Mobaser James N, DDS

H-​O-​R-​R-​I-​B-​L-​E!!! Please, I beg you to stay away. My story is too long to tell but what I can tell you in short is this — he did more damage to my mouth than he did fixing and 4 grand later I’m still working with another dentist to fix my teeth. I’ve even had to have surgery after seeing this way. Please, stay away.

He’s fine! I don’t know what all the hysteria is about in the other reviews.
The office is clean, and the staff is very nice. Dr. Mobaser is very nice! He took a few minutes to get to know me, and he told me a little bit about himself, and then we got to work. He explained everything to me before proceeding.
I’m taking one point off, because they don’t have a digital x-​ray machine, but other than that, I have no complaints.

Everything you’ve read here is 100% true. My wife and I went here without having seen these reviews because she searched Unilocal for Silverlake Dental and didn’t realize that Dr. Mobaser was one and the same.
Upon first walking into the office the filth and sudden oppressive feelings of despair will fill you with a nearly overwhelming desire to flee. Push through that, and you will be faced with a darkly eccentric man who berates his staff and patronizes you as though you were a child.
His work was beyond shoddy, and in both mine and my wife’s case we had to have the work either touched up or totally redone the next day by a real dentist. His hand shakes as though he has Parkinson’s (I’m not sure what it is but it’s definitely a symptom of something) and because of this he skipped a grinder hard off of my tooth several times.
It really can’t be overstated how dirty this place was. There are weird yellow drip stains down the wall, everything looks dark and dingy, and the fish tank is a science experiment. Those poor fish deserve much better. For whatever reason the bathroom was clean.
I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that you want to stay far, far away from this place. I would prefer to attempt my own dental work before I went back there.
Seriously though, don’t go here. Ever.

DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT
Not Kidding!

This dentist is scary and possibly out of his mind. I went to this office sight unseen (I didn’t realize I had to pre-​screen dentists, but now I will) and regretted it as soon as I walked in. Not too clean — crappy papers taped to the walls everywhere. The doctor yelled at his assistant the ENTIRE time he worked on me. Anything from the calendar not being on the right page on the wall, to her not holding the suction in the right place. Very unnerving to have someone drilling on your teeth while showing anger and yelling at someone. His hands were a little shaky too… He told me to stop dwelling on the past after I asked him why I had so many cavities. He said, «You must move forward — into the present. Don’t even think about the future. Think about the now…» He may have had more to say after that, but he got distracted at something his assistant did and began to insult her and then continued to drill on my teeth — with NO DRUGS! He said I didn’t need any numbing since he wouldn’t hit a nerve! Insane! Don’t go here.

Ya’ll scared the crap out of me– thank you fellow reviewers. I got this guy with my insurance because he was the only dentist office to return my phone calls.
He wasn’t all that bad, but I definitely want to check out another dentist before having the dental work done he suggested.
I came in for a cleaning (which wasn’t the best cleaning i’ve ever had). I left still feeling the «little sweaters» on my teeth (aka plaque).
I was also there to have him check some filings that I feel have gotten chipped over the years. Instead, he «found» 4 cavities and gave me a complex about my calcium spotted front teeth. The have never been an issue for me, but he acted as though people will judge me without having them capped. I almost had them done on the spot. I’m now glad I didn’t– they really don’t bother me.
His hands were very shaky when he was cleaning my teeth and the assistant had to tell him he missed one side of my mouth, so I’m hesitant to have fillings or really any dental work done here.
He is a very nice dentist, but I don’t think he is the dentist for me. I just have to find another dentist to give me a second opinion and to check these fillings which were my original concern.

OMG. Wow. I am speechless. Everything everybody else has written is correct. This guy is straight out of a horror movie. The reviewer comparing this guy to the doctor from Minority Report is right on. Blood everywhere, horrible manners, place with filthy, staff seemed very untrained. 5 minutes in I wanted to just jump out of my seat and bolt.
I should have checked Unilocal

one word. CRIED. seriously i did. 1^st thing I said when I walked in was I can’t open my mouth. Then the nurse took me to the xray room. She began by trying to stick these plates in my mouth, so I mumbled again, «i can’t open my mouth’. She got the Dr. who proceeded to try to wedge my mouth open with his fingers. hence the crying… Then they began to give me this speech that they were only trying to help me and I must figure out some way to open my mouth. I got up went to the lobby where my BF was a waiting for me. MY BF asked can you give her medicine or something, and the doctor began to yell «DO YOU WANT ANTIBIOTICS OR NOT, DO YOU WANT ANTIBIOTICS OR NOT». Needles to say we left for a second opinion.
I can not say how thankful I was to Dr. Janet Kazanjian (who has great reviews). Basically the reason I can not open my mouth is because when you have an infection that gets into your chewing muscles they stop working. She told me that in the 1^st min. She didn’t charge me anything and she recommended me to an oral surgeon who saw me within 30 mins of the call she put in for me.

