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  • 3
    Sep
    2010
  • American Dental Care in NJ closes without telling us? (see details)?
    posted by Kris Nickerson

Okay I`ve had my braces for about a year now and I`ve gone to the american dentist care located in quakerbridge, nj. I was about to get them off at my next appointment when all of a sudden I get a call from some new dentist place saying ADC no longer exists (they were bought out) and not even gives the courtesy to call us about this. And the place that bought them out doesn`t even have an orthodontist so I`m going to have to find another one? Hell no! I made all my payments already! How sick a joke is that?! Just up and leave all your patients without telling them? Can`t they be sued for that? And I can`t even call the regular secretaty Sandy who scheduled all my past appointments or my dentists, Dr.Vives, because all the calls gets forwarded to the place that bought them out?
What am i supposed to do now? *so extremely pissed off*

You need to report this to the New Jersey Dental Association and state board of dentistry. You also probably have the right to sue, since you already paid, plus they are required to tell you and have someone to back them up if you have an emegency (an orthodontist no a dentist).

  • 28
    Aug
    2010
  • Dental consulting management|Get new patients|Helmut Flasch
    posted by Kris Nickerson

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  • 24
    Aug
    2010
  • Dental Complaint with State Dental Board?
    posted by Kris Nickerson

Can anyone tell me what the procedure is that the Dental Board does? I have a major complaint for unnecessary work being recommended and started. It is amazing to me that a dentist can pressure and push a patient to having 25,000 worth of work done from bite-wing x-rays. He said that this was my only choice. Part of it is my fault for not researching or getting a 2nd opinion. My new dentist is furious and knows that the work should not have been done and they should have given me alternatives. I am not interested in getting my money back from what has already been done, but I want to protect someone else from going through what I have. The procedure was started and then I found out that people are transferring from this dentist like crazy. Does anyone know how long the investigation takes and when I expect to hear something? I know that the Dental Board won’t do much, but at least it will go on his record. Also, is there anything else that I can do? What about posting bad reviews on the internet? Can I get into trouble for doing that? Thanks in advance!

Try the Better Business Bureau, and lodge a complaint. No, you can’t get in trouble for it! The Public has a right to know! What a Creep!

  • 14
    Aug
    2010
  • How can I prove an employer lied to deny me unemployment benefits?
    posted by Kris Nickerson

I desperately need help! Unemployment is saying I owe over $11,000 in overpayment. They determined that this is NON FRAUD.

Im gonna try to make a long story short: I had gotten laid off in Dec of 07 after 10 years at a company and started collecting unemployment. I spent every day scouring the streets for jobs and eventually found one in Feb. of 08. The day I was supposed to start work at the new job, I suffered a miscarriage. I was only a few weeks, so I had no clue I was even pregnant. I went into work that day, but was sent home. It was embarassing, but I told the employer what happened and he insisted that I take 2 weeks off. I told him that I would be fine to work, but he said it was best if I took the time off. I did as I was told. I came back to work on the date he told me to come in on and everything was going ok. The new office (dental office) was in a stressful situation. The 2 dentists who had been partners for over 20 years were splitting up the practice. They were constantly at eachothers throats and the dentist who hired me was NOT the "bread winner of the practice" so to say. Their fued was so bad that they were even putting colored labels on their pens/staplers/and highlighters! I even got yelled at once by the other dentist because I used ONE of his paperclips on our folder. Anyway, after working for just 3 weeks, the doctor I worked for went on a caribbean cruise. Our part of the office was techinically closed but the other doctors staff was still there seeing their patients, but he wanted me to go in for a few hours here and there to make sure the other doctor wasn’t using his pens or stamps! God forbid!

