Beck H Curtis, DMD

My daughter’s experience with Curtis Beck was a total disaster. First, he was in such a hurry to put on braces, he unilaterally on an early visit decided to pull out my daughter’s two baby K-​9 teeth. Then after a year in braces when her permanent K-​9 teeth still had not materialized, he was pushing us to go to an oral surgeon to have them pulled down with surgery (claiming there was a problem (BTW — at a cost of over $ 3,000). Secondly, he was also saying that her dental hygiene was at risk as well as possible permanent staining of her teeth if she was to remain in braces much longer waiting for her two teeth to appear. Our own research stated that these teeth could take 18 months or longer to appear. Our Dentist also concurred and took X-​rays that showed no abnormality with the progress of these teeth as well as her teeth and gums were fine from a hygienic perspective. As a result, we wanted to wait longer rather than put my daughter through unnecessary surgery; however, upon each visit he was insisting that these teeth would not come down and we needed to take immediate action. He became belligerent, frustrated and outright rude to us becoming ever increasingly impatient to the point that my 12 year old daughter became upset at every visit and my wife and I were becoming more and more angry.
Finally, on the last visit he was so rude and insisting that he was right and we were «delusional» that there was no problem, and that «WE WERE WASTING HIS TIME» we finally became fed up with his arrogance and attitude and quit his practice to seek another orthodontist even though it will cost us additional money in switching. The end of the story was that in fact my daughter’s K-​9 teeth did appear 60 days after our last Beck visit and everything is fine and normal and finishing her care with a new orthodontist. Beck was rude, belligerent, threatening and also lied repeatedly that there was a problem with my daughter’s teeth and tried to instill fear upon us at every visit just so he can rush things along on his timetable. I would NOT recommend him to anyone.