if you dare call him that was very rough. He kept snagging and scrapping my gums. Also when I had xrays and the guy taking my xrays was telling me a little too much about his personal life. I had two fillings replaced there, because i was under the impression that was what I had to have done based on what they told me in the consultation, and they were deep with new cavities, but I did not know this until my teeth were drilled wide open and the dentist told me i will need a root canal and a crown on one of the two teeth AFTER THEY DID THE DRILLING. Why couldnt they see this on the xrays? She said there is not much of my tooth left and she will put the filling on both of my huge gaping open teeth. I wanted composite fillings at first UNTIL she told me about the problems concerning my two teeth that I was very unaware of. I was about to ask her if analgram was stronger the composite because I need something strong there to support the tooth until I can get a root canal and a crown, which I might add they should of just told me that I needed in the first place given the large size of the cavity and deepness of the filling. BEFORE I COULD EVEN ASK THE DENTIST ABOUT WHICH FILLING TYPE IS STRONGER SHE TOLD ME TO NOT ASK HER ANYTHING ANYMORE AND TO SAVE ALL MY QUESTIONS FOR AFTER SHE IS DONE. ALSO SHE WAS VIOLENT WITH THAT DRILL AND WAS CAUSING ME ALOT OF PAIN.
After she put the composite filling she did not polish it and left it rough. I did not notice this until I was in the car. It was too late to go back inside because I was one of the last patient of the day and they locked the door behind me.
The office staff wanted to charge me $ 480.00 for two filling replacements when I have Metlife dental. I asked them WHY is it so much when I have insurance??? They consulted each other in a corner and then called the insurance company and then told me it is actually $ 150.00 and that they thought my insurance was maxed out. I MEAN ALL THEY HAD TO DO TO BE SURE IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS JUST MAKE ONE SIMPLE PHONE CALL TO FIND OUT FIRST BEFORE TRYING TO OVER CHARGE ME.
CONSUMER BEWARE DO NOT GO TO THIS DENTAL OFFICE THEY ARE IDIOTS AND VERY UNPROFESSIONAL.

Over the course of my life, I had seen approximately 30 dentists. Now I go to I Frankel Dental Group. They have a number of dentists who tend to specialize in particular matters from the extraction of wisdom teeth to braces to implants, etc. The staff is always courteous and kind as well.
This time I had a complicated dental problem and Dr. Hao Li was assigned to handle it. I found him to be very professional, considerate and meticulous. He went out of his way to make sure I was comfortable and experienced minimum, if any, pain or discomfort. The dental work he did was the best I had received. He is perhaps the best dentist I ever had.

I strongly suspect they are liars and fraudulent. I lived very close to this place between 2003 and 2007, so I went there for a check up in 2003. I thought the service was okay. Nice people working there for the most part. But I found myself going there very, very frequently. It seemed like every check up revealed four or five cavities! I also apparently required a deep cleaning every time my insurer allowed. I had no idea why this was — –I felt no pain and I was quite diligent about brushing and flossing…
The last time I was there (in 2007) i was told I had four cavities and that I again needed a deep cleaning — I almost cried. The dentist said comforting words to me and suggested I return soon to get the work done. But I was moving across town that week so I ended up following up with my dental issues somewhere else.
After putting it off for a month, I went to another dentist. He found no cavities. And no need for another painful, expensive deep cleaning. «Its obvious you brush and floss regularly,» he told me. I’ve been going there for three years now. I have no aches, no pain, nothing. I’m now convinced that Frankel’s was lying to me, making me suffer and have to shell out hundreds of dollars in co-​payments in order to make money.

I accidentally found out about this office because they were the only ones in the area who were listed nearby that did the «snoreguard» device. I’ve been there a few times just for a snoreguard, then I had a really bad toothache and these were the only people I knew (we live in Canada a large part of the year).
The dentists were all very experienced, and the office is super friendly and efficient. It is not super modern, with wood paneling, etc and it looks like a time machine from the 70’s. I had three dentists look over my tooth situation, and they were all very caring, very experienced, and very involved. They saved my weird tooth with swift service.
I’ve recommended this place to my wife, and she’ll be coming here when we are in L.A. They do everything, and everybody here is caring.

So, my first LA job came with crappy Cigna Dental HMO that included around 5 dentists in all of Los Angeles county. This dentist’s office was closest to my house, and had a mediocre review on citysearch, making him more appealing than the unknowns.
This was, certainly, the worst dental experience of my life. To be fair though, prior to my Frankel visit, I had seen the same dentist for all of my memorable-​life. Incidentally, there are about a bazillion dentists working here. I think Frankel’s diploma was on the wall, and he graduated in like ’56. So I doubt he does much dental work these days.
Anyway, this is the sort of place where a different person does your xrays, a different person does your cleaning, a different person goes does the exam, etc. The office itself is pretty junky and feels a bit like the dentist-​office version of Motel 6. But, like Motel 6, it works in a pinch.
But I really wasn’t comfortable here. My new dentist (Brent Maiden) said that the two cavities the Frankel office filled were adequate (incidentally, the 2^nd & 3^rd cavities of my life…), but then he said that ‘if you can’t say anything nice you shouldn’t say anything at all.’
I think, should I end up on a crappy D-​HMO again, I would just pay the money to see a real dentist. Maybe it’s just me, but I am attached to the idea of seeing the same dentist, year after year.