For the past few days I had been spending almost 6-7 hours, every day at the Office Dent clinic in Ploiesti. Andrei, the young driver would pick me up from my mom’s home at around 11:00 AM and he would take me back home around 6:00-7:00 PM.
Dr. Raluca Draghici and Dr. Cristian Nicolae had been working hard (and absolutely carefully, with almost no pain) on a few root canals and also on preparing some of the teeth for individual zirconium crowns. All this time, I once again felt all their professionalism, care and amazing patient manners.
I never felt rushed (they even ignored their own lunch breaks so they can attend to my needs and treatments). Their staff (assistants, receptionist, even Dr. Draghici’s charismatic husband whom I also got to meet, etc) are amazingly friendly too.
I feel part of a caring family and I enter this clinic every day KNOWING that I am getting the best care possible. Maybe it’s wrong to feel this way (especially since I had been terrified of dentists all my life) but I can’t help it when, at the end of the day, after lots of dental procedures being done, nobody is asking me to pay IMMEDIATELY, but they wave at me goodbye saying:”Don’t worry, we’ll talk about payments another time, we trust you, see you tomorrow, have a great night, call us at any time in the day or night if you need something”.
And they truly mean it and they truly provided me with all their personal cell phone numbers and they truly answered me when I called...And yes, this is happening in Ploiesti, Romania, at Office Dent in August, 2011...
These days I also got to meet the very nice Dr. Despina Miciulica, General Dentistry, Orthodontics who took a lot of impressions and measurements of my mouth. She will most likely be responsible, along with Dr. Draghici, for my final smile and the CAM/CAD zirconium technology final results of my new crowns.
Finally, I also had to make a trip to Bucharest (again, Andrei, the very nice, young driver was with me) for having a dental tomography done at the F.M.MEDIDENT DENTAL X-RAY INSTITUTE, located on 7 Corneliu Coposu Blvd.
This tomography will be used by Dr. Mihai Dorobantu to help him get an accurate view of hard tissues, meaning the teeth and my bones, inside my maxillofacial region. He’ll need this info for my bone grafting operation scheduled for the day after tomorrow. So it was important for me to have it done...
Computed or computerized tomography works by capturing radiographic images of the patient in high resolution, which makes it easy for the dentist to see those hard tissues, density of the dental bones, etc.
The scan of my jaw using this method took less than half a minute and the staff at MEDIDENT-Bucharest was nice and helpful. It was a pretty neat experience, but pretty pricey (500RON-Romanian currency=approx: $170.00USD).
I also had to have done some blood work (in preparation for the dental bone grafting), and that cost me around $50.00-$60.00USD.
