Michael G. Landy, DDS

Please for the love of god stay away from this practice. These yo-​yos gave me a crown with an open margin and didn’t detect that what was underneath it was a failed root canal from another dentist and that NO core was built in the tooth (meaning biofilm was going down to the roots– causing it to absess). Worse yet he kept trying to sell me stupid shit rather than listen to me when I kept telling him something was wrong. It turns out that the stupid crown was changing my entire bite because the two neighboring teeth were where I was mostly biting. How can someone not detect a crown with an open margin, a failed root canal, no core build up and a failed bite you ask… because they have nothing but dollar signs in their eyes. His assistant was also unprofessional. $ 6000 and a new dentist later I am finally starting to heal. Dr. Fatthi off of MacArthur Blvd. He is amazing.

Disclaimer: it’s been many years since I’ve seen Dr. Landy. However, the damage he did to my teeth continues to be an issue for me, so I now feel compelled to leave this feedback.
The most significant incident that occurred during my time as his patient happened while he was drilling in preparation for a crown placement. He drilled too deeply and ended up perforating my root (a root canal specialist told me this after the fact). The experience was extremely painful. Because he had damaged my root with the drill, that tooth couldn’t fully be numbed after that. Two other dentists tried to work on that spot after the initial incident, and I was able to feel everything that was happening during those procedures. The pain was so extreme, it literally made me sick for a day after (fevers, etc.). Eventually I saw an oral surgeon who ended up having to extract the tooth. Thousands of dollars later, I confronted Dr. Landy about everything that had happened since I last saw him. He was in total denial and said that I had perforated my own root. None of the other dentists I saw agreed with that assessment — they seemed to think it was likely a result of Dr. Landy’s drilling.
While it may be impossible to truly know the cause of the root perforation, my current dentist continues to uncover examples of Dr. Landy’s poor workmanship (e.g., bad fillings, a low-​quality (although $ 600) mouthguard, etc.). His personality is lackluster. Plus, I think the fake reviews throughout this feedback platform are criminal — a medical professional who pays for positive reviews has absolutely no ethics.
Avoid this dentist at all costs.

Dr. Landy is a product pusher: you go in, he examines your teeth, and recommends you purchase an expensive medical device (in my case a mouth guard for «bruxism»).
His staff are quite rude and unprofessional.
I called in for a teeth cleaning (my third visit to his practice). They had me come in for my appointment, made me wait for an hour, then informed me Dr. Landy could not see me because they couldn’t verify my dental insurance with CareFirst. When I called CareFirst, they said Dr. Landy’s office NEVER contacted them. When I emailed Dr. Landy, he never bothered to respond.
P. S. If you’re looking for a dentist, please go on Unilocal (or Google) and read what real patients have to see about that person. It’s your health, your body, and ultimately, your choice.

Honestly the WORST dentist I’ve ever been to. Borderline assaulted me when I told him I wasn’t going to consider an additional (expensive, not covered) procedure and forced my mouth open to «show me» the problem areas. I said no! NO MEANS NO!
Like other reviewers, I went because he took my DMO but I’ve had trouble with the work he did ever since and regret everything about it. Buyer beware!

I haven’t even been to the office and already I’m getting a bad impression. Especially after reading the review. I called the office to schedule an appointment because this is the office that takes my insurance. The woman on the other end of the phone is asking me for information but she has a really nasty attitude about it. I said to her, calmly, «you don’t have to have an attitude with me.» Do you know this unprofessional piece of work hung up the phone? Thankfully when I called back, someone else answered the phone. My mother also called the office a while back and had a similar experience with who we assume was the same person. He needs to fire her and hire someone else. My appointment is on Thursday (two days from today) so I will update my review after.

JUST SAY NO. Gave him three tries — will definitely not go back again. I wasn’t warned about the $ 500+ cost of procedures prescribed. Twice, I was pitched hard and at great length for another very expensive elective procedure. Both of these things, I forgave. But the third day, I said no to the procedure — and received a very painful cleaning and brusque attitude (neither had happened before). Surely, these things might not have been related. But 1) pain and attitude aren’t supposed to happen in the first place, and 2) if I’m even wondering about the possibility of retaliation, something’s seriously wrong.

The office does a great job and the assistants are really nice. But I always feel like they’re trying to sell me something (like my $ 600 mouth guard that I HAD TO have) — when they should just be making sure my teeth are ok.

This guy is a BIG scammer. First of all, he puts so many fake reviews on google+ which tricked me and I finally ended up going there because of my painful wisdom tooth.
My wisdom was about to come out and it was infected. As soon as he looked at my tooth, he said «ok we have to take your upper wisdom out» wait a sec, my complain was about the left tooth on down side! When I told him that, he told me not to worry he can take both of them out and his assistant will come, explain to me how much it would cost and he left the room. He is the rudest person I have ever seen and I don’t think he has any idea about work ethic. These people basically turned into money machine. The assistant came to me and said $ 494 per tooth. I said no immediately because I was not even sure that tooth needs to be removed. Also I was not convinced that he was capable to do that. The guy can not even communicate.
The doctor walked in 10 min later, asked his assistant what the decision is and then told me «let us know if you change your mind, keep taking your antibiotics. «no cleaning, no consulting, no respect to patient. I asked him if it is really urgent to remove them because I wanted my own dentist to take care of it in my home country. He said he can’t say that?!!
What?!! I asked him if he can do anything like remove the skin on top or clean the infected area. He totally avoid my request because he was totally upset that I did not want to surgery and he started acting like a jerk. I ended up paying $ 114 for Nothing! These people should not practice at all. He is quite unprofessional.

