Tamara Lin, DDS

I had a good visit here. I came because I hadn’t been to a dentist in forever, and I had felt some weird responses to wind/​sugar/​cold/​hot on the right side of my mouth. They scheduled me for the next day! She used some tool to blow some air around the area I claimed was sensitive, before determining that there was nothing wrong there, and the pain was probably from grinding. Now, over a month later, I haven’t felt it again, even though it’d been present for a couple weeks before going!
Got my teeth cleaned well, a mouthguard impression made (I grind, and had lost the old one), learned my gums are receding in front due to not flossing under the built-​in-​retainer (depressing, but useful info!), and got my first filling :(. I was pretty shocked and sad I needed a filling (on the non-​painful side of my mouth, even), but she’s totally right that I had a brown indentation on the side of my molar that had been growing, but which I’d taken to be just some discoloring. The filling was really quick and totally painless (no anesthesia or anything like that), and nobody can tell which tooth it’s on even when I open my mouth and show them.
All told, a good experience. They aren’t a preferred-​provider for SHIP, which means they’re only covered at the 60% level, but I wanted someone good more than I wanted to save 40 $, and Unilocal reviews were pretty uniformly awful for everyone I looked up on the plan.
Also, incredible receptionists! I’ve heard of some awful places where they’re happy to x-​ray you repeatedly rather than contacting your previous dentist for your x-​rays– it’s not so here. Someone showed me a picture of my teeth on an ipone; it’d been sent over digitally, until the hard-​copy could get there. They know exactly how much everything will cost, and seem pretty cheerful to be at work each day.

After reading all of the amazing reviews about Dr. Joel Boriskin, I decided to pay him a visit after quite a long time of no check-​ups. However, Dr. Boriskin doesn’t work on the days I was free, so I was taken up by his co-​worker Dr. Lin.
Dr. Lin is very friendly and was pretty calm during all of the procedures, but seemed kind of arrogant sometimes. Oh well. I had a couple of cavities, but the work she did was nothing extraordinary. The way she did shots hurt more than with any other dentist I’ve had. There was one filling that she did that ended up being too high, giving me pain for a good amount of time before I finally got it fixed with another dentist.
She is also not a preferred MetLife dentist, so it wasn’t worth coming back for so-​so service and pay more than I should be paying. The receptionist, however, was always friendly and welcoming.
Overall, I wouldn’t say Dr. Lin was a bad dentist at all, but she definitely doesn’t deserve 5 stars.

I will definitely recommend Dr Lin. She is very professional but yet very friendly. I am usually very nervous when I am in the dental office, but every time when I visited her, I feel so relax. She has a lot of patience and explains all the procedures to me step my step. She is also very gentle on my teeth so I don’t feel any pain when she does my cleaning or filling.

OK, we all have «Marathon Man» nightmares about the dentist — even if we have perfect teeth! For me, it was the dentist I had as a kid: he didn’t believe in Novacaine; said that if he used it, how would he know if he hit a nerve? Well, let me tell you — he hit a nerve with me right then and there, and I’ve had a «dental phobia» ever since!
Dr. Tamara Lin is my kind of dentist: friendly, kind, gentle, thoughtful, and thorough. She explains every step of each procedure, checks to see if you’re OK, and does a GREAT job! Her staff is the same way, and if going to the dentist can ever be a «joy,» this is it!