Dr. Ronald J. Klinkowize, DMD

I feel compelled to write this review, something I’ve only ever done once or twice, and I’m doing so because I came upon the previous review purely by chance. When I saw one star, I was shocked! To be honest, anything less than five stars for Dr. K would surprise me.nnI am simply going to tell you that I have been to a few dentists in my lifetime and was a patient to each one for many years, but I have never experienced the profound care of both the patient and the profession that Dr. K exemplifies. He is an excellent dentist and and is conservative; he will only do what is best for the patient and takes time explaining. He doesn’t want to do anything unnecessary, and he ALWAYS puts his patients’ needs first.nnDr. K is professional, sincere, highly skilled, and I highly recommend him!!

I am writing in hopes of explaining my story so that this dentist may be further reviewed and future patients may not be impacted in the capacity that I was. My dentist information is as follows:nnI began seeing Dr. K in 2012. In 2012 I started completing my cleanings there and did an extraction. Dr. K recommended Dr. Michael Sonic to complete oral surgery on my gums and have implants put in. Fast forward to 2014 Dr. K was responsible for making my removable dentures using my 9 implants. He made the 1st set of dentures which took 2 years to complete. After the first set of dentures was completed I began to experience a very traumatic situation where my dentures would break every 2-3 weeks. This process lasted for 5 years. In the 5 years that Dr. K continued to serve me he cancelled 95 appointments that we had made using the reasoning that the lab didn’t get to him in time. I consistently needed to change my work schedule since majority of the appointments were cancelled same day. I continued to missed work days when the denture would break again at unexpected times. I experienced terrible family vacations where I could not eat because my denture broke again. I asked Dr. K why this continued to happen he couldn’t give me a clear answer. He would assure me that he’s going to correct it next time and explain how he’s going to send it to the lab and what I can expect. I would attend the visit remembering my expectations and the narrative would be entirely different and yet again the blame was the lab. It’s important to note that Dr. K shared with me that he’s changed 3 labs throughout the time I’ve known him.nnThe first extra set of dentures that were made for me as back up were made 1 day before I was traveling as an emergency. The 2nd set of extra back up dentures he made for me were 3 years after and it was the day that I was traveling. Dr. K would feel comfortable to complete the work right up to the most stressful day for me. Furthermore, these extra sets did not fit properly and the quality was notably lower, I had difficulty eating and enjoying day to day activities. I continued to experience the same problems over and over again even after this. There many circumstances where I would visit Dr. K’s office to drop off the dentures and he would assure me that he was going to submit them to the lab. I would return 2-3 weeks later to review and the denture would be in the same exact condition it was when I dropped it off.nnThroughout this process I felt obligated to continue to visit Dr. K since I had paid him over $13,000 I did not have the means to start this process over again with another dentist. Additionally, as most patients, in the beginning I trusted that Dr. K had my best interest at heart. I referred my family to him and they began to see him. As the years went on I started to lose trust and gain frustration and sadness and felt trapped in my choices due to my financial situation.nnDr. K does not emphasize with patients, he’s robbed me of time and he’s taken a substantial amount of money from and has not completed work within the relative quality and timeline of dentists in the area. I highly recommend that patients take caution before attending his practice. I have included images of the horrific experience I went through with Dr. K throughout these 5 years. You can see the botched work that was used to put them back together both through merge and simply adding more material to combine them together.