While these reviews are incredibly sad and scary, I am somewhat relieved to know that I am not the only one terrified of this man and his «professional» practices. I was desperate to get in for a cleaning and check up so I made this office my primary provider on my insurance and even got them to fax in my info so that I could get an appointment right away (without doing my homework.)
My appointment was at around 4 in the afternoon and when I went in, I was the first patient of the day. Despite numerous phone conversations between myself, the office, and my insurance, he was unable to find my insurance information that had been faxed. He became impatient, suspicious, and almost hostile with me over this issue. I half thought this would be the end of my visit to the office. While I excused myself to the restroom he managed to find the papers and my desperation for dental care convinced me to stay.
The X-​ray fiasco took a good hour or so with him shoving hard sharp objects in my mouth and telling me his life story. He then took me to an exam room to wait for the x-​rays to be finished. After some time with questions/​paperwork/​etc a walk-​in arrived. While he attended to this person, I must have dosed off. I was reclined in the chair and woke up some 2 hours after I had originally walked through the front door.
He eventually returned and tossed paperwork at me (while I still lay reclined in the chair) yelling at me for not signing off on every line. I explained that I did not see the need for me to sign off for procedures I was not having done. He got increasingly angry, so I simply did as he asked. I was relatively certain that I could avoid undergoing an unplanned root canal.
After all this I still stayed in the hope that I would receive the cleaning that I had come in for. Instead he showed me X-​rays of what he claimed to be my 15 or so cavities, insisted that I view them in his mirror, gave me a quick once over with the spinny toothbrush thing and asked when I wanted to have the fillings done.
I left furious that I had wasted all this time not even having the minimal work done that I had requested. My teeth were no cleaner that I am able to get them on a daily basis. Even with the microscopes attached to his glasses, he seemed blind to the fact that he hadn’t cleaned my teeth at all. Though now that I read other’s reviews, I count my blessings.
I am now into week 2 of trying to get my Xrays from them. They were not prepared when I was told to come and get them. And this week I have been unable to reach anyone in the office when I call, which was about 5 times yesterday.
This man is a frightening excuse for a health care practitioner and I wouldn’t go back to see him if he were the only dentist in 100 miles.
Do not put yourself through this. Tell everyone you know.
And, by the way, aren’t there some type of repercussions for incompetence of this scale???

My dental provider sent me a well-​written, brief letter this week. My dentist, Dr. Mobaser, would no longer be my dentist. All my records will be transferred to some other office.
Well, since I no longer have to live in fear of reviewing Dr. Mobaser only to have him stab my eyes out with sharp dental tools at my next appointment, I’ll proceed…
This is the scariest place to get dental work done. Seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised if Dr. Mobaser takes time in between seeing patients to sing «You’ll Be A Dentist.»
He literally screams at his staff when he’s not berating them. He has no confidence in them. At one point during a routine cleaning, he got up from the stool and walked over to the reception area to commandeer the phone from his receptionist.
Making his patients feel at ease was clearly not a priority. I don’t think he ever learned my name, he simply addressed me as «My dear».
CREEPY!
When he wasn’t distracted by micromanaging his crew, he would initiate random philosophical conversations. How do you expect someone to respond when their mouth is full of sharp objects? Captive audience, I guess.
That letter I received from CIGNA is probably a blessing in disguise. A smarter patient would have switched dentists after their first appointment… or walked across the street to drink their worries away at Silver Lake Wine.
He did earn one star for helping me improve my brushing technique.

Horrid. It was like something out of a bad slasher movie. I don’t have cavities. I’ve never had a problem with my teeth. I have slightly sensitive gums — but they were gushing blood when I left here. The whole time he was trying to up-​sell me a shot. (I’ve never been numb for teeth cleaning???) Shortly after he started working I was crying from the pain — but he wouldn’t stop. When he did stop, it was only to ask if I was willing to pay for the shot yet — since it was such a good deal «only $ 100 for me and $ 500 for my insurance…» There was blood everywhere. Maybe he was trying to be extra rough so I would buy a shot?
Please don’t go here.

