HORROR STORY - BEWARE: Dr. Applebaum treated me for many (10) years, and did some very costly restorative work, crowns on the four middle top front teeth and a $5,000 5-unit bridge (to replace a 3 unit bridge that "failed" that another denist had done.
I learned subsequently from the dentist that he sold the practice to (and a second opinion confirmed the bad news) that ALL 4 of the top middle crowns had open margins (meaning that there is a space through which food seeps through, can't be accessed by hygiene, and is very likely to cause decay) as did two of the anchor teeth of the bridge.
The 4 middle teeth have since been re-treated with new crowns (hopefully that fit properly with now open margins) but I'm left with the huges mess of 5-unit long-span bridge, and I've very nervous now about having to lose the other teeth supporting the crown in a "catastrophic failure" of the bridge.
All in all, this has been a HORRIFIC experience. I feel now that I need to have any work a dentist "double-checked" but am concerned about how to find the dentist that truly has the expertise to do that.
out of 5 stars
