Randall Broom, DDS

I am glad I found this dentist on Unilocal.I went in for putting a crown on one of the back teeth and he did a great job. He educated me through the whole process. He was very reasonable in his prices and his office folks were super engaging. Great dentist and I switched to his office after that visit. Other dentist I went to always charged a lot and I was glad I found Dr.Broom.

I’ve been going to Dr. Broom for years. He’s a great dentist. He genuinely cares about his patients, listens to their concerns and gets you in and out in a reasonable amount of time. I’ll keep going to him as long as I can.

I have had three appointments with this dentist, both cleanings and fillings. I have had no problems with the service here, although it should be noted wait times are 1 – 2 months. I am not capable of evaluating the quality of the dentistry work other than to report that there have been no obvious problems.

In trying to set up an initial appointment, I was met by a rude receptionist who curtly told me they’re not taking any new customers. SO unnecessary. Based on first impression, I would definitely NOT recommend this dentist office to anyone.

Best dentist I’ve ever had.
Dr Broom explains what is going on in your mouth an open, detailed, factual, but completely non-​judgemental way. He gives you your options and lets you decide what you want to do. No pressure, no upselling, just a genuine desire to do what is best for *you*. So refreshing!

Mr. Broom is really a nice guy. I’ve seen him 2 times now and he is very personable and respectable of different opinions. He spent the time to talk to me about my options regarding removing a amalgam filling. He never makes you feel rushed and is willing to answer any questions/​concerns. I would recommend him to anyone in the area. Parking is also free when you validate with the office. Nice People!

He’s really about making sure you get done what is needed — no frivolity. Thank you!

Incredible. The doctor patched me up after breaking my veneer. Really nice guy, looks like a small family dentist office. Great treatment. I’m moving to the area, and he will become my primary dentist.
Thank you!!!

I agree with Rachel P. Dr. Broom was really nice and professional but his hygienist was rough with the polishing (touching the metal polishing tool to my teeth and lips multiple times). For a general cleaning I would cringe to go back.

I just went here and really enjoyed the service. I was seen quickly after entering Dr. Broom was friendly and honest. He pointed out a few minor concerns with my gum line and teeth alignment but recommended against doing anything because they were, again, minor. Other dentists often try to sell you on unnecessary procedures, this is not the case here. He also was happy to educate me on what he was doing and why. Finally, Broom seemed genuinely interested in getting to know me and where I was going with my studies.

I went to Dr Broom after avoiding dentists for a few years. I even started going in for regular visits every 6 months… and he got me to start daily flossing for the first time in my life.
He’s a great dentist who can put you at ease. Highly recommend!

All doctors/​lawyers/​professionals should be like Dr. Broom. We’ve been going to him for close to 10 years and never have we ever felt like he was trying to become rich off of us! He actually was an accountant but went back to dental school because he wanted to be able to spend more time with his family (not because he wanted to make more $$$).
He is conservative when it comes to X-​rays and procedures and will only do them if necessary. As a cash patient, I really appreciate this type of thinking since I pay for 100% of my care. When I first went in, I had a really shallow cavity forming and instead of filling it, he recommended I rinse every night with ACT. So I bought some at the drugstore and now 10 years later, the tooth is still fine!
Dr. Broom is friendly, genuine, VERY affordable, and a great dentist. It’s always a pleasure to see him, and now my 3 year old daughter is a patient as well!

Professional, Personable and Effective Dental Care
If you are a patient of Dr. Broom then you know he is a great dentist and his staff is top notch.
What is impressive about him is he really, really cares about his patients. He spends a lot of time working with you so you understand your treatment options, the procedures and after visit care.
My wife and I have had crowns, fillings and cleanings from Dr. Broom and every procedure was perfect the first time. We have been consistently impressed with his skill and treatment plans.
The rest of the staff are fantastic, friendly and professional.
The one thing you to need to understand and plan for is that your appointment will probably not start on time. The reason is that Dr. Broom spends as much time as necessary working with his patients explaining treatments and post treatment care. So don’t try to ‘squeeze’ in an appointment and you will be happy.

Dr Broom does dentistry right. Not many dentists/​orthodontists/​doctors truly are in it for the patient any more, but Dr Broom is one of them and you can sense it. There is good reason that he is so well reviewed. You will not be disappointed.

I went in for a cleaning & general checkup this week. Dr. Broom himself is a good dentist who is very friendly, but the hygenist was pretty rough. If you’re just in for a cleaning, I’d be tempted to say go somewhere else, but if you need actual dental work done, Dr. Broom seems like he’d be a good guy to go to.
The office set-​up is also a little awkward… the patient rooms aren’t entirely closed off from the reception area.

Dr. Broom is a fantastic dentist and I highly recommend him! He answered every single question I had and did a great job fixing a tooth that was starting to cause me pain. The procedure was quick and he made sure to keep pain to a minimum. I used to be afraid of going to the dentist after a bad experience I had in the past, but no more. Anyone needing dental attention should visit Dr. Broom!!!

I usually hate dentists but had a great experience with Dr. Broom and his staff. I feel like he genuinely cared about the health of my teeth and didn’t try to force any services or procedures on me. Insurance billing also went smooth so that is also a plus!
I recommend anybody looking for a new dentist to visit Dr. Broom.

