Kathleen J Nuckles, DDS

Highly ethical, outstanding credentials, warm, accommodating and friendly. Her office staff also are so friendly, efficient and helpful. So lucky to have found her! Our daughter actually enjoys her visits. Thank you Dr. Nuckles for the excellent care!

Great orthodontist! She is caring, knowledgeable and professional! She chooses the best treatment for her patients. She tells her honest opinion and tries to help as much as she can.

I just left her office after a consult in which she gave me lots of information and options. Sometimes her staff are not so nice, but she is always SO nice. She has fixed problems on some patients that other orthodontists have caused.

I just had the best experience with Dr. Nuckles. I see another poor review about a free consultation. Well, mine was free and no questions asked so that isn’t true. I went to another orthodontist and a dentist specializing in Invisalign. The other orthodontist said Invisalign could not do what I needed. Then the dentist said in a flash second how perfect it would be for me. I was confused how I could get two contradicting results. My trustworthy dentist and my good friend who is a client with Dr. Nuckles both recommended her. She was knowledgable in a way I did not get with the other two. She explained and showed me samples of why I should not spend my money on Invisalign even though it could do what I needed. She was not there to make money off of me. I trusted her by how she spoke to me, and I could tell she knew her stuff more than the other two.
So shop around is my advice (meaning don’t trust others) and definitely use Dr. Nuckles if you need Invisalign. I trust her and to me that deserves as many stars as possible.

excellent with both patients and parents

I just called to schedule a free consultation. They asked if I have seen an orthodontist and I said yes, I have seen two and they are different ends of the scale. She said they charge $ 125 for a «second opinion» but that it is rolled into the fee if I choose to go with them.
Orthodontic services cost between $ 2,000 to $ 5,000+. It seems like orthodontist offices assume that once you step into their office that is the only office you are allowed to see. If I am going to pay that much money on a service (most insurances don’t cover orthodontics), I should be able to shop around.
Dr. Nuckles website offers «complimentary consultations», «no strings attached» but that is a LIE. If you are an informed consumer who wants to make sure they are working with the right orthodontist, you will have to pay just to see if it is the right fit.
The good thing is that it saved me an hour of bothering to go to their office to find out they have bad business practices.
Maybe she is a good orthodontist who doesn’t need patients who want to shop around, she wants them just to rely on her reputation. Well, I didn’t know her reputation, that’s why I wanted to meet with her.
Not anymore.

I started Invisalign at this office several years back. I was going through *a lot* of stress and found it difficult to remember to put in or change my trays, but had paid for the entire set of Invisalign trays in full early in the treatment. Well, since they already had my money it seemed like they couldn’t care less whether I followed up on treatment — or more importantly — try to help me to resolve some of the difficulties I was having, such as PAIN. They just didn’t care. Toward the end of my treatment, I had a new job and wasn’t able to make the appointments during their very limited and strict office hours — 1.5 hours away from where I worked in heavy L.A. traffic (I learned the hard way how rude the staff could be once when I was late). Plus, their parking was non-​existent and they don’t validate.
Well, one day I just happened to be walking by my apartment building’s common area and noticed an Invisalign box with my name on it sitting on *top* of the mail boxes — not securely inside my small bin because the package didn’t fit. It had been sitting there for days. It contained my remaining six or so trays with a note from Dr. Nuckles saying that they «simply did not have room for them.» They weren’t sent to me by Fed Ex or registered mail, or even in a separate box — it was just the regular flimsy Invisalign box where they would pull my trays from at the orthodontist office. No phone call letting me know they were sending the trays, either. I was floored that they would be so irresponsible with such expensive items to send it by unreliable, regular U.S. mail. It was a major «F-​U, thanks for your $ 4,000, be on your crooked teeth way.»
A year later I wanted to resume treatment (elsewhere!) and left a message for Dr. Nuckles requesting a call back because I wanted to know how to start again. I never got a call back. I’d never recommend this orthodontist. They are inflexible, uncaring, rude, and as an other reviewer too politely said «commercial» (read: greedy).

I Think Dr. Nuckles is a great orthodontist! She is very professional and she has a great staff-​both front office and back! Her chairside assistant, Michelle, has been with her «forever». It’s nice to see an office that has consistent staff. It does get really busy in the afternoons-​but that’s to be expected.
Dr.Nuckles even saw my step daughter when she was living in Los Angeles mid treatment and was able to fill in and keep the treatment going as planned.

We recommend Dr. Nuckles to EVERYBODY! My daughter still had lots of baby teeth at 13, but several orthodontists were ready to strap her in a chair and put her through «phases» of braces that would have taken extra time and money to complete the work. Dr. Nuckles told us it would be fine to wait until her permanents came in. We did and are so happy with the results. She and her entire staff are kind and professional, very informative and willing to explain and listen. They worked with us on a payment plan that was great for uninsured patients. We asked LOTS of parents for referrals and I’m so glad we picked Dr. Nuckles — my daughter is 16 and has a beautiful smile and we know we made the right choice, especially because she loves her smile and learned to love her teeth and respect her retainer! Thank you so much, Dr. Nuckles!