I had been a patient of this dentist for five or six years and my husband had been a patient of his for several years. We had been very satisfied with his service until he began his own practice a couple of years ago. I developed an infection immediately after his putting a dental bridge in. It was a periodontist who discovered it and treated me with antiobiotics. My husband developed an infection after a filling was replaced and when he returned to the dentist in pain, he was treated immediately without benefit of antibiotics and was in the hospital that night with what amounted to the infection apparently entering his bloodstream. He was hospitalized for days and lucky he was apparently not permanently injured. Therefore, we cannot recommend this dentist and stopped seeing him ourselves immediately. At the least he does not appear to use antibiotics or prescribe them as a safety measure and at the worst his office and tools may not be hygenic.