I hadn’t been to a dentist in about 5 years and decided to see Dr. Broom after reading his Unilocal reviews. I had a wonderful experience! The staff is friendly and professional and Dr. Broom took time to answer my questions when they arose. The whole atmosphere overall was unintimidating (sometimes rare in a place like the dentist). I highly recommend Dr. Broom!

The Anderson, S.C. Jockey Lot is the largest flea market in the South.
In the late nineteen-​seventies, a dentist named Dr. Wagner set up a fully equipped AirStream trailer there and opened for business. He posted his prices outside the door: fillings for $ 16, extractions for $ 8. Since most of his clients were low-​income people like my dad, Dr. Wagner got a lot of 8-​dollar business.
A fat man with large forearms that made me afraid of him when I was little, he had been a dentist in the Army. Army dentists are officers, their patients enlisted personnel, mainly. The power disparity doesn’t force the cultivation of chair-​side manor and Dr. Wagner had none.
My aversion to dentists began there and endures until now. Because Dr. Wagner was also an unskilled practitioner, my identification of slipshod dental work as a class marker begins with him as well. In the same cursory fashion with which a woman appraises a man’s cuticles and shoes to infer the extent to which he takes care of himself, I register a person’s teeth. If his dental work looks as if it were performed by a renegade veterinarian, I conclude he’s one of me.
This colors my interactions with professionals of my class-​origin too. In 2005, when I met my divorce lawyer, she pulled up in a red Corvette and got out and smiled brightly to reveal a thin pewter-​colored line above her front choppers.
I liked her instantly.
But I ramble, so I’ll get to the business of reviewing Dr. Broom, whom I selected from the Unilocal directory because he shares a name with my mother’s fifth husband and because he’s received fulsomely positive reviews. The praise is warranted. In fact, Dr. Broom has so completely earned his shimmering reputation that I’ve frankly lingered a while over how to set out most effectively and creatively the collection of merits that make him that rarest of creatures: a dentist that I don’t dread to see.
The approach I’ve settled on involves contrasting him, point by point, with his predecessor, the anti-​hero who removed the tooth I asked Dr. Broom to bridge. I’ll call that feckless imposter Dr. Litter. Since he serves little purpose in his calling, I flatter myself that I do dual justice by appointing him the dark screen on which to project the simple virtues of his abler colleague.
(This time last year, I’d have written Dr. Litter a one-​star review and included his wife’s social security number in it. The scattering years that have gilded my head in silver have softened my heart a little too, I guess.)
When I told Dr. Litter I had a loose lower incisor, that sour, dyspeptic little grimacer began mumbling about treatment plans and ordered up a whole mouthful of X-​Rays. That’s a shady run on a patient’s insurance, this pissing away of coverage dollars on things not immediately necessary.
Dr. Broom took a single X-​Ray of a single tooth and asked permission before doing so. He mentioned a treatment plan, but carefully avoided the hard sell. He treated the work he was doing for me as an audition. So I am happy to discuss treatment plans with him all the live-​long day.
He also excels at pain management. A dentist always deadens the area around an extraction, of course, but if the tooth is a lower incisor, the dentist will optionally administer shots to the mandibular formen. These are extremely painful and often quite unnecessary.
Dr. Litter, channeling Dexter, administered these shots as a matter of course, then began yanking on the tooth before it was deadened. When I informed him that he was causing me agony, he seemed exasperated to find he was performing work on an actual, live human being. Stupid quack.
Dr. Broom administers these shots only if the local, less painful shot proves insufficient. In fact, I must really emphasize that at every stage of my treatment, Dr. Broom was solicitous of my comfort. He has the compassion and decency of a man who may not be terribly crazy about dentists himself.
Last of all, there’s the inchoate dimension of basic likability. To a greater extent than any other health professionals, dentists are sanctimonious tut-​tutters. They treat cavities as moral shortcomings. They really do. Dr. Litter thought bad teeth indicative of sin and considered deep cleanings to be a combined form both of ritual cleansing and fleshly mortification. I suspect that, as a boy, getting his teeth cleaned was a sort of hobby for him. Whether or not that’s true, he certainly seemed baffled that anyone would approach getting a deep cleaning with less enthusiasm than he brought to getting paid for it. Sick fucker.
His virtuous doppelgänger Dr. Broom? None of that with him. He is pleasant, down to earth, normal. When I told him I was trying to decide between a dental implant and a bridge, he told me in the most charmingly offhand manner: «Yeah, I had to make that decision too. I chose a partial.»
And he removed it from his mouth and showed it to me.
I liked him instantly too.

I went to see Dr. Broom for the first time a week ago today after reading all the positive Unilocal reviews about him. And boy, was I glad I did.
You see, I had chipped one of my molars a week before and had gone to see a new dentist to repair it. This dentist barely looked at it, was not very friendly at all, and roughly filled my tooth with a resin filling. He said he wasn’t sure how long it would hold. It didn’t last 24 hours. UGH. I decided I wasn’t ever going back to see him.
When I called Dr. Broom he was booked up for 3 weeks but managed to fit me in. I went in a few days later and he was friendly, welcoming and meticulous. He decided to do the same resin filling as the last dentist. He joked that he hoped it would stay in longer than the last dentist’s. It’s been a week now and it’s still going strong. Thanks again, Dr. Broom!