Shalmi Gabriel D D S P C

AVOID AVOID AVOID.
I booked my appointment via Zocdoc, I’ve been in two different dentists in the past two months but since i bought an insurance HMO, and Dr. Shalmi is listed, I decided to try my luck hoping to find a good dentist. Im wearing my braces, and could be pregnant. I arrived at 9 but they were closed, so i waited until 10 am.
Dr Shalmi arrived at 10:30. the staff are very unhelpful and they told me I am not in the list of appointments. but I have been using ZOCDOC for so many times, and never had this problem, I also got a confirmation. Anyways, i brought my recommendation letter from my ortho, and hoping they won’t give me an Xray since I may be pregnant – who knows. I also brought all my treatment plans from my other two dentists, and my assurant insurance. All of these, after an hour of waiting inside the office, nothing was resolved. They took at leafs 10 X-​rays from me, even if i told them I may be pregnant, and then finally, Dr Shalmi came to check my mouth, just this and that and then DONE! he didn’t even talk to me or whatsoever, nothing at all. didn’t inform me. so I wasted two hours of my precious time, my health is in jeopardy and nothing was resolve. they even told me that my HMO INSURANCE IS NOT LISTED. VERY DISAPPOINTING!!! THEY DONT KNOW WHAT THEYRE DOING.

I don’t know where the previous review came from, the dentist does not know what is good work. My son had cavities and needed a root canal, so we went multiple times. The average wait time was 1 hour after the appointed time. 1 hour with a 6-​year old in a dentist’s office! Before the actual exam and everything. The doctor decided not to do the root canal, but just to solve the problem with a filling. My son’s tooth started bleeding a week after the procedure. We came back but Dr. Shalmi couldn’t do anything (didn’t want to). He never has time for patients, everything is done very quickly; patients’ complaints are often disregarded. We had to find another dentist who fixed my son’s teeth — redid what Dr. Shalmi originally did. In general, very unprofessional. I have heard a lot of complaints about him from neighbors, too. Avoid at all costs.

Great Dentist, very good at what he does. Great staff. His staff works for him for as long as I remember. I have been going to Dc Shalmi past 18 years. I moved to Manhattan and still go back to Riverdale, eventhugh it is far from me. I hope Dc opens office in Manhattan some day.

The absolute worst professional experience of my life. If you read this review and go anyway PLEASE come and write back so that others do not have to make the same mistake we did. Dr. Shalmi should NOT be in business because he is unprofessional, rude, untrustworthy and only cares about making money even if it is not in your best interests.