Alhambra Garfield Dental

Had an appointment right after their lunch break. Sat inside and filled out my pre-​/​new patient forms. They seated me in a room after they were back from lunch but just left me in there. After about 5 min someone came in and said they’d see me soon. Then they came back about 10 min in and said they were going to do x-​rays, put the heavy apron on me and left. About 20 min in they came back and put stuff down to take the X-​rays. Then by about 30 min in they took the X-​rays. Although their bit wings were far more uncomfortable than other dentists I’ve been to. After about an hour the dentist finally came in and said I needed a few fillings and then left. The receptionist gave me a breakdown of costs based on my insurance. But no teeth cleaning! I don’t think I’ve ever gone to a dentist where they did a polishing and actually poked around in there. They told me I needed fillings based on only the X-​rays. Not impressed. Insurance change so going to try a new dentist.

Came here to get my wisdom teeth taken out. The oral surgeon deserves a 5 star. He was nice and made me feel at ease during the procedure which took only 15 mins of pulling for 2 teeth. He was straight forward and honest.
1 star for the receptionist for being deceitful. Told me I needed a bone graft, asked me to pay upfront before getting my teeth taken out but I declined and said I’ll pay after. After my wisdom teeth were done I asked the dentist if a bone graft was done he said no and was puzzled as to why I asked. I spoke to the receptionist right after telling her I didn’t get a bone graft so I shouldn’t have to pay $ 300 right? She spoke to the dentist outside not sure exactly what they were talking about. Whatever the case is, I saved myself $ 300 and paid $ 0 today.
I think the oral surgeon goes to multiple locations and does not handle the pricing. I would definitely recommend him for wisdom teeth extraction. It is the reception that was being dishonest. For future customers, always ask questions and make sure everything lines up. Don’t believe everything they tell you and NEVER PAY UPFRONT.

This place is horrible! DO NOT COME HERE! I needed a dentist emergently. My prior dentist from 10 yrs ago had placed a filling instead of a crown on my root canal because I could not afford it. So, finally, my filling fell off and needed attention asap.
To make a long story short, my tooth that had the root canal and an erroneous filling was DEAD. This dentist did NOT take an X-​ray but placed a crown on a dead tooth! And then charged me over $ 1000.00 to place a crown a a dead tooth.
Just FYI– DO NOT COME HERE unless you want to get jipped!

Beware… Even if you have insurance they will not be up front with the charges, almost as if they are making it up as they go, or maybe it is in fact well rehearsed the go to fee will always be $ 1500.00 regardless of your insurance. They will not give you the correct cost of your coverage and will make up procedures they have done or claim you need. Be sure you call you insurance company before agreeing to the procedures they claim you need and what they claim your insurance covers. I needed a root canal and the receptionist was quick to charge me $ 1500 for the root canal based on the x-​rays and even quicker to try to get me to sign up for a credit card. The root canal would have mostly of been covered by my insurance but they’re claiming that I would need crown lengthening’s before even starting on my teeth hence the high fee. They will claim you will need crown lengthening because that is not covered by most insurance companies. Beware.

Very good dental office. Regular client.
Dr. Yazdani has been working on my wife and I for the past year and he has been great. He is an honest dentist and gentle with his work. The staff up front are very helpful (and funny). Great atmosphere.
Not sure what previous reviewers are talking about with long waits; maybe they’re not genuine reviews or have other issues (insurance, etc.). With my experience, this dental office has exceeded my expectations.

When we got there the waiting room was full and so were the 3 exam rooms. Wait was not too bad (30 mins) before we were called back for xrays. After xrays we were directed to a exam room. The room was not setup with the items needed for teeth cleaning. The lady Dr who came in had long acrylic nails and did not wash her hands or have any gloves. Did not even look in the patients mouth… just the xray. Said we had to extract two baby teeth and would cost $ 150 each. Dr insisted that there would not be any cleaning. We asked if they could clean around the baby teeth and she said no as it would cause extreme pain in the evening if they did. She would only clean if the extraction was done. She left after that and we didn’t even know the exam was over.

Spent close to two hours waiting. Took out my phone and read the reviews. Figures if anything I’ll get a second opinion on whatever they say then I thought to myself then why I am I wasting my time if I’m going to get a second opinion. I walked out before getting any billable work done. Time to look for a doctor with at least some positive reviews. This place has none. I’ll take my money elsewhere.

Despite the bad reviews for this place, I decided to go anyway thinking that dental offices aren’t like restaurants and likely don’t get positive reviews overall anyway, right? Wrong. Very very wrong.
First, after my x-​ray the dentist tells me my teeth look good, no cativites. I think, great. Now, I can just get my cleaning and go home. Nope, after doing a physical examination, he tells me I have four caviites and I need a deep cleaning. All of which will set me back $ 400 – 600 dollars out-​of-​pocket from what my insurance will cover.
I declined their services. Went to another dentist who told me I had no cavities and just gave me the cleaning I was after.
I guess this place doesn’t feel like it’s making enough money from your insurance by doing the standard cleanings, so they look for services to render you. Stay away.