I wanted to report back that I’ve finally decided to leave this place. I came here for a cleaning in October and was told everything was fine — which I kind of doubted since they failed to take x-​rays and since I’d had so many dental problems the previous two years under his care. I asked again about x-​rays and a thorough exam, and they insisted everything was fine.
Two months later, one of my molars BROKE IN HALF on a bit of pasta that was uncooked. I went in to see Dr. Spivek just to have him tell me I would need a root canal and crown, but that I’d have to come back in like a week for the root canal and then again for the crown. I bolted to open enrollment, FINALLY gave in and changed to the PPO, and went somewhere competent (my previous dentist, the Bonner Dental Network) for the resulting root canal and crown. Dr. Bonner did the initial consultation, root canal, and crown all at once — and told me that the tooth had been compromised by decay, resulting in it breaking in half. As I thought. What could have been a cheap filling ended up as a several-​hundred-​dollar root canal and crown, thanks to the negligence of Dr. Landy’s office (and mine, in not just giving in and getting the damn PPO sooner).
If you’re stuck with the DHMO that only incompetent/​fraudulent dentists take, Dr. Landy is probably about as good as you can get… although I would suggest looking outside of DC into VA and MD for other possible options. It will be worth it.
I even got a refund on my Unilocal deal for $ 50 off a $ 100 or more procedure. Wasn’t worth it to keep going there. And as excited as I was to buy it… what kind of dentist offers coupons?

My visit to see Dentist Landy for routine cleaning — was okay. Nothing spectacular. What was enough to never make me go again was their accounting/​insurance billing practices. I took me 8 months to rectify my account with his office. His accounting manager was never there and often on leave for weeks at a time. I could never get calls back. Even my insurance called 4 times to inform them that they had paid account, but I still kept receiving statements showing an amount owed with interest. I finally reached the accounting manager and she was so rude. Save yourself a headache and go somewhere else.

DO NOT GO TO HIM.
You should also take a look at all of the «not recommended reviews» that aren’t factored into his overall rating. Almost all are 1 star!
While some others on this page seemed to have good experiences, Dr. Landy has caused me endless pain– to both my mouth, my wallet, and my sick days.
I went to Dr. Landy because he was basically the only dentist in NW DC who took my DMO. I had a severe pain in a tooth, and he insisted I needed a very expensive ceramic onlay. After THREE appointments (all during the workday b/​c his schedule was very inflexible), the ceramic onlay was finally on my tooth. Throughout the year I had some pain and thought it was something I needed to live with b/​c Dr. Landy didn’t perform the procedure very well.
Then, about a year after the original onlay, my cheek started swelling up, and I wound up in the ER. I had to get the onlay removed b/​c it wasn’t done well and an abcess formed b/​c the onlay wasn’t close enough to the tooth. Now, after 10 days of intense antibiotics, I need a get a root canal and then a crown.

Today would have been my first appointment with Dr. Landy, too bad it did not happen. It first started with the administrative assistant informing that I did not have dental coverage which I knew I did. I had to go and print insurance information and bring it back to her. We live in the same building so it wasn’t too big of an issue. I even showed up ten minutes earlier than my appointment time to fill out paperwork only to wait over an hour and half before anyone mentioned to me that the doctor was running late. It seemed as though he took an impromptu appointment for his wife who showed up to get her teeth done in between clients. My husband also had an appointment right after mine, so I decided to give up my slot so he wouldn’t be late for work. I was so disappointed of my first experience at this business. I will take my chances and go to another dentist.

Dr. Landy might be a competent dentist but he constantly looks for procedures to do to make more money. You think you are a patient but you are just a big dollar sign! He put a lot of porcelain veneers on my teeth which I now believe were unnecessary. The good news is that I don’t think they harmed my mouth. After I realized this, I switched to another dentist. If you don’t want to be on the receiving end of a hard sell job, I would find another dentist.

This is a review for Dr Spivak who performs oral surgery for this office. Saw him a few months ago for an full wisdom teeth extraction and couldn’t have been happier with the results. Dr Spivak was very clear about what I should expect from the surgery as well as the after effects, answering all my questions. The extraction procedure was over before I knew it and with zero pain despite the fact that I was awake for the whole thing. Great chair side manner put me instantly at ease.

