Martha E Barragan, DDS

Very professional staff!
I was referred by my boyfriend and couldn’t be happier with my experience. I have now, referred family members and friends and they have also had a great experience.
Primary language seems to be Spanish but they are very welcoming to all of their customers. I only speech English and they have been so professional and caring.
Love the family atmosphere and the doctor is very gentle. Can’t believe how well my root canal was! I had no pain and she was so gentle!

Been coming here for years. Very professional doctor and staff. Never had any complications with any of my treatments and they always seem to remember their clients.
They have a small parking lot in the back of the building which seems to be always full and I cannot parallel park on the street. Lol but other than that I am very pleased and would recommend!

Bad parking, yes. Spanish, yes. Hickies on assistants, idk. But good, cheap denstistry, hell yes! They rarely (if ever) charge you outside of what your insurance pays. And they do good work, at least for me. They are not trying to get rich off me & they do what I need done for free! I’m staying.

I think one star is too much for these so called dentist!
I agree with Eilo B.
they started working on my husband’s teeth without looking at X-​rays.
I got my teeth clean at the same time and the water splashed all over my face, it looks like they are racing to see who cleans more teeth at the end of the day, I am thinking that they get paid by how many mouths they clean!
for the other people that have good reviews you’ve been fortunate to had a good experience here!

I didn’t get braces here, but my brother is currently coming here for orthodontic treatment, not my first choice of recommendations. All though, their staff is nice. Well, some of them.

I had my lower wisdom teeth extracted here.
I had to wait till Thursday since the Maxillofacial (Oral Surgeon) is only there on those days and my wisdom teeth were fully bent inside the gum so only a professional surgeon could do my extractions.
I was very pleased. :-)
Will have to go back soon for my uppers.
If you’re looking for an affordable Maxillofacial Oral Surgeon ($ 350 per tooth, since I am a cash patient) this is the place! Other places charged $ 450 to $ 650 per tooth for this type of surgery. Glad I found this place! :-D

I wouldn’t even give this place one star. I came here for almost 4 years for my orthodontic treatment. When I got my braces they told me I was going to have the at most 2 and a half years. Those were lies. Well to start they have terrible, but I mean terrible service. You don’t make appointments to change your wires or rubber bands you just go in every two weeks. Well I would go in and wait over an hour to be seen when people that came after me got to go before me. I’m not the person who likes to complain so I would just sit there and wait. Once I was in they would remove my bands and the doctor would come and «check» my teeth and the progress. Then her assistant would finish up, mind you these assistants sometimes did not know what they were doing. It never failed once I got in my car something was wrong, my wire was to long, one of the bands was crooked, the next day one of my a bands would fall off. Seriously it was the same thing every two weeks. Also when one of my brackets would fall of they wouldn’t put it back on because I didn’t need it according to them. Also there is this girl Mari, who knows what she is but she is very, very rude. Just seeing her face you’ll realize that she hates her job and what she does. She always looks mad and when she greets you its not friendly whatsoever. Another thing is that they always have new people when I go in, there is always at least two new people. Well after 3 years and seven month I was fed up. I was so frustrated because of the way they treated me every time I went in. I called the secretaries and told complained about everything and asked if I could just get my braces off because I was so tiered of this place. Well two weeks later I go in… I was greeted right away and didn’t even wait 3 minutes in the lobby. Guess who helped me? My favorite girl Mari, not. Well she was talking with me and making conversation with me. I asked her if she could put on one of the brackets that had fallen of the month before and that they didn’t want to put on two weeks prior because the wire of the other bracket was cutting me. She asked the doctor and she was like «yes, yes put both of them on for her» By both she meant the one she didn’t want them to put on me two weeks before and the one I had been missing for over a year!!! Well Mari puts them on and when she leaves I feel a burning sensation on my lip I just wiped it and didn’t think much of it… Well I get to my car and there’s a huge cold sore looking mark on my lip where I felt the burning sensation! She burned my lip with the liquid used to glue on the bracket. She also glues on my bracket almost to my gums all crooked and she did not use the uv light to glue on the bracket, she used the suction to glue it on. What a coincidence two weeks after I complain and specifically mention her name I end up walking out of there with a burned lip and crooked brackets. I got home almost in tears and I decided never will I go back. Yesterday I started my new treatment at western dental although I will have to pay for my braces all over again and lost over $ 3000 at this place I believe it is worth it. Also the orthodontist at western dental told me that he wont be able to fix my midline entirely, it 3 mm to the right, which is a lot, because the extractions they did here. Now thanks to these unprofessional people my dream of perfect teeth won’t be so much a reality! Think twice before stepping in here!

Family Owned business that has been around for quite some time. I’ve personally been coming here for over 4 yrs now and never had a complaint (besides most patients that come in here look like they are from mexico) now that’s the truth. If that doesn’t bother you then hey you’re on the right the right track to finding a friendly neighborhood dentist. The service in most areas, my braces took a while to complete but well worth the wait. Also they provided a permanent retainer for me so that my teeth would not move in the near future.
So far so good! Go on give them a try =)

i came here for a wisdom teeth extraction. the lobby is very small and mostly hispanics you see here. but the ladies on the front desk do speak english also. the surgeon is only here on thursdays. he is a great surgeon. he explained to me the procedures. he checked on me constantly by asking me if i was doing ok. the extraction was quick and felt no pain. i recommend this place for anyone who needs there wisdom teeth out. plus this plave is super affordable trust me. ive called other places and they charged over 2,000. give them a call. i onlu recommend this place for wisdom extractions. i dont know how they do with the other stuff. hope uou guys find this review useful.

