Dr. Karotkin left me with a lopsided smile due to a filing procedure he insisted upon after I had my braces removed. When he took out the filing instrument, I said, ""No, I don't want that."", but he insisted and proceeded to file away the bottoms of my top two front ""smile"" teeth on the right side only for no apparent reason. I am left with a slightly lopsided smile and some lingering discomfort in the two teeth he filed. When I complained, he told me that he knew the teeth would be shorter on one side, but that he decided he wanted me to get my teeth added to with synthetic material by a dentist, and he refered me to his friend. He did not tell me this before he proceeded to remove the length of my two front right side top teeth. He obviously did this intentionally, knowing that it would have a negative lopsided result. He also left my back teeth un-straightened (he did not place a bracket on the back teeth) and left me with a bigger overbite than I had before the braces. He failed to file down the one tooth that actually needed filing down, which is the bottom front tooth that had been pushed back before and was therefore not as worn as the others and sticks up higher than all the rest. I actually hit my top front tooth on that taller bottom tooth now when I say ""s"" and ""sh"" sounds. Dr. Karotkin left that bottom tooth which needed filing alone and filed away two front top teeth (one one side) that did not need to be filed. I cannot imagine why he chose to do this. I feel angry and cry almost daily. I would not recommend going to Dr. Karotkin.
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