Adam Askari, DDS

Even though a close friend of mine recommended him, I was very apprehensive about seeing Dr. Askari after reading the reviews on Unilocal; however, it helped that other reviews on the web about Dr. Askari are very positive. So, I got to experience the services of his office first hand. I have to tell you that I am extremely happy with his office from A to Z. The office staff is professional and friendly; the office is immaculate, the equipment is modern and Doctor Askari himself is very caring. I had two crowns that developed a leak and no longer trusted my own dentist since the crowns were his handy work. Doctor Askari did a wonderful job with my new crowns; I highly recommend him.

In my personal experience: I lost My tooth feeling six months ago, did my best to avoid this kind of treatment, and I had an excruciating pain. Called the hot line as it is advertised in their web. Got a call by the doctor to be there at 8 am.
$ 169 for service before extracting, since that is what I wanted.
1– To get the money there is no wait, but if you ask for your change there is eye brows raised. «I have no change now, but I can add it to service is going to be done» so I said no, after all why I have to wait for my change. I pay as we go right? each service (I am not sure if you can call it that) I had to pay before they take the steps.
2– Jr. walks in and instead of looking at taken ex-​ray that shows exactly which tooth has the problem she is cruising in my mouth with $ sign in her eyes.
3– I stopped her with my hand signal and I said I am here to get rid of tooth and I have no desire to have any other work done. Nothing at all
4– I get additional paper work that its main function to protect the butchers, and with the smile I said these paper are not going to be a bullet prove west, and if there is an issue I will and I am very capable to pursuit matters legally.
The question becomes why some one go that fare to protect themselves, bad past experience doing poor job, fear of losing what they have, or higher insurance premium are just a few I could think of. Either way consumers do have rights and if something did go wrong by the doctor in my mouth I will not just write bad review nor level myself with him. I will report him to Dental Board of California and more.
It is foolish to think you are a doctor and now you reserve all the rights, or some how you are superior. A judge cares less about that, and cares more about what laws were ignored.
Sr. walks in and has demeanor attitude, after I ask: I need my tooth after extraction and after I was told by the law they can not do that and I show them URL for
that I have every right to have my extracted tooth back he says let me call my insurance. Well instead he calls Santa Clara association, that has no authority over government rules and regulations. Not only he misinterprets the answer to my request but he also gives me the number of the person he spoke with for me to call! Lack of communication usually is not an useful skill for a DDS.
Dear hard working people with pain and no insurance, there are plenty of experienced and professional doctors in San Jose/​Santa Clara county that do not have a need to charge you extra or do something that you really don’t need to pay for all their toys or student loans. You need to get the job done right in the first place without selling your car, avoid this SR and JR so called DDS.

The offie is beautiful but not the services. It took them 45 minutes to confirm my insurance company. It was frustrating. Why can’t they take my insurance info over the phone so everything would be ready when patients arrive???
Then went to the back room for x-​ray. The machine didn’t work. The technician seemed inexperience. He called in another person, yet the machine still didn’t work. I was moved to another room, and it took over 20 minutes for a simple process. Then another staff came in to check my teeth (I thought this should be done by the doctor but no, it was done by a technician).
Finally the doctor came in, briefly looked at my chart and told me I am good to go (we only had 5 minutes interaction). He wanted to show me a video on how to floss my teeth properly. Once again, the machine that was supposed to show the video wasn’t working neither. So he just sent me home.
I feel like going to a dental school, because most of the procedures are done by technician (include the exam part). My previous dentist checked every single one of my teeth herself. And only let the staff to do the x-​ray.
After spending 1.5 hour there, I left disappointed, frustrated and decided never to come back. Avoid this dentisl.

First, let me start by saying that the office is very clean, and very beautiful. The front staff is very friendly, and welcoming.
When I finally got called to have X-​rays done (which was 30 minutes past my appointment time), I was given instructions on how to get inside the machine and then the technician would take my X-​rays. Well, after several failed attempts, she walked me over to a room to do it another way.
15 minutes later, I am greeted by the dentist, Dr. Askari, and he tries to get the machine working once more. It does not.
He takes me back to the room, and does not do an X-​ray on me. Instead, he tells me to open my mouth, and notices the tartar on my teeth. I told him I was here for just a cleaning today, but proceeded to tell me I should have my «gap» fixed, wisdom teeth removed, and needed to do a «non-​surgical procedure» under my gums to help. I just wanted my cleaning, as I needed to consider any other treatments and make sure they were in my budget.
He took me back up to the reception area without doing an X-​ray or cleaning my teeth and tried to make an appointment for me to have all those procedures done tonight. I told him I just wanted my cleaning, and that I didn’t have time or money for the rest — he still refused to do my cleaning, and told me «Good luck.» I basically wasted an hour (and work) in order to be refused the service I came in for.
Basically, it’s a nice building, but their toys don’t work and they don’t listen to the patient’s needs. Avoid this place and find somewhere better — Dr. Kung on Ross Ave. is great.