STAY AWAY from Dr. Pressling and Augusta Dental Center or you may regret it... I sure regret it big time! I would definitely not recommend Dr. Pressling to anyone. In my experience, this dentist:
- does very little to explain what needs to be done and why;
- does very little to insure patient comfort;
- does EVERYTHING to maximize what he will charge me and my insurance;
- FIVE visits for one tooth? Root canal, OK, but that should be all done in 2-3 visits, and should cost a lot less than I got charged;
- handles more than one patient at once;
- usually in a great hurry, does sloppy work;
- I honestly cannot think of a single positive part of my experience here!
My first visit was less than two months ago. I had a serious toothache and picked Dr. Pressling because he was on my insurance list and I live nearby. The tooth needed a root canal per Dr. Pressling and we started right away.
Three weeks and FIVE visits later (yes, FIVE visits for one tooth!) we were done (or not?) with this tooth. They billed me nearly $2500 for this. After I asked Penny, the receptionist, about it and made them explain the bill line-by-line, they admitted that there was a mistake in the billing, that they overcharged, and eventually adjusted the bill down to under $1900.
I still have a problem with this tooth, or rather the gums between this tooth and the one next to it, my other crown, done in TX about a year ago. I had some serious pain and swelling of the gums over the past few days--as I heard this morning, the gap between the two crowns was inadequate and food particles were getting trapped in there, causing big problems, swelling and pain. That is what Dr. Pressling said. So he pulled out my other crown (not the one he did, but my other crown done a year ago!) He actually yanked that perfect crown out without saying a word! I thought he was pulling the crown next to it, the one that he did, but this was my good crown that never gave me any problems before! Now I have a temporary in its place and have to go back to Dr. Pressling for a new permanent crown, one that will, hopefully, make the gap right and make this problem go away.
If he did his own crown right (FIVE visits, lots of money, and still was not done right!) and made sure the gap was as it should be, I would not have had this problem with swelling and pain. Now I have to go back to Dr Pressling-Mengele for at least another visit and pay for another crown!
After six visits in about 5-6 weeks, I feel like I am being milked for every dime I am worth... by this sloppy dentist, without communication, except the part that Penny does when she wants my credit card. I will let Dr. Pressling finish what he started today without my consent on the perfectly good crown done by a good dentist, but only because I don't see that I have any other choice at this point. And then I will never go back to Augusta Dental and Dr. Pressling.