I found the office through my daughter in law, who had a number of root canals done by them. I and my wife have been going there for a few years. Excellent dentists — mother and daughter, very friendly staff, and everyone speaks Spanish, but most everyone also speaks English. The dentists speak perfect English. The parking is fine, the office is not slick, but then the prices are reasonable and the environment very friendly and positive. Most of the clients are Spanish speaking, I speak a little, and my wife none.

You really do have to speak Spanish to go here. I believe that the staff here is very helpful. Parking is bad, there is a small lot in the back of the office and it is on a busy street. The waiting room is pretty small too. Once again, staff is very nice.

I totally agree with Vanessa on this. Maybe the other person is cool with everyone having hickies, but dang! the place is not clean, people swap from one person to another and they start working on the teeth without looking at xrays. I was there for my first personal visit for a chipped tooth. without reviewing the Xray she started drilling my tooth. Next when the Xray came, I heard her tell the persistent assistant that this is #14 and not #12. I figured she was talking about the tooth #. So that would mean that she took an Xray for the wrong tooth.
When I had my first Xrays taken a couple weeks back, she messed up 6 times on the same tooth. Even then they were talking about Root canal, but some other female Doctor came in and confirmed that I didn’t need it.
I looked at the Xray and I could clearly see that there was no issue with the root.
So, she did a root canal anyways and told me that I wouldn’t be in any pain. I never had pain to begin with. No swelling Nothing. Just a chipped tooth.
now Im on penicillin and pain motrin. waiting to go back in a week to get the tooth filled.

Never go here. EVER.
This place is wretched. I found this dentists office by flipping through the yellow pages. Yes, not a very effective way of getting information on a dentist, but I was in desperate need of a root canal. At that point I would have gladly gotten a back alley root canal. I was in PAIN. This place was very close to my apartment and took my whack ass Kaiser/​Delta insurance, so I figured why the hell not go there?
I wish I thought it through.
So I get to the office, and the front desk staff is lovely. Very nice, especially the man who works there. I explain that I am in super pain and they get me in immediately. I go upstairs to get in the chair, and I notice that every single dental assistant has huge, disgusting hickeys on their necks. Eeewwww, did I just walk into high school again? Plus, they were not very friendly at all. Ah well, I thought to myself. We all have bad days, and hickeys happen. So, I get in, get my root canal, and scheduled a follow up appointment.
The actual root canal was flawless. The only things that I was displeased with at that point were the hickeys (gross to look at) and the fact that the office spoke Spanish and wouldn’t offer translation. I would ask what they were saying, figuring it was about me, and they would clam up. Um, not cool. I don’t care if you’re discussing what size drill bits to use, you should tell your patient what you are saying. The cute little Vietnamese ladies who used to do my nails and toes always would tell me what they were saying, especially if it was about me! Maybe they’d lie a bit, but they never would dismiss my curiosity or take it as an insult. Also, the neighborhood that the office is in is a bit seedy, but I didn’t care – my mouth hurt!
Now here is where it gets a bit more weird.
I go back to get fitted for a crown, and figure that I might as well get some other cavities filled here. I walk in, and the girls have more hickeys! Not the same ones faded, but new hickeys! Yuck!
Not one to judge a book by its cover, I stay and see the dentist. I also needed to get a temporary crown to sit on the root canal tooth. What a lousy temporary crown! Seriously, there was such a huge space between the temp and my other tooth that I had to floss food out of it every time I ate. Sounds hygienic, right? Well, lemme tell you, flossing that much fucks your gums up! When food was compacted between those teeth, it hurt so much. I figured what the hell, though, since I was getting my permanent in 2 weeks.
Anyhoo, apparently I had one cavity on my upper left side, a cavity that had not been bothering me at all. They administer the filling (note – Dr. Barragan was not doing this tooth, an associate was) that day. I had no pain on that side of my mouth, so I asked the dentist and his aid what they would be doing. They got incredibly snappy at me for asking, as if I was questioning them. Hey, I’m no dental hygienist, pal – I just want to know what you’re doing with that giant needle in my mouth. And, again with the Spanish. I find it rude that they wouldn’t tell me what they were saying.
After that filling, I haven’t been able to chew on that side of my mouth. I went in repeatedly to tell them I was in pain and that I knew where this was headed – root canal city. They would not work on that tooth. I was offered a freebie of Sensodyne, and basically was told to screw. They said they wanted to wait and see what happens. How the hell long can you wait and see what happens to a cavity?
I should have left then, but I needed to get fitted for a crown for the tooth that initially got me to this nuthouse. I get in for the third or fourth time, and my hickey-​laden hygienist comes in and gets me prepped. Dr. Barragan comes in to numb my mouth, and numbs the wrong side of my mouth. The wrong side of my mouth, people! WTF?
I decided that I did not want these people to put a permanent crown in for me. I bolted out of there.
So here is why this place is horrid:
Gross, hickey laden assistants with terrible attitudes (to be fair, the one with the braces was a doll).
They speak other languages around you and don’t like when you ask them what they are saying. And, I swear, I didn’t ask what they were saying like an ignorant American. I’d say «gee, it sounds like my tooth is in pretty rough shape, eh?» Dead silence.
They hurt you. That tooth they wouldn’t fix? I got a root canal on it today. Different dentist.
They don’t pay attention. Wrong side of my mouth was numb.
I will never, ever come here. I’m sure everyone here is very nice in their own way, but the customer service is terrible, especially if you don’t speak Spanish that well. I also don’t like doctors or dentists who don’t like to explain the procedures to you. I reiterate – I will never, ever come back here.