Michael L Goldman, DDS

MY SUPER HERO!!! Michael Goldman Hands Down ROCKS!!! KIM IS FABULOUS!!! SHE IS AMAZING!!!
The Atmosphere:
Pleasant, cozy and tucked away in Glendale NY. There is a TV so you don’t get bored and nice décor on the walls. It’s well lit so you don’t feel like your in the dark ages hanging out with the mummy. They have great music playing so it takes your mind off things and everything is CLEAN!!! YEP!!! Nice and SHINY! :)
The First Experience:
Your greeted by an amazing receptionist /​dental assistant who is soft spoken, pleasant, extremely attentive and absolutely professional. Her name is Kim. She helped me fill out my form and prepared me in the patient room. She surely shows she cares about you, checking on you and making sure your experience is a smooth one with great talk and even sharing knowledge with me on questions I had. She is absolutely a GEM! YOU ROCK KIM!!! :)
First Impressions:
Doctor Goldman is SUPER PROFESSIONAL, has clean teeth which shows he leads by example! Yes I look at that because it says a lot about your dentist folks! My last dentist looked like she was a jacked up vampire that Dracula fired!
The Second Experience:
Dr. Goldman surely made my experience a fantastic one! I needed a tooth extracted and he took mine out without me even realizing it. I only knew he did because Kim showed me. I was blown away!!! Mind you, when I had my wisdom tooth pulled it was hell on earth with my previous dentist. Yet the molar next to where my wisdom tooth was pulled I seriously felt nothing. TALK ABOUT AWESOME!!! I went home smiling! I mean who smiles and feels happy to even come home and write about their dentist for crying out loud? No, I am not a weirdo and you can go punch yourself in the face for even thinking it if ya’ did moron pants!
A Unilocaler Fireback At Cha:
You know, I saw a negative review and seriously «Ming F» (The «F» stands for «FOOL») is definately smoking hash and fell down a mountain full of jagged dildos into a pool of angry unicorns! How are you even going to say meaningless babble about this man’s practice on things that don’t have meaning??? Your mad because he probably had to deal with cleaning saber teeth with baboon knuckles on your neck so of course he freaked out and had to go to other rooms maybe you also had halitosis for the most-​ess!
I really dislike it when folks write crap. So the man multi-task’s, why are you even hating on him? It took two hours for you because maybe your whole mouth looked like you ate a small village and you threw up from your neck into your pelican jaw! LOL! My lawd!!!
My Thoughts:
No, I don’t know Kim or Dr. Goldman personally. What I do know is my experience was STELLAR and I would surely recommend this Doctor to ANYONE!!! He is DYNAMITE!!! FUNNY! & MOST OF ALL PROFESSIONAL!!! His staff simply SUPERB!!!
I will surely go back if I ever need anything. These FOLKS KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!!
Trust me, I know. I had a dentist that was ridiculous and my experiences there were sub par. With Doctor Goldman you experience pleasant professionalism and HE GET’s THE JOB DONE! HANDS DOWN, NO FRILLS GET’S IT DONE RIGHT THE FIRST TIME!!!
Final Thoughts:
Dr. Goldman My SUPER HERO! With his side kick Brush Brush and Kim the Wonder Lady fighting against Timmy The Tooth the dastardly villain with his crew the cavity creeps! THEY WHIP THAT ASS ALL DAY EVERY DAY!!! :)
Till Next time kiddies!!! :)

I have to give this dentist a great review, mainly because of his fantastic secretary/​dental assistant, Kim. Honestly, I have never come across a more savvy/​caring woman at the front desk of any medical practice ever. She truly cares and does everything she can to help, and she deserves recognition for this.

I’ve been trying to find a decent dentist since relocating to Ridgewood and thought Dr. Goldman might be the one since his office is close to home. I was wrong; the convenient location is the only plus in here.
On my first visit, I waited over 2 hours for a 15 minute «consultation» and cleaning. Dr. Goldman’s office is severely understaffed. There’s only him and one staff member who serves both as receiptionist and dental assistant when necessary.
When I stepped inside the inner office, I noticed 2 – 3 other rooms where patients further wait for their turn as the dentist jumps from one room to the next. During my visit, someone in the room across from mine in the middle of a dental procedure was left in the chair with his mouth hanging open and light shinning brightly in his eyes while the dentist dealt with me. I felt kinda bad for the poor fellow.
This place gets two stars because the lady at the front desk was really nice both on the phone and in-​person. Needless to say, I’m still looking for a decent dentist in Ridgewood.

I first met Dr. Goldman when he squeezed me in for an emergency appointment on a Saturday.
I was suffering an infection in my mouth presumeably, from a crown that had fallen out, and was placed back into my mouth without proper cleaning/​treatment of the area.
He lanced the infection and gave me some antibiotics. More importantly, we talked and strategized about my further treatment. Let me explain.
When I was a little girl, I broke my front tooth, and had to have it crowned. It’s been relatively low maintanence for my whole life. About a year ago, I noticed I had an infection in my gum. I went to see a dentist who gave me an antibiotic and speculated that I had a fractured root, and that I would need an implant. This dentist described the other alternatives to treatment, which would have been unacceptable given my age, and the destructive nature. (A bridge would destroy the two ajacent teeth, and a denture is just unacceptable at my age.)
So I was despondent with the possibility of a $ 3K treatment, that I «needed» but could not afford.
The infection went away and was asymptomatic for about a year. Then recently, the entire crown, and post fell out of my mouth. So I went to a different dentist who cemented it back in. By the time I ate dinner that night, I realized that the dentist did not even bother to check the fitting. Every morsal of food I ate, resulted in my front tooth hitting my bottom tooth. So I went back the following day, and another dentist in the same practice filed the crown down to make it fit better.
A few weeks later, I had the infection that resulted in visiting Dr. Goldman. My «current» dentist at the time was not available on Saturday. They did not have an emergency number, nor was their website, (which stated Saturday hours), up to date.
Dr. Goldman was conservative. We discussed the history of the tooth, and we both agreed that we should find out what is going on with it before we make extreme decisions.
He recommended I see an Endodontist, (a root specialist) and get to the bottom of my problems. It turns out, I did not need a tooth extraction/​implant. My original tooth, underneath the crown was completely healthy. So the recommendation, that I had from two other dentists, off the cuff was completely wrong, and would have costs me thousands of dollars, and a lot of unnecessary pain. (An implant requires a bone graft to the jaw bone.)
Instead, I had a secondary root canal and will be recrowning my tooth.
This is the kind of dentistry I want. Thorough, conservative. A dentist who has been in practice long enough to have experience, but up with the times enough to use newer techniques ***WHEN MERITED***.
A+.
PS: The only down side is that you will have long waits for your appointments. But a good dentist is worth the wait since so many of them, are not so good.