Unfortunately, my 2 year old daughter came down with the flu the Sunday before I was scheduled to work. Day care would not take her, of course, so I made arragements for my mother to watch her. Unfortunately, my mom could not be at my house until noon. Monday morning I tried call the doctor and explain that I would be in a little late due to my daughter being sick. I left voicemails saying that I could go in at noon or work on my scheduled days off to make up for going in 3 hours late. Mind you, the office was closed. After calling the doctor several times, he finally called back. I was helping my daughter in the bathroom so my mother answered the phone. The doctor told my mother that he didn’t need to deal with this kind of "sh**" on his vacation. That I had already missed time with my miscarriage and that he was just going to find someone else. He then hung up. As soon as my mother told me this, I tried to call him several times but I NEVER spoke to him again. I was desperate for a job so after unsuccessfully trying to call him for hours, I hopped on the computer and noticed he had placed a help wanted ad BEFORE he had ever even called me back. I called unemployment and explained this whole situation. They said everything was fine and I continued to collect benefits for 4 months. At this point, my benefit year was up and I needed to recertify. When I recertified, they did an investigation as to my reason for leaving that employer. He immediately thought I was trying to collect benefits off him and he called me. He said that his mom worked at UIA and that I had better drop it. I tried to explain that I wasn’t estabishing a new claim on him, that I was just picking up my old claim … but he just hung up. I had not even established enough benefits at his job to qualify if I DID want to put a claim on him! However, because he thought I was trying to get money from him, he stated that I QUIT. Actually, his official statement was that my MOTHER quit for me due to my daughter and myself being sick! I had to turn in a medical form to UIA stating that I was healthy and able to work. I did as I was required and another representive said my claim was now correct. I continued collecting benefits. Now, almost 9 months AFTER he fired me, I get 7 different letters in the mail saying I was not eligible for the past 9 months of uia benefits and that I owe almost $11,000. I am in the process of protesting, but I dont know exactly what I can do! The paperwork says that they did not feel I had intentionally gave them false information – so this is not a fraud case. How can I prove this doctor was lying to try to avoid paying me unemployment benefits? All my benefits have been frozen and I am positively sick with worry. Again, this employers MOTHER works at UIA so I feel like that is a HUGE disadvantage to me. Any information or help would be greatly appreciated.

If you used a cell phone or if the calls you made in your attempts to reach your employer were out of are and showed up on your phone bill, gather your records. Ask for a record of your claim, all phone calls made should be summarized in your claim. Did you violate any company policies regarding reporting your time off? If he claims you were fired for violating policies, you are not eligible for benefits. If he fired you after violating your rights, that needs to have as much back up as you can gather.
Years ago, I did quit a job after a few weeks, sexual harassment, and reopened my claim. The employer tried to state that I was fired for refusing to make deliveries. When the unemployment office called me to inform me my claim was denied, I told them why I quit and the deliveries that he claimed that I refused to make, were in fact delivered and there were invoices with signatures of both customers and myself. A couple days later, I received a call that my claim was approved.

  • 30
    Jul
    2010
  • Can you have a different dentist continue working on your braces if you need to get a new dentist?
    posted by Kris Nickerson

To make a long story short I don’t want to continue to get my braces adjusted by the dentist who put them on. I NEVER want to go back to their office.
The dentist had no gloves on and he stuck his finger in my mouth and touched my tongue , he talks dirty , and asks x rated questions, the neighborhood is in a bad area where there is crime, drugs, graffiti, theft, etc etc….I spent about an hour crying after the way I was treated at their dental office, it was scary. The only problem is , that is the dental office that put my braces on and they do the adjustments, I mean, can I just walk into another dentist’s office and ask them to let me be one of their patients?
And today they lied to me, they said I was just going to their office for a consultation, and a nurse in their 70s, came up to my mouth with a pair of things that looked like pliers and knocked off two of my brackets, and then said I had to pay for that to have the brackets repaired, she knocked them off by mistake? I really do not want to go back to this office, it’s dirty, and shady, but I don’t know how, or what do ?

You can go to a new orthodontist as long as your account is current and you sign a "release of records" form. If the doctor you’ve been going to doesn’t recognize this, you may have bigger problems. All orthodontists are regulated by the AAO (American Association of Orthodontists). Contact them if you have more problems getting transfered out.

  • 20
    Jul
    2010
  • is Bobak Morshed DDS the Butcher of Santa Monica?
    posted by Kris Nickerson