I had my second appointmet with Dr. Landy and it was fast and easy. He is a great denitist. The dentist I had seen in the past quoted me with 13 cavities that needed filling. Dr. Landy told me I had 2! He does talk up the invisalign quite a bit but I also think I REALLY do need them so it does not bother me too much.
What does bother me is that when I was checking out with an older soft spoken african american woman there was an another older (younger than the african american) white lady behind the desk who was sooooooo rude to this poor woman. She was a bully and snatched the mouse out of the womans hand. At one point she told the woman «Just Move!» so that she could look at the computer and then «Come Here!» when she wanted her to return. I wanted to smack that lady, she was so disrespectful! Not only do I think a human has no right to talk to another human that way… it is flat out unprofessional and a bad reflection on the entire business to do it infront of a customer. I ALMOST CHANGED MY DENTIST OVER THIS ONE LADY… and still thinking about it.

Dr. Landy was the only dentist that my insurance would pay for who got decent Unilocal reviews. I’m guessing that he’s competent, but he used his expertise to talk over my head and try to foist extra charges on me. When he asked his assistant for a vaguely named device, I had to interrupt him to ask him what he was doing and why. He beat around the bush with his explanation before I figured out that it was to screen for oral cancer. I turned it down, but only because I happen to have worked briefly with the top oral cancer expert in the country, so I know that my risk is near zero. If I didn’t know that, I might have felt cowed into allowing it.
He also tried to sell me on $ 1200 worth of services not covered by insurance, some of which I happen to have read up on in the medical literature before coming because I do know that I have a problem. I told him that there’s no evidence that one of the suggested services works. The cleaning he did after that argument was the most painful I have ever experienced, and he never gave me the opportunity to tell him how much it hurt because his hands were in my f-​ing mouth. My mouth still throbs 8 hours later. I would hope that the two aren’t connected, but part of me wonders whether he wanted to prove to me why I needed to spend that $ 1200.
As an aside, when I mentioned that I could get help with one issue from my doctor, he referred to my doctor as a «he». I had to correct him to say «she.» Seriously?

I’ve had a lot of dentists in my life. Thanks to some bad genetics, I’ve always had problems with my teeth, despite regular brushing, flossing, etc. And in my many years seeing dentists, no one has been as bad as Dr. Landy. Nobody.
He misdiagnosed a root canal, leaving me in the worst pain of my life. He and his staff (for the most part) were entirely callous. For a several day period, I could not sleep because the pain was so intense. Nevertheless, Dr. Landy barely seemed to care; it was only after I requested that he send me to a specialist that I was able to be taken care of. I understand and accept that all dentists make mistakes. But it was the entirely callous way in which he treated me that convinced me never to go back. Also, as others have mentioned, he also pushes products on you — which I suspect reflects what he’s really concerned about.
If you’re reading Unilocal reviews, you see the sea of bad reviews Dr. Landy has received and you’re probably not going to go see Dr. Landy anyway. (And if you don’t, it’s because you need to unhide them; it looks like most people had such a terrible experience with Dr. Landy that they went on Unilocal to begin with, so their review of him is the only review they have.) One person can perhaps have a bad, outlier experience. But 20?
Save yourself some potential heartache. Go find someone else — anybody else.

I give three stars (A-​OK) because Dr. Landy has taken really good care of my teeth for over ten years — including necessary caps.
However, he does product push and it is annoying. I bought the night guard during an impulsive moment and never used it. That was a mistake and a direct result of his «hard sell» attitude.
The point is: He’s a great dentist. He’ll take good care of your teeth. But, as a drawback, you have to put up with the hard sell, make the effort of ignoring it (deciding for yourself what’s a «sell» and what’s really necessary) and then going over your bill with a fine toothed comb.

Dr Michael Landy SUCKS!
Michael Landy DDS is nice looking, calm, and friendly BUT beware! My old insurance listed him as the closest reasonably priced dentist. Some of his prices were lower than average BUT he ALWAYS added «extra’s» that easily offset any savings. He and his staff also over billed me and charged me twice (for the same thing) on most occasions! I had to carefully dissect my records to verify this and then wait for Dr. landy to personally authorize his staff to make the adjustment. It was very frustrating. Dr Landy AND his obviously underpaid/​under-​qualified staff DEFINITELY don’t have their shi@ together!
I almost forgot… He installed a new crown on a tooth that had a cavity in it without checking! he trimmed gum tissue which is something that is non-​reversible and reckless! I’ve been going to the University of Maryland Advanced dentistry clinic in Baltimore for 2 years now and I’ve had all my issues addressed and taken care of. They are truly high tech and a good deal IF you can drive 50 min to Baltimore.
I promise you that you will be sorry you ever walked into his cramped office on Connecticut Ave!
Dr Michael Landy SUCKS!

I went here around five times. Not a fan. Dr. Landy is a product pusher (fancy mouthwash that costs $ 50, deep cleaning that costs $ 80) but I kept going because the location was convenient and I couldn’t find another dentist.
THEN, I thought I lost a filling and went in to get it re-​filled. He looks at my tooth, inspects, and starts to drill. He doesn’t say anything to me, just starts to drill. I, of course, assume he’s putting in a new filling. But after he’s drilled away my tooth, he informs me that it wasn’t an issue with a filling. I actually cracked my tooth, and I would need a crown (that would cost me $ 600 and two more visits). Now, if I need a crown, that’s fine — but shouldn’t a dentist inform you of this BEFORE s/​he starts drilling???
I do NOT recommend Dr. Landy.