Department of Dentistry 111 East 210th Street, The Bronx, NY 10467

"I've been waiting months to get my appointment. The day before, I still didn't get any call or letter or anything confirming my appointment. I call and go through their 1000 question robot to finally get to a human. She was able to confirm my appointment. Day of my appointment my father and I load up at 6am to make the 4 hour drive to them, 8 am they call me to say "something came up" and they have to cancel!!!... I took the day off from working at my business along with my father. So now we're out a days worth of income, and I have no rescheduling date yet from them. All they could say was they would call me another time to reschedule..... I honestly will not be rescheduling with them. Anyone who handles business the way they do will not be operating on me."

"This place is a training ground. Keeping in mind,your teeth will not GROW back after a extraction. The young lady that took a photo of her one improperly placed implant is singing my song. My one implant was done at nyu on or about 25th street NYC. Now I am at Harlem hospital looking for correction results. The young women with the photo of the implant she got after her car accident still has time to Sue ..."

"It's an all around dental office. Most will need a referral in order to do any work, or wait 6 months from the last dental screening/appointment. The process is the same if you need medical emergency help like a dental infection or tooth extraction. You will wait. I was a walk in and it only took 4 hours for check in, screening, and visiting the dental technicians start to end. You may not be so lucky regarding time. My examination was fast. This office (location in general) does surgery, endo, and general."

"If you’re thinking about going here. Don’t. They absolutely do remove your teeth for no reason. Walked in with a toothache only to discover my tooth was decayed almost down to the nerve. I didn’t have a problem with them extracting it however, they also removed my wisdom tooth next to it even though it grew in perfectly with no pain, whatsoever. My wisdom tooth wasn’t even the tooth I planned on going to get removed, however I left without it (it’s a brand new tooth, what could’ve been the problem with it?) They also have the nerve to look you dead in your face and ask if you’re available three hundred and thirty years from now for an appointment. In that time frame I could have gotten an appointment somewhere else. I also recently went here for another appointment because my tooth’s nerve is exposed and stopped responding to ibuprofen (which is really dangerous and considered an emergency) and they told me they are no longer doing walk-ins. They don’t try to save your teeth at all. They would much rather have you walking around toothless because they get more money from extractions.. The thought of a root canal didn’t even come up even though my insurance covers half (if not most) of it."

"What these doctors do here is borderline malpractice. I was hit by a car and had the misfortune of starting my treatment here. My big mistake was continuing my treatment here, I was 16 and trusted the doctors, and I’m still paying for this mistake 16 years later. I was given an implant by Dr. Amenedo, the tooth was so poorly placed, it is the biggest tooth in my mouth and it literally sticks out of my mouth - the metal is literally against the front of my gums. Then, I was proposed to get braces, they said they needed enough space to make room for the implant that was poorly placed, so Dr. Thomas pulled a tooth. Seriously, the orthodontist pulled the same tooth on the other side - turns out I didn’t need the implant at all. No matter what I do, I will always have a lopsided smile because they had students performing medical treatment when I was told they were doctors. Dr. Amenedo placed the implant too far out for me to have a normal smile, and because Dr. Thomas pulled just one tooth “to make room for the implant and fix the over bite” my midline is significantly off - my whole face looks lopsided. Every dentist I’ve been to said the implant needed to be taken out and repositioned and every orthodontist said they should have never pulled that tooth. I’ve been through three rounds of braces at other places to try and make their mistake look less noticeable. It’s infuriating. If I knew then what I know now, I would have sued Dr. Thomas and Dr. Amenedo for conducting surgery and performing unnecessary medical treatment when they did not have the skills or the knowledge. Every time I look in the mirror, I’m reminded of Dr. Amenedo and Dr. Thomas and how they ruined my smile. All I needed was a dental implant - I was better off with a small gap on the side of my mouth then the lopsided smile I paid over thirty thousand dollars to have now."