Bobak Morshed butchered my teeth !
Bobak Morshed is one of the worst dentists in the world. He does not know how to analyze thoroughly and carefully, when there was a little loose debris between my teeth after he put a new bond behind one of my upper front tooth, even though I did not think about it, until later, when he should have flossed that debris when I realized it later, but instead he smoothed the tooth 2 times and it could be a possibility that the tooth may have started to cause a sharp edge or it could be a possibility that he did not do the bonding the right way of one of my upper front tooth that may have started to cause a sharp edge. I noticed and it seems to me that he was looking at me, nervously, when I shook his hand by saying thank you and have a good day, while he was not saying anything to me and he stood there by being idle, before I left from the dental office that day. The other times, he was irate and he had terrible customer relations with me for the last 3rd and 4th times. His job performance showed me that he does not have the knowledge by not having a clue how to smooth my edge tooth that I still feel with my tongue, sometimes. The 3rd time when I was there, I was trying to see if I did not feel any sharp edge after he tried to smooth it, which he thought that he did. At that time, I was trying many times to be sure that I did not feel the sharp edge and I thought that it was not there anymore, even though, I still feel it sometimes. Maybe, it could be a reaction of the tongue. I told him that it was okay and he said "GREAT" and he walked away with rudeness. I asked the dental assistant why Dr. Bobak Morshed did this to me and she said that he has to be get ready to work on another patient, even though the Dr. Bobak Morshed was rude to me. He has no analytical and logical comprehensive dental skills. I went to him 4 times and he still did not know how to find a solution. The last 3rd and 4th times when I saw this dentist, he was not pleasant to me and he was rude. He has no patience at all. The last time when I was there inside the office, before going to see him, he was in front of me and he was asking something to an employee and he did not even say hi to me. He was ignoring me and he did not even look at me. Then when it was time to go see Dr. ,Bobak Morshed he asked me "how can I help you?", when he already knew the problem. I told him that I still feel the sharp edge and he said that he does not know what to do and he became rude and irate. When I apologized to him the last time before leaving, he said to me like this: "Say it the other way, have a nice day", which shows me how rude he was to me. It is like he was saying to me, GET LOST!!!! He could not and he still did not find a clue to diagnose my edge tooth. All the other people in the dental office are very nice, except him. When I asked him if he detected the edge tooth, he did not answer me. He never cared to call by asking me how my tooth is. Because, he showed me that he did not know how to have a clue by solving a dental problem with patients, like me, then he needs to either lose his license to practice dentistry or he needs to go back to dental school to improve himself or work for a reputable dentist. He does not care at all, but to make his lucrative profits. He is not interested to have feelings, understanding, and compassion towards patients like me. He showed me that he does not have any wisdom at all. I was not thinking before, but as far as I know, he did not take the photo of my old crown to show proof to the dental insurance, so that I do not have to pay a lot of money out of my pocket and I paid a lot of money out of my pocket and he had me to call the dental insurance to explain about my new crown that he put, so that the dental insurance would believe that I was the patient to have a new crown, but the dental insurance told me that they need a proven photo and as far as I know, he did not take the proven photo. He told me that if the dental insurance does not pay, then he said to me that I have to pay out of my pocket, which showed me how rude he is when he said that to me. It was his responsibility to handle the insurance and I felt that he did something sneaky and not right. About the new crown, I paid $1577. Where he put the new crown, I told him that I feel a lump on my crown and he told me that I have to get used to it, when he could have smoothed it, so that the tongue is not in its way, but I had someone to smooth my new crown. Also, a person told me that Dr. Bobak Morshed did not do a good job on the filling of the tooth of someone. Even my next door neighbor told me that someone told him that Bobak Morshed is no good. Bobak Morshed still does not have any dental logical skills. A strong advice to people is to stay away from him as much as possible. Go and seek a very good, very intelligent, very reputable, very honest, very caring, and very compassionate denti

Bobak Morshed has many bad revues.
I recommend you contact the State of California medical board.

  • 9
    Jul
    2010
  • Trusting a new dentist: Should my suspicions prompt a second opinion?
    posted by Kris Nickerson

I had to find a new dentist because I moved to the southwest. After an exam X-ray the dentist told me I had 5 possibly 6 cavities. I find this highly suspect because a) I have had consistent flossing and brushing habits for years, b) I’ve never had such a high number of cavities at once, c) dentists rely on a visual and utterly subjective judgment whether a shadow in the X-ray is loss of enough tooth density to drill and replace with a filling, d) this dentist just happened to find enough work to do that would max out my insurance for a year (and he knew the figure that would max it out because co-workers with the same policy go to the same dentist), e) I have existing fillings that he may want to refill but it may not really be necessary. I have no pain indicating a definite cavity. I was also highly suspect of how impersonal he was with a new patient.

I’ve been to other dentists before, and I get the strange feeling this dentist may be more interested in securing clients given there is a glut of dentists in town. I know that filling a cavity isn’t the most complex dental work, but it is possible he could crack a tooth, which could then lead to more serious work needed in the future (like a root canal). I don’t feel very confident about how he discussed my teeth. He sounded like he was unsure about the sixth "shadow" he saw on a tooth in the X-ray and simply said, " Well, maybe we’ll leave that one for now." What makes him so certain that the other "shadows" need to be drilled immediately? Would it be inappropriate for me to seek another opinion?

You are very correct to not have blind faith in a person you know nothing about. Trust is vital in a good doctor patient relationship. You have every right to ask that your x-rays be sent to another dentist for a second opinion. You will probably find out that the first dentist is right. But if he seems resentful to your request, he may not be the dentist you want to stick with. Good luck

  • 20
    Jun
    2010
  • I have some dental insurance plan questions (DMO VS PPO)?
    posted by Kris Nickerson

I’m thinking about switching over to a more expensive dental plan in Aetna which gives me the benefit maximum of 1000 dollars per year.

