My first day with prosthodontist Munguia was on March 8, 2015. Until the end of May 2015 he installed temporary crowns after removing the old crowns using strong adhesive to cement them because I needed to wait several months away for the bone grafted areas to mature. Up to May 6 ,2015 I was charged $22,300.00 for the work performed and for the permanent crowns of my 7 front upper teeth.
On Dec ,2015 he started removing my temporaries .
This time since the permanent crowns were to be installed soon the adhesive was used sparingly so that the removal of the temporary teeth would not present a problem. Temporaries were not stable anymore. He wanted to start from the 7 upper front teeth. I never did see the fabled 7 upper permanent crowns he kept promising me even though I had fully paid for them in advance a full year earlier . He took impressions of my 7 upper front teeth. In Jan, he said that the crowns are coming from Europe and that he had to prepare my lower teeth and that he needs to get extra payments for lower permanent crowns. He hadn’t bothered to remember that I needed two implants.
So I asked him. He said that I needed to make an additional payment of $5,000.00. When I asked him what had happened to the money I had paid him thus far, he said that he sent the money to the laboratory for 7 upper permanent crowns. I paid additional $15,000.00 for an implant surgery and several lower permanent crowns in February 2016. When he tried the crowns on my teeth, he said that I have a serious recession again. For a patient to wait even one day in this condition is torture, in that I was faced with my temporaries constantly falling out, breaking and in the process damaging my healthy teeth. That day he used some chemical which caused my teeth to turn black. I was brushing my teeth and some of the temporaries fell out. It was awfully horrible to go through all this. My teeth were as black as pitch and smelled like tar. I called him in a panic He said he used fluoride. That wasn’t true.In order to clean this black stains from my teeth he attempted to use a gritty substance. This caused my teeth to become even more sensitive. During all these procedures of removing and re-installing my temporary crowns, countless times, on and on made my teeth unstable.
March 23: During the implant surgery I felt that something was decidedly wrong. I was repeatedly given extra Novocain. Water being given for the irrigation of my mouth started to come out of my nose. I couldn’t breathe and it felt like I was drowning .I was charged cryptically, $1,850.00 for the bone grafting 4 to 5 times more than the fees of previous bone grafts. April, 2016: He installed three of the ten lower permanent crowns and stopped and said that there was more recession and that he had to take more impressions. When I saw these crowns I was in shock. They were extremely dirty looking crowns. I called him the next day to complain, he said he would change the crowns. April 19: On this day he applied a corrosive substance to my teeth to alleviate the sensitivity .This caused my tongue to start hurting severely that I was in agony. The day before I received a call for a cancellation of the appt for May 10,2016.He again didn't like the crowns and returned them back. I ended up paying for $22584.50 for 1 implant , 3 bone grafting, 3 filthy crowns ..I went to him with the best of intentions. I made my 35 appointments and payments anytime he asked me .Since the beginning of this year my morale and social life have been wrecked. I have temporomandibular disorder. Correcting my problem has become even more expensive. Recently a sharp bone has started to protrude from where Fernando Munguia did the implant. I can attest from my extensive experiences F. Munguia is not a good honest dentist. I wanted to post this review to prevent others from suffering the same moral and material loss. I can substantiate everything I stated here with documentation.
About Front Desk: They are Dr. Munguia's team.
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About Hygienist: They gave me countless of Novocain injections even for a simple cleaning while trying to justify it by claiming it " deep, very deep cleaning" .
I know this doctor: 15 months
out of 5 stars