I took my 9 year old son for a yearly check up and waited 45 minutes to be called only after complaining about the amount of time that I had been waiting. When My son was finally called in I was told that I could not be in the room and was not explained to as to why. When I expressed my dislike about it I was then told that it was due to them not wanting me to have exposure to the x rays. About a minute later I was told that I could be in the room. Once I was in the room with the dentist I was told that my son would not be receiving xrays due to my request. I had never requested that he not receive xrays I simply expressed that I was displeased with the fact that I could not be in the room with my 9 year old with people that I do not know. The Dentist was rude as well as the staff for lying about my sons xrays. I was quoted $ 150 per cavity! Prices are outrageous and for the service not worth it. I will not ever be going back. Only giving it one star because Unilocal does not allow me to give 0.

I agree with many of the other people that reviewed this place it is not a good dentist and here is why:
–unreliable i went to get a check up they said i had 8 cavities i had a feeling that was not right and i refused to let them fill it up next time i came back the number of cavities had dropped in half!
— parking is difficult to get into small parking lot
–the dentist was very rough handling my mouth pushing around poking and pinching me
— unsanitary the doctor put on gloves check my y mouth took the gloves off put them down on the table and reused them again!
— they reuse sanitary bags the ones that new clean tools are supposed to come in and these bags are stained with yellow brownish splotches very disturbing and their tools seem very old as well

This place is not recommend. They have many ads on the Chinese newspaper and yellow pages but don’t go there! Several things you need to be aware of
1) They are never on time. You have to wait for at least 20 mins, if you have the appointment right after lunch time don’t rush to show up on time, because the whole office will go out for lunch and the door will be lock. I had to stand outside and wait for them to come back.
2) This Dr. Kang guy is so busy many times he will juggling between you and the other patient at the same time. «bite on this for 5 mins» then he will go to see the other patient. 15 mins later he will come back and work on you for another 5 mins and go to the other room. back and forth.
3) while the dentist is working on your teeth, the cute and young assistance will often starts to chat with the dentist. like «how is your weekend, doctor?» «oh, i went to the beach.» i mean come on! focus! you are working on my teeth man.
4) I need a crown. so we took a mode and guess what? I got it remade 3 times. He asked me to go back every two weeks. this crown total took me almost 2 month to complete. he told me that is not his fault the crown didnt fit. It’s the lad’s fault. i am so speechless.
overall, this place is hell. Don’t go.

This place is terrible. I took my son there because it was closer to home. They told me my son needed some fillings only and they charged me $ 95 per filling. Those filling didn’t even last. As soon as my son flossed, it came flying out. Not only that, my son has been complaining of pain in his tooth. So I took him to a new dentist and sure enough, the fillings he previously received were done loosely and it started rotting behind the fillings. My son had to get his roots out, which could have been prevented had this dentist even spent time looking at his xrays. The dentist took about two minutes to exam my son and she was done. Not only that, but because my son was only 5 at the time and wasn’t cooperating, the dentist was so rude. Not at all understanding that a 5 year old doesn’t really cooperate. She was like «i can’t work like this. Your just going to have to bring him back when he’s behaving. He’s terrible. I’ve never had a patient like him before.» Its like the dentist was throwing a tantrum herself because my son wasn’t behaving. Terrible service and she should have her license revoked. Not only do they overcharge, but they don’t even do a good job. She never explained what was wrong, which tooth, how to prevent it. Terrible service and rude at that. I would never recommend this place to anyone!!!

** UnilocalERS BEWARE — BAD DENTIST **
PROS: None…
CONS: Tons…
I know dentist appointment are not always pleasant, but this was possibly the WORST experience I ever had at a dentist office. Since I recently had a change in dental insurance, and this dentist was in the network and close to my workplace, I decide to give it a try.
First of all, if I make an appointment at a certain time, I expect to be seen at a certain time– Not 75 minutes after my appointment time!
Horrible dentist with a hard to understand accent. Told me I had 5 cavities and needed fillings, but I have to pay out of the pocket because they don’t use the silver stuff. To keep it short, they wanted to pay tons of money out of pocket.
I went for two (2) other second opinions, both confirmed that I did have cavities, but only TWO! It was interesting how three (3) of my cavities disappeared overnight… Definitely things that make you go HMMMM…
Conclusion:
STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE if you don’t like to get jibbed!

