Extra Lunch Money Stole My Last Check

 This business is literally top tier shady in the dental industry. i’ve been going to this location the past few months only because i thought this was the cheapest and only place my insurance worked with (my fault for being ignorant). but they are literally known for telling you that you need more work than you actually do! for instance, they convinced me that i needed to pay $400 for a specialized cleaning even though my insurance covers a basic cleaning and they literally refused to do just the basic cleaning! is that even legal?! anyways, they also mysteriously uncovered several cavities even though every other dentist i went to before that said i had only one cavity that needed fixing. Now thanks to western dental, i have a bunch of silver in my mouth for NO reason. they literally drilled my teeth and created space for these fillings. i wish i had done my research before hand to know that this is something that commonly do. on top of that they tried to convince me to drop $3k on wisdom teeth removal when every legit dentist i have seen before has told me to never mess with wisdom teeth until they start to come to the surface. i went to another credible dentist and it turns out i only need one wisdom tooth removed and i DONT need to be sedated like western dental told me (more $$ for sedation). I called my insurance company and they informed me that this is something western dental actively does to get more money from people and they confirmed to me that they WOULD cover my wisdom tooth removal and sedation and that western dental purposely lied to me. i called western dental for a refund since they NEVER finished my cleaning AND billed my insurance for what I already paid for out of pocket. When I asked for a refund, they told me my only option was to come back and let the dentist work on my teeth some more. At this point I am extremely upset and can’t believe they have the nerve to charge me this much for a cleaning they never finished, AND bill my insurance so I can’t even go to a better dentist for a real cleaning. I hope they make this right eventually and give me my money back. Please call your insurance company and ask which other dentists you can go to because this place is a FRAUD. i wish i could get my money back and time that i wasted here.