McCarthy Karen Ms DDS

Dr. Karen McCarthy and her entire staff were AMAZING during my 2 ½ year treatment at her Orthodontics office. I literally can’t even think of one complaint! Dr. McCarthy is such a perfectionist when it comes to your teeth and your smile, she really does her very best to make sure you get your money’s worth and end treatment with the best smile possible! She runs such an organized, prompt, and caring environment, I really enjoyed my appointments every time. You could tell with her staff’s awesome attitudes and knowledge that they are treated with respect and kindness, they all seemed to really enjoy their jobs and cared about what they were doing. I am highly impressed with my teeth, bite, and smile after my treatment as well as the high level of patient service I received. I not only had the best experience imaginable, but my treatment was also very affordable! I will be referring my husband and taking my children there as they get older as well. I would and will recommend Dr. Karen McCarthy and her staff to anyone needing or wanting braces. I was told that as an adult it can be harder to get braces, but that wasn’t the case with me at all thanks to them.

Dr. McCarthy was honest, affordable and darn good at getting the job done on fixing my teeth/​bite. I had a severe grinding problem caused by a bad dental experience and had ground my lower teeth to the point where I almost needed caps put on. She adjusted my bite, straightened my teeth and brought my smile back to where it should be. Thank you Dr. McCarthy. ** in addendum, she was able to build a set of retainers from an impression made by a previous dentist and stored in a car for 3 months for my son who is in the airforce. He had destroyed the only set of retainers he had while deployed and no orthodontist available overseas! I was able to mail him a new set. :)

**½ Star really **
*****BE VERY CAREFUL!*******
Be CAREFUL when it comes to having your bands put on for your braces. She shaved down one of my crowns to fit the band instead of redoing the spacer and waiting a little while longer to get my braces on, meanwhile not realizing that the spacer was lodged in my gum for weeks.
I went from having a nice round crown to having a crown with a straight edge and a space that always gets compacted with food … Due to her making the space (by shaving my $ 1000 crown) it compromised my crown. Since I have had my braces off the space she made gets compacted more and more with food. I floss and floss and it’s extremely painful! Then the crown cracked and broke along the edge she compromised. Too much was shaved off my crown for it to be stable.
Knowing she knows what she has done with my teeth I called her.
I asked her if she could help me out with replacing it. I even told her my insurance would pay 40% of it. I was so nice about it because I liked her as a person and I am a nice person who does not like conflict. I was foolish to think she was going to be helpful!
Even though I was nice and polite she stated «because this had never happened to her before she didn’t know what to do?» She did not offer to help nor fix the mistake she made.
I even paid her off before she was done with my treatment. I paid her off two years before my treatment was done, because I had to move far away.
She was paid in full and I was stuck finding another orthodontist with a lot of work still needing to be done because she could not get my bit right in the time she stated she could. She always said «What am I going to do with you». I always felt like my mouth was a failure.
So I paid her off before my treatment was done. I still had my braces on for two more years, years she saved by not having to treat me anymore. She saved. I lost.
She also does what is called «proxy». She made some of my front teeth wider and bigger. Be CAREFUL with that as well! I have already needed to have one of the front teeth fixed she did «proxy» on. It was not even at the gum line and due to flossing it would ketch all the time causing it to crack and then to fall out. But me being a nice person I didn’t even bring it up to her because I could already tell by the tone of her voice and how long it took to get answers from her, she was not going to fix her mistake. She had a lot of excuses! She said maybe I was in pain because of the position of my tooth… What? It’s broken and shaved down with food constantly getting in my gums… She even had me come see her in person which is fine because she needed to see the outcome of what filling a crown can do. I have been told It is a big no no in the dental world to file on a crown.
IF SHE HAD NOT FILED DOWN THE SIDE OF MY CROWN, I WOULD NOT BE NEEDING TO REPLACE IT TODAY!
She told me she would of filled in the space if I hadn’t relocated. (But I paid her off ???) She didn’t finish her work nor tell me when I moved that this would be an issue??? Why? IT WAS JUST WRONG TO DO THAT TO A CROWN IN THE FIRST PLACE! Beware, she say’s she does it all the time. She said it was standard for her to fill in holes/​spaces she makes for the bands. I was told by a dentist that you cannot fill a crown. It does not work that way and should not be done ever!
I don’t have the funds at the moment and I am in so much pain! I wish I could say something good about ANY of the work she did, but I never felt good about my teeth while seeing her and her (proxy) and shaving my crown… This was a big fail! It’s causing me PAIN and more money!
But because this has never happened to her before she is not going to take any ownership of what she did! All I can say is WOW! Why am I a nice person to people who are not nice to me? … As a person I thought she was great! But my feelings have changed and it is not like me to hate on anyone at all; no way! Please just be careful when an orthodontist starts drilling/​shaving and adding to your teeth. Crowns cannot be fixed with fillings and they are very expensive! It is also expensive paying off an orthodontist that doesn’t finish your treatment or take responsibility for their mistakes. After all we are all human and just because something has not happened before doesn’t mean it can’t happen! I choice to be helpful to others. I would never treat someone like that! I am sorry for doing this review, but I am hoping this will be helpful to someone out there on the Don’ts of orthodontia.
JUST BE CAREFUL! Crowns are over $ 1000 and the pain is even worse!
Be even more careful if you are nice person, because you just might get stepped all over… I feel pretty flat, in pain and broke and I still hate my teeth! I have a long way to go to make them look good! Thousands of Dollars later.
A lesson learned! I DONT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE, that is my only reason for this review

Dr McCarthy had a different «plan» in mind than the one she shared with my mother and i. I had two teeth removed– suddenly i was suppose to get $ 4000 worth of implants? NOT what we had discussed.
Her RUDE and UNTRAINED employees ALWAYS blew me off every time i called or had an appointment.
Upon the removal of my braces, i was not given a permanent retainer like i requested. The plastic retainer that Dr McCarthy charges $ 100 for was painful and stopped fitting. It got to the point that i could no longer wear the retainer because the teeth i had removed (ie, the large gaps) were causing the rest of my top front teeth to shift dramatically.
Thank you Dr McCarthy for making my smile more crooked than every before.