PROFIT DRIVEN!
LONG WAIT!
I feel like I’m a cash cow to this dental office more so than a patient. Every time I come in for an appointment, the dentist has always told me I need dental work. The dentist has always recommended that I come back every three months for dental irrigation (which is not covered by my insurance), to deeply clean my teeth and gums. It is strange that he is the only dentist in my lifetime who recommends that I come back every three months (did my teeth all of a sudden go bad? hmm…) I honestly think he wants to make a bigger profit by recommending this procedure. My previous dentists never recommended dental irrigation. They’ve said my teeth were fine as long as I brush and floss my teeth consistently. The fact is I have always brushed my teeth thoroughly two times a day and floss daily.
Also, they seem to overbook their appointments. I have gone to this dentist 3 to 4 times hoping I would not have to wait a long time for my routine cleaning. They have disappointed me every time, it takes them on average about 2.5 hours to do my cleaning. The last time I was there for a 3:00 pm appointment, I left the office at about 6:00pm. I am a busy person and I have better things to do than wait in a dentist office. I am not sure why I keep on coming back to this dentist. I have given them many chances. I’m never coming back to this dentist again.

This place SUCKS!!! Just don’t get here no matter what. My little brother, little sister, and I went here a couple of years ago because my little sister had to get her chipped tooth fixed and our insurance company told us to go here. When we all went in for the first time, it took FOREVER! Even though no one was there but us! Besides the bad wait, it was also overpriced. We got our teeth cleaned and had to pay the first time, even if we have insurance (WTF?!) So we just went along with it. So about my little sister and her chipped tooth, they said they would have to order this white crown to place over it, which is good because it would blend in (one of her rabbit teeth). It f*#&$ing cost like $ 600…I’m already getting super angry by writing this. My mom was outraged at first and my siblings and I thought that my mom was just being cheap or something so we just went along with it. But now that I think about it, we got ripped off. I don’t know how sensitive my sister’s teeth are now but I do recall them being sensitive before. Hate this place and their bad service… they’re all a bunch of noobs.
I’m only writing here now because I ran into it on Unilocal while looking for a teeth cleaning place around the area.

If you dislike pain, stay away from here! This was where all my dentist appointments were, growing up as a child. I always grew up thinking, going to the dentist to get a cleaning or a cavity filled was a painful experience, and I accepted it. Until I realized that other people do not go through the same thing.
But honestly they suck. I think there was a female dentist who was decent, but good luck requesting her.
I vividly remember getting one of my teeth pulled out here for braces. The dentist gave me the numbing shot, but when he started wrestling and trying to pull my teeth out. I Unilocaled and told him to stop cos it hurted! He said I was silly because if the drugs weren’t working I would be screaming bloody murder… and that I was only feeling ‘pressure’ But I definitely remember feeling a little pain…
Oh my mom got some work done here recently, she has sensitive teeth and she called the doctor to ask why did her teeth still hurt the next day, and he recommended her going to another dentist because he was fed up?
boo.

Went here about 6 months ago to get a chipped tooth looked at. The parking is really bad here and i accidentally ended up parking in the staff parking… apparently all of it is for staff parking, go figure. Anyways, it was around lunch time so i guess they were out to lunch so i found a spot to park in. Went inside and after waiting around for a really long time, was finally shown in and they sat me down in a waiting chair. I was told that i would need to get a filling for that chipped tooth, but it was nothing serious. However, since i had my fillings in my other cavities put in a long time ago (i was a sugar baby) and they were at least 10 years old, the doc suggested i get them re-​filled. But they only have the white fillings, not the silver metal-​y ones. i figured, sure why not, the white ones’ll look better anyways! So they decided to do half of my mouth = 5 cavities + chipped tooth this time, and i could make an appt to come back to do the rest of my mouth later. Well, 3 hours later, plus an allergic reaction to something, maybe the latex gloves, i came out of there with 5 freshly filled cavities… and a split lip. whaaat??? I cant tell you why my lip was split either, but it looked like i’d been in a fight, and my face was all red and chapped and skin peeling… not a pretty sight. I left that place with more than $ 500 lighter (this is WITH insurance, albeit HMO policy) and i figured well at least i got 5 new freshly filled cavs and my chipped tooth is no longer.
it’s 6 months later and i have another appt at another dentist office to get that chipped tooth looked at cuz it’s super sensitive to even room temperature water and it looks like i have a cavity under their filling. Save yourself, and your money, by just going somewhere else!

RUDE! I agreed! i took my 2 year old tod there for teeth cleaning, the DENTIST there and people there are super rude don’t know how they stay in business. Told me to take my kid home that he dont need cleaning because his teeth will be falling off by 3 anyways so dont bother. I request to have his teeth clean because his teeth has tartar n cavity in the 2 front teeth, he blame that on juice and candy etc, when i DONT even feed my son any of that. Dont have any Medical sense. because he told me not to clean and wait till teeth fall off, Extremely rude, shouldn’t even be a dentist at all!!! Don’t even know how they stay in Business!!!