Adam K Smith, DDS

Dr. Smith is great. He’s funny. He’ll sit and explain everything with you. He treats you like a human being. He saved me from unnecessary procedures that another office tried to do on me. So far, best dentist I’ve met in NYC.

Dr. Smith has been my dentist since moving to the east side. His advice improved my oral health substantially. The new hygienist is awesome too! It seems weird to give a dentist 5 stars, but I’m very happy with my choice.

I’ve been Dr. Smith’s patient for over 25 years. He is very professional and knowledgeable. Last week, he installed a major bridge in my mouth. It fit perfectly and the teeth look perfectly natural. Great job!

Unfortunately I am going to have to downgrade. After the first few times I saw the doc, it’s been downhill. They have rescheduled every appointment (3) I have had with them over the last year or so. The reasons include Jewish holiday (so, did you not know it was going to be a holiday until a week before?), doc is taking vacation. Then they push out my appointment atleast a month because that is all there is available.
The cleaning lady is SO painful, I am really good with my teeth and I have told her to not be so rough more than once.

A TRUE NIGHTMARE.
Hygienist was hacking up a lung and sniffling like crazy. She saunters over and directs me to a FILTHY room. Dust everywhere, very old equipment. She FORGETS to place the lead apron over me when clumsily taking my x-​rays and only put it on after I reminded her.
Meanwhile, this asshole Dr. Smith stands in the doorway and lectures/​insults me for several minutes because I had an insurance mixup in the front. Uh, thanks?! I thought people were supposed to be NICE to clients!!!
He leaves, I’m stuck with hygienist from HELL again. She has a comically snide sneer on her face the entire time. She wants to put this sketchy gel in my mouth. She’s still sniffling and coughing, so I’m hesitant. I ask what it is, and she looks at me like I’m an idiot and draws out every syllable like I’m a mentally challenged toddler. That was the last straw. I told her I wanted to leave because she was being quite rude. At this point, she started YELLING at me. Can’t make this up.
Rude dentist, evil hygienist, dirty office. IT’S NOT WORTH IT. Never even THINK of going to this truly awful establishment. I’d give negative stars if I could.

Find another denist!!, didn’t need x Rays, didn’t need a deep cleaning from a mean, nasty hygienist, didn’t need to be rushed, and didn’t need to pay for a visit my healthy insurance covered. I just went for a routine check up. I had x Rays a year before, and didn’t want to pay for a visit he requested I come for.
Building is dirty and disgusting. Despicable,

Great Dentist, fast, reliable and on time.

Fast and Friendly
I love Dr. Smith’s office– the service is great, the hygienists are knowledgable, and Dr. Smith is so friendly and efficient. I’m really glad I found a great dentist so close to where I work, too.

I’m not sure where these other reviews are coming from. I’ve had a handful of dentists over the years, and Dr. Smith has been the best in my opinion; I also come from a healthcare family and have been around doctors and dentists my whole life.
I went to Dr. Smith basically to fix three poorly done fillings that repeatedly fell out. He fixed them all, each time they fell out, and didn’t take more than thirty minutes for each. Though quick and efficient, I never felt rushed (though I can see how some people here have criticized that approach). My last dentist for example took over an hour each time I visited, sometimes two. Dr. Smith is in and out, doing a great job in under 30 minutes. I think it just depends on what style you are looking for, but I never felt rushed as in doing a poor job, it’s quite the contrary, as the work is excellent. And for me, I am a busy person, and I don’t have time to sit in a chair for an hour or two each time I go. However, I must point out that he also picked up on a hidden cavity that my prior dentist also missed, so being quick and efficient doesn’t mean missing details.
I’ve also used the dental hygienist with him. I agree she is rough, but she is very thorough an very nice, and personally I would rather take rough versus having my teeth rot in my mouth. I had cleanings for the past couple years that were very soft and gentle, but it was clear to me during this cleaning that I had plenty of plaque and tartar building up, and I could feel pits and contours in my teeth I had never felt before. Again, it’s preference, but I think most smart people would rather choose thorough.
Finally, my wife who goes to the dentist four times a year for cleanings, is one of those super proactive people that are always going to the dentist, has absolutely perfect teeth and is a very tough critic on dentists, also made the switch after I suggested she try Dr. Smith, and she loves him as well.
I’ve had a lot of poor dentists over the years, and a lot of OK ones: ones that give poor, inaccurate novacaine shots, ones that take forever drilling teeth, ones that put in poor fillings, and ones that recommend root canals for teeth that don’t need root canals, and ones that commit insurance fraud by charging for procedures that weren’t even done. Dr. Smith is none of those things, and a true pro. I’ve never found a better dentist quite honestly.

proceed with caution. very clumsy rushes everything always available (not a good sign) and dental hygenists are very rough. a basic filling i was in agony and often have to go back because my bite was off.
finally switched to a different dentist.