I thought to myself — wow, they are so close to home. There’s parking. They take my insurance. I can get coffee before/​after. I mean it is a dentist, but how bad can it be?
Terrible. Terrible.
My appointment was at 11:30.
I didn’t see the dentist until after 2pm. He came in with a plastic shield on and dirty blood stained gloves from his other patient. There were flecks of something (shudders) on his plastic face guard. None of the equipment was covered in plastic… I should have run.
When they took my x-​rays, they put the contact paper in my mouth with one (the only) holder that the technician grabbed off the shelf with BARE HANDS. In my mouth.
They tried to upsell me to getting a shot of novacaine for a basic cleaning, AND I ended up having to go somewhere else because they didn’t do a thorough job.
They overcharged me, and my insurance had to get involved — it was f-​ed up enough that the insurance company insisted they return my money directly.
When I tried to get my x-​rays from then, it cost me $ 35 dollars and after telling them a week in advance, they STILL were not ready when I went in to pick them up.
And, by the way — they told me I had 11 cavities.
I’ve since been to TWO (two) other dentists who have looked at my x-​rays. The ones that Silverlake Dentist took.
I have three cavities. Not 11.
Please don’t go here. I still freak out when I think about how dirty and gross my experience was.

Ok, I wrote a good review, and now I’m revoking it. I had a great experience here about 4 years ago, and I had a nightmare this last time. In fact, they tried to schedule me for another appointment and I cancelled.
Basically, Dr Mobaser yelled at his staff and told them how incompetent they are and was somewhat insulting to me. He told me he was tired of being a dentist and wanted to retire. He did dental work that I didn’t want to have done even after I told him no (he wanted to pull out a filling I just had done last year and replace it– why do all dentists want to do this! It’s such a scam!). And on top of it, he drilled into a nerve and when I jerked he told me to be still. I bled for two days afterwards. I haven’t been able to feel my lower lip since.
Although he may have been a fine dentist before, I think he’s tired, jaded, grouchy and rough. Don’t make the same mistake I did– I doubted the reviews, and even wrote this,
«He was the most gentle dentists I’ve ever gone to. He made sure I felt comfortable, allowed me to watch what he did with a mirror to reduce my anxiety (because I prefer to know what’s happening), and was playing Sinatra in the office. I have not witnessed him being rude or sexist in any way.»
I was living in the past…

I’ve never written a review here, but after the horrible experience I had at Silverlake Dental, I felt I needed to say something.
I highly urge you to seek dental care elsewhere. My teeth hurt all the time since going to Dr. Mobaser. He yells at his staff the whole time he works, and berates the patient if something hurts.
The number of cavities I had escalated as he worked. He had me come back a number of times, and I always had two or three more cavities to work on. I spent almost three grand over the course of a couple months and, somehow I still have two or three cavities to fix.
He’s condescending and rude, and snaps at the patient. The whole vibe of the place is sick and cruel. Very, very bad place. Go anywhere but here.

I cannot recommend him.

This is the worst dentist I have ever been to. He was hostile, rude and didn’t wait until the novacaine took affect before drilling. When I pointed this out to him by flinching in pain his response was, «behave patient.»
Even worse… his dental assistant is his wife. She is so afraid of her husband that when he leaves the room she apologizes for him?! I felt like I was in a bad surrealist play.
Do NOT go to this Dr. SERIOUSLY.

Update as of ⁴⁄₂₀₀₇: I didn’t realize how much I hated this guy until my tooth broke and I was up all night dreading going to see him. (I got to go somewhere else:)
Dr. Mobaser is hostile and very abusive to his staff. He got progressively nastier as I went, screaming for the techs to leave the room then yelling if they weren’t there. I’m with stacy l. — do NOT go see this dentist!
If you’re OK with old school guys and people who are good but not excellent communicators in English, this is an OK place. I never have to wait more than 10 minutes and Dr. Mobaser is truly an artist. He does not like you to leave with your teeth looking less than perfect.
Don’t come looking for a good bedside manner or gentleness, though.
Oddity: Since English isn’t his first language, I noticed when he’s concentrating Dr. Mobaser kind of loses his words. So while he’s drilling, he says funny things like «Patient, open your mouth!» «Patient!» I didn’t even know he was talking about me the first time I went.
Pros: hates causing pain, interesting philosophical talks, and a kick ass strip mall with a yummy coffee shop, Seven Crows bookstore, and Gingergrass restaurant.