First, I want to give you some of the coverages Aetna gives me in the more expensive plan:
Annual deductible for family: $300
preventive services: 100%
basic services: 80%
major services: 50%
annual benefit maximum: $1000
orthodontic services: 50%
orthodontic lifetime maximum: $1000

My current plan is mostly a patient co-pay plan. They cover everything in diagnostic procedures and preventive procedures (except space maintainers), but everything else I pay from about 15 dollars up to 280 dollars.

so here I go with my questions:
1. the annual benefit maximum of 1000 dollars means 1000 dollars for each member in the plan, right?

2. what does the annual deductible exactly mean?

3. three of my sibling need braces. so does that mean each of them get 1000 dollars off the braces cost? And because its a LIFETIME maximum, it means that you can’t get another 1000 dollars off the following year, right? So if this is true, after each of my siblings use up the 1000 dollars, the insurance will cover for half of the braces cost?

4. since orthodontic maximum and annual benefit maximum are two different things, if you were to get braces and get some restorative procedures done, you’d have 2000 dollars to spend total for that year? (for two of my siblings, after their teeth straightens, the dentist needs to do other things to some of their teeth to completely get rid of the decay)

(I just need advice on the following questions)

1. the current insurance plan (DMO) is $16, and the more expensive plan (PPO) is $56…which is cheaper for my family?—is the ppo plan worth it?

2. how expensive are braces in New Jersey or nyc metropolitan area?—would it be cheaper to just keep the current dental plan and go to a dental school for the braces?

I know these are a lot of questions…but I really need help to make the right choice here…my parents aren’t good at english, so they’re relying on me to help them make the right choice. And my family is in a lot of financial strain, but we need to get my siblings’ teeth treated as soon as possible or we might have to extract them and give them bridges. it wasn’t really their fault that their teeth are decaying…its just that their teeth are so unaligned that there are some surfaces they can’t reach with the tooth brush…

Please! I’m desperate for help!
oh, and the DMO plan has nothing for orthodontics

health-quotes.isgreat.org – I switched to this health insurance from them, cause it gives much cheaper rates for m?.

  • 6
    Jun
    2010
  • Lowenberg & Lituchy New York Dental Patients Get Pampered
    posted by Kris Nickerson

Have a comfortable, relaxing, enjoyable dentist visit while Dr. Gregg Lituchy works on your teeth. A reflexologist helps you forget any phobias about the dentist office.

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  • 1
    Jun
    2010
  • What is wrong with the dental asst., my mom & my bro? What would you do?
    posted by Kris Nickerson

Today we woke up so my bro could go to the dentist at the veterans hosp. Things were going well until my bro went in and the dental asst was yelling at him. I could hear her all the way where I was waiting. That set him off. When he was trying to make an appt for next time she came all the way over where he was to tell my mom that he smelled and she couldn’t work with that offensive odor and that he can’t follow simple instructions. We reported her to patient advocate. My bro took a bath and had on brand new clothes which is hard for him to do. He was slighty musty but it really was barely noticeable. Why do vets get such bad treatment.
My bro is both mentally & physically ill so he started verbally abusing my mom and she was arguing with him. Sometimes I think she likes the victim role which is hard for me to accept b/c she is my rock. She tried to talk to me after my bro went home but I really didn’t even say anything. I don’t know how to respond anymore.
We just got back and he’s still going off about the same thing that happened at the dentist.

Someone needs to write a stern letter to the dental office especially addressing the bad behavior by this assistant. She is obviously very, very, very RUDE and her behavior is unexcuseable. When a person works with the public smells are to be expected. Not everyone recognizes that they have a dog, cat, fried food, etc. odor but it isn’t a dental assistant’s job to embarass and berate a veteran about. If she wasn’t able to stand the odor she needed to either have someone else clean his teeth or rub some Vick’s under her nose and put a mask.

It is so sad that this had to happen to your brother.

Mail a copy of that letter to your VA rep, VA head, your congresman, your state representative, the dental office, the local newspapers and the tv stations.

I would think that this lady won’t have job in the near future – and frankly she doesn’t deserve one.

Also, it isn’t your mom’s fault that your brother is ill. It isn’t your fault either. Don’t treat her like he would get better if she didn’t "enjoy the victim role". She needs your emotional support right now. Perhaps when your brother was yelling at her you could have stepped in and said "hey – bro, lets back off and not yell at mom okay". Your mom made sure he bathed and wore new clothes and showed up to his appointment on time – what more can she do? This blow up wasn’t her fault – it was that nasty dental assistant who needs to get fired!

Good luck!

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