First off, I would have never gone to this dentist based on these reviews. I called Dr. Foxman’s office to make an appointment, and somehow ended up with an appointment with Dr. Smith, who shares an office.
I came in for a checkup. I never even saw/​met Dr. Smith and only dealt with an assistant. She said I needed to have a gum scaling done. I’ve had the procedure done in the past a few years ago and this was nothing like that. The assistant was absolutely brutal. I literally thought she was going to break my teeth.
The following weekend, I had extreme persistent pain in my tooth on the side where the scaling had been performed. The pain was so bad that I couldn’t sleep or do much of anything. I have relatively healthy teeth and have never experienced dental pain before. I was unable to contact Dr. Smith, even through the emergency number. A day and a half went by where I was unable to sleep at all due to the pain. Finally Dr. Foxman got back to me. He did what he could, but wasn’t able to help much, as I was officially (somehow) a patient of Dr Smith. Late that night Dr Smith, who I had still never met finally got back to me and was able to write a couple scripts. When I asked him if the pain had anything to do with the scaling, he said absolutely not. Well, I guess it was a coincidence that the tooth just started hurting right after his assistant had butchered my gums.
The entire experience was terrible and the fact that I went to two appointments without even meeting the dentist is completely unprofessional. I will be (reluctantly) paying my bill, and never setting foot in this place again.

Beware! I had gum surgery on all 4 quadrants at once in his office by his Periodontist and less than 2 years later he said I needed it again. Fortunately I went to a competent Periodontist who contradicted him. Then Smith told my husband he needed (unnecessary) gum surgery.

This review is only based on a standard cleaning only… I thought the staff was really nice and friendly. They were able to get me in the same day that I called to schedule the appointment due to some cancellations. I feel like I got a really good thorough cleaning. Dr. Smith was really nice and friendly and saw me right after the cleaning was done– I didn’t have to wait at all.

READ THIS if you even THINK about going to this guy.
I wish I had read reviews of him before going. This guy completely fucked my whole mouth up. I’m going to need to spend thousands of dollars to fix what he did, whenever I have the money, and I don’t, so I’m walkin around like this. Ugh. And it isn’t just cosmetic, what he did could have injured my gums, my (good) dentists says.
DO NOT GO, THIS GUY SHOULD NOT GET CLOSE TO YOU!

I had a wisdom tooth coming in, and my gums hurt, and I was worried that they were infected. So I called the closest dentist covered by my insurance, and Dr. Smith himself picked up and took the appointment for half an hour later. I thought that was kind of odd that he answered the phone himself, but he sounded very friendly.
I went in and the first thing the dental assistant says is, «We’re going to take a picture of your teeth.»
Me: «Uhhh…do you mean you’re taking an X-​ray?»
Assistant: «Yes.»
What? I’m coming in about my gums. I can understand that maybe they want to see why my gums are hurting, but I thought that that was jumping the gun to take an X-​ray before anyone’s even looked inside my mouth to see what the problem is or if it’s so bad that it warrants exposing me to radiation. I tell the dental assistant that I do not wish to have an X-​ray, and she just says «Okay,» and leaves it at that, which makes it seem even more like the X-​ray was not necessary, and they just wanted to make money from it.
Dr. Smith comes in. He is friendly, just like on the phone. He looks at my gums, and says there’s an infection, and it needs to be drained. He injects me with novocaine, and then gets out this high-​pitched whirring instrument that makes the worst sounds I have ever heard in my life and jams it into my gums repeatedly. Now, I couldn’t feel any of this, but when the novocaine wore off, boy did I ever feel it. I have no clue what the f— he did, but the only change I could feel or see was that my gums felt much worse off. It didn’t feel like he had drained any fluid or helped my gums in any way. They hurt for days afterwards.
When he’s done, he says, «Gargle with saltwater,» and runs out the door. I catch up to him at the front desk, where he’s writing out a referral to an oral surgeon he knows so I can get my wisdom teeth removed (drumming up business for his quack friends), and say, «Gargle how often? How much salt in the water?» And he gives me another vague answer «A few times a day, very salty.» And then he runs away again.
The next time my gums hurt the same way, I left them alone, and you know what? They healed themselves faster than when Dr. Smith «treated» them.
The whole thing took about ten minutes, five of which was just waiting for the novocaine to kick in, and the bills comes out to $ 390.
Swindler. Quack. Avoid.

I chose the dentist b/​c it was close to where I live and that’s about the only criteria I used. I wish I had done some more research. I went in for an initial cleaning which was ok… they didn’t floss my teeth and left the suction in odd places in my mouth. I went back for a cavity filling and it was a terrible experience. I have had several oral procedures (root canal, braces, oral surgery, crowns) so a simple cavity filling is no big deal… this was the most uncomfortable oral procedure I’ve ever had. For some reason my hair kept getting pushed into my mouth, which is gross and awkward, and instead of changing positions or doing anything about it, the dentist kept joking about cutting my hair off. He was extremely forceful when doing the procedure and I felt that the actual work was very poor.
I decided to change dentists for the rest of the work that needed to be done and I called to have them transfer all my records. I called the new dentist the day before the appointment to make sure they had my stuff and all they had received was one piece of paper. When I called the receptionist at Adam K., I was told it would be $ 50 to transfer my X-​rays and they didn’ t know that those needed to be sent. I had to reschedule my appointment in order to wait for the X-​rays to arrive at the new office.
I would not reccomend this dentist’s office at all.