David Opai, FAAD, MD

VERY UNPROFESSIONAL! I held back from writing a bad review on my previous visits since being a medical professional myself, I know it’s hard to to please all your patients. But this is inexcusable. I’ll explain what went on in every one of my visits (at least 3 – 4): receptionist/​assistant is extremely impolite and unwelcoming, both Dr. David and receptionist are very ADAMANT about getting your co pay instead of showing any interest for patient care and courteousness. Even in the middle of my appointment he’d ask me for my co pay right then and there! VERY UNPROFESSIONAL! Lastly, I had an appointment a few days ago and I let the receptionist know I had very limited time since I had to get back to work. After asking several times, she could not give me any information on how long he would take so I rescheduled to a few days after. On that appointment, Dr. David didn’t arrive to the office until 30 minutes after the scheduled appointment, then, to top it off, he took another patient and personally came out to the waiting room to tell me it’s going to be at least an hour and that he will call me when he is free. I had taken time out of my busy schedule AGAIN, and he refused to give me 5 minutes for a quick consult.
This is my first Unilocal review EVER, but this situation warranted me to give this office a negative review. I read Dr. David’s past Unilocal reviews and it seems like most people have shared similar experiences. Definitely not coming back again. I hope Dr. David reads this review and can change for the sake of his current and new patients.

After reading the horrible reviews about this place, now I’m really skeptical about going to my consultation here. Thnx for the heads up and I’ll keep u posted.

I should have read these reviews before going in but I was in a rush and he could see me same day for a mole removal and so I went. The office is like mentioned in all the reviews, very unprofessional and disorganized. He was very nice to me but I could tell (now it makes sense reading these reviews) that he’s about money. He scheduled me for three appointments after the removal and I have no idea why. I only went back once after for my results. Anyhow, yes it’s unprofessional and about the money. His front staff does need help alot and he even yelled at her in front of me so my advice. Go somewhere else.

Working in the health field as a health provider/​professional, this doctor dermatologist was sub par. I came in to evaluate my fingers. Within 10 seconds of looking at my finger, he stated it was a certain diagnosis. I didn’t agree with him, but Since he is a dermatologist, I decided to listen to him. I asked him for an explanation, and he gave me a very short answer that didn’t make sense. I gave him the benefit of the doubt. And took his prescription. He told me to follow up with him next week. No changes occurred. I saw him for the second time and he told me it was not getting better because I wasn’t compliant with the medication. During the second visit, his front desk wasn’t there to grab my co-​pay. He seemed to be more worried about not getting my co-​pay and was rude about me paying him. He told me to come back the next week and gave me other prescriptions that included different prescription pills. After another week, nothing changed. I decided to do my own research and saw my primary physician who agreed with my hypothesis. She prescribed me a steroid cream and within a couple days it was gone.
As a health professional, he did not take enough time to understand the nature of my problem. The sad thing is that my diagnosis was a very common diagnosis. It seemed as if he wanted me to come back on a weekly basis just to prescribe more meds and make money from him. Btw doc, the diagnosis was dermatitis dyshydrotic.
I’ll give him a star because it was next to a good Japanese sushi place. Not impressed with the doctor or his workers.

Dr Opai is a really down to earth gentleman. He kept it real with me and helped me with my derma needs. He is very open and easy to talk to. I think most people don’t give him a chance to do what he does. He is one of the only certified dermatologists that accept HMO. He gave me good recommendations and exceptional service.

where do i begin.
this guy is nice and thats it. might know what he is talking about but is all about the money. he rushes everything and everyone. he is unorganized. he has made me come in 4 times and all he does is check up and say lets see you again in 2 weeks then he charges me a co pay every time.
i am writting this review while waiting for him. we were in the middle of a check up and he gets a call for someone who wanted to pay a bill so he leaves me and runs straight to bill the guy. shows me its all about money for him. the guy just isnt worth the time. by far my worst experience ever with a doctor.

Where do i begin… after an eternal battle with doctors i finally was reffered to this man who still to this day has not returned my call or any of my requests for my results from nearly two months ago simple tissue and scrapings culture… his staff is terribly unproffessional .even appointments are a mess… whenever asked to pay it was so weird and unpriffessional one time the dr. Yelled at me to pay cash because they charge him to swipe!!! Really… anyway he blatanlty lied about my seriius skin condition simply because he couldnt diagnose… jus tryed to continue have me come in for no reason… wait was long and a few times turned away because even though i had an appointment they were «busy»…i was totally neglected with a serious skin condition that was spreading and still no call backwith any results i was jus left with a scar from stitches from the skin sample i never got results for… hes a scammer like many doctors outthere…
Its jus wrong doctors. Like these are everywhere and its en epedemic sucks dont let this happen to you…

This very weird doctor is a complete joke. Rushes you! Assigns very expensive medications! And over books his appointments! Has a heavy accent and speaks fast, so you don’t know what the hell he’s even saying. Scam best description for this dude.

I accompanied my wife to her appointment to get two suspicious spots biopsied after getting a referral from her regular doctor. The doctor kept taking phone call after phone call even while seeing patients. The office was completely disorganized, with an overwhelming sense of general confusion. He started seeing patients that had arrived after us, long before he finally brought us back to an examination room. We get the feeling he was catering to afluent patients considering expensive cosmetic procedures and ignoring those needing less profitable routine medical examinations. The doctor seemed disorganized, scatterbrained, over-​booked, and quite lacking in any people skills. An hour and a half after our appointment time, with no sign he had any plans to see us, we walked back into the waiting room and asked for our co-​payment back. The doctor begged us to stay and said he would do the procedure immediately and he finally did it. This doctor had the personna of a mad scientist and completely failed to communicate with us, therefore it was almost impossible to feel any sense of confidence or trust in him.

