Mark A Antonis, DDS

The office of Mark Antonis has wonderful oral hygienists. They’re gentle. My prior experience with others, elsewhere, was horrible and I had been naïve to think this was normal. It’s not.
i was going to a different dentist, in Emmaus, PA, where the oral hygienist essentially tortured me (I even have an injury on the root of a tooth from their hostile scaling technique, though there’s no hope of getting their admission of it). I started scaling my own teeth to reduce this feeling of being brutalized at semiannual cleanings, and it made no difference at all.
At Antonis’ office, I said «Wow, you barely did anything with the hook». The hygienist admitted «you basically did all the work». This taught me that my other hygienist was not doing anything sensible and had only been scraping mindlessly. I’ll never go back to them, but I WOULD go back to Antonis’ people.
I told the receptionists how impressed I was with the gentleness of Antonis’ hygienists. The one receptionist said «Oh I know, I love them here!» She then told an oral hygienist anecdote of her own, from her own prior dentist. When she somewhat shyly complained about her hygienist, to the receptionist at her old dental office, the dentist happened to be within hearing distance and said «What? She’s been warned before about that» and the dentist walked back and fired the woman on the spot.
So let this be a lesson to you: if you’re putting up with an oral hygienist abusing your mouth during cleanings, this is NOT normal. Try the hygienists at Mark Antonis’ office. I had two different ones and both were gentle.
Note, this was circa 2006. I don’t know if the same hygienists are there today.