I’ve never been treated so horribly by a doctor (or any professional for that matter) than Dr. David Opai-​Tetteh. Where do I even begin? When I had my consultation with him, he immediately tried to upsell me very hard on expensive procedures and products that I did not want [Red Flag #1].
After standing my ground and specifying that I only wanted a certain procedure, he gave in and stopped with the upselling. Because the procedure causes bruises and swelling, I paid for the procedure in advance and scheduled to have it done on a specific date. Now the ad he has states a set price for various procedures. The procedure that I wanted was listed as costing $ 355, but he charged me $ 400. I asked him why the price was different on the ad and he said, «Oh, I had a rate increase.» [Red Flag #2] Sounds a lot like bait and switch to me!
When I came in on that specific date, Dr. Opai-​Tetteh told me he did not have the product and that he had to order it, so to come back tomorrow [Red Flag #3].
When I came in the next day, he told me that he was about to perform a liquid facelift on a patient and to just «go walk around for awhile and come back later.» WTF!!! [Red Flag #4]. What kind of place schedules an appointment for someone and when they show up tells them to go do something else for awhile??! I chose to wait in the waiting room thinking the most I would wait was about 45 mins to an hour. NO. I waited for over 2 hours.
When he finally came out, I demanded my money back. He told me no because he already bought the product. I proceeded to adamantly demand my money back and he finally took me to a back room, started yelling at me that his mother had just died and that he was a mess, and then handed me the product and told me to go take it to another physician and have that physician perform the procedure on me. WTF again!!! Who does that??! I told him I did not want the product and I just wanted my money back. He continued yelling at me about how his mother died, and he was emotional, blah, blah, blah. How unprofessional is that to blame faulty business practices on personal problems?
Thankfully, while I was in the waiting room during my 2-​hour wait, I called my husband to come down and deal with this doctor b/​c I knew I was going to have a difficult time getting my money back from him. When my husband arrived, Dr. Opai-Tetteh’s demeanor totally changed and he started kowtowing to my husband that he did not yell at me, that his mother had just died, and that I was a «VIP patient.» My husband demanded that he give me my money back and he finally provided us with the full amount, but it was like pulling teeth to get it, and I know I probably would not have gotten it had my husband not left his work to come down and basically rescue me from this scam doctor.
Worst experience I ever had. This doctor does not treat his patients well at all. He can’t even maintain a steady staff because of his erratic and confrontational behavior. Please don’t let his prices fool you into coming to him. He is a hard upseller and he will try to tear down your self-​esteem in order to get you to buy more expensive products and procedures, especially if you are a woman.

Ok guys so what really matters? The results right? I have to admit the amount of patients vs doctor was a little crazy. I was there for botox and had had botox before at a previous place several times. After waiting for about 30 mins past my appt time I was a little afraid. Dr. Opai took me back and appoligized for the wait, he then proceeded to allow me to open a new bottle of botox and prepared it infront of me ensuring that the botox was not watered down because this is something that many clinics do! BEWARE! After seeing him prepare the botox, he took a white wax pencil and proceeded to mark my forehead. He was very particular, feeling certain danger areas and took almost 3 – 5 min just to mark the area that he was preparing to inject… previous places I had been never did this, nor did they spend that much time preparing to inject the botox. I was very happy with his carefulness, even though throughout the time other patients were coming in and he knew that he was behind schedule. He treated me with respect and took his time. It is now 3 days after my botox treatment at 7 $ a unit i spent 200 $. I am very happy with my reslults and couldnt ask for a better job!

Not impressed, never have I been so rushed in a doctors office or felt so insignificant.
I made an appointment and showed up on time. As always with new doctors you have to fill out new patient info– this is why I was there 15 minutes early. About 5 minutes after I arrived (still 10 mins early) David walked out and called my name and walked me back to the room. He said that he was really busy and said I could finish my paperwork while we diagnosed my issue.
We sat down and he instructed me to keep writing while he started to diagnose me. I had come in for a simple face issue… He said he had seen this a thousand times in his practice and would write me a prescription and I would likely be better within a few weeks. He then proceeded to hand me and flyer and said I needed to read this, it was important to my issue. It was a flyer that advertised his other services like botox. I was confused. It seems as though he was just trying to keep me occupied while he scribbled away on some paperwork.
I left with a prescription in hand and went to Target. They said they didn’t carry the medicine, try CVS. So I did, they said we don’t carry it and even if they did no insurance covers it and it costs over a thousand dollars. I then called David and he stated I needed to call my insurance company and say «why don’t you cover my medicine thats crazy…» So I called my insurance and they stated they wouldn’t cover it because it typically isn’t used in the United States!
I tried one more Pharmacy and this time they verified that this was not a US approved drug and hasn’t been for some time. I called David back and he said that was crazy and he prescribes it all time time.
The fact that he rushed me, told me I had to call the insurance and sent me all over town for a prescription that doesn’t exist was just crazy. I would NEVER return. He would have been so much more happy if I was getting plastic surgery as shown by his pushy sales tactics while I was in the doctors chair.