Sunshine Dental Office

I can’t speak to the quality of the dentistry here. I called ahead to schedule an appointment and gave the receptionist my insurance information (including my social security number) to confirm that they accepted my coverage at this office. After being told that my insurance was accepted, I showed up to my appointment today only to be told that my insurance is NOT, in fact, accepted and that I would have to pay out of pocket for services. Apparently, they called me about this, but I have no record of that. I encouraged the receptionist to make direct contact with future patients if she finds some insurance issue.
If you are a new patient, call ahead the day before or day of to be sure that they haven’t changed their minds about your insurance. It will save you the trouble and inconvenience of missing work for nothing, as I did.

Super super nice staff. Friendly oral surgeon and great with children.
The dentist is never a kids favorite place to go but my daughter always asks if we can go to sunshine every time we pass by. They must be doing something right.

I’ve been going here for many years and have always found them to be competent and professional. I find some of the negative reviews I’ve seen very hard to believe. My only reason for not giving 5 stars is that English is not their first language and occasionally they can be misunderstood, but their work is excellent.

Dr. Muniyappa at Sunshine Dental Office is a caring patient dentist. She definitely spends quality time with each patient and caters to the individual needs of each. Both myself and my husband are patients now and we both recommend her as your «go to» dentist. She makes sure you are comfortable and is very detailed in her cleanings. She helped me to relax and numbed me all up for my deep cleaning that I was very anxious about. She is very knowledgable in both cosmetic and regular dental needs. They offer teeth whitening here as well with state of the art equipment. I plan on doing this next as they are reasonably priced. 5 stars.

I come all the way from LA here. The dentists here are excellent. I had to get a lot of dental work done which would have made me bankrupt in LA. I found them and they did the job PERFECTLY! Now, my entire family goes to them. They also have the friendliest and nicest Staff. I highly recommend.

I have been going to Sunshine Dental and Dr. Muniyappa for the past 4 years and have been extremely happy with the treatment provided. No unneccessary frills or fancy treatment recommendations. Every other dentist i have been to has tried to recommend followup treatments that are not needed. Dr. Muniyappa gives an honest opinion (which is all that i need) and has provided accurate diagnosis for any issue I had (as well as pointed out when treatment suggested by another dentist was not really necessary). This is an honest practice and I would highly recommend to anyone. Also my wait time in the past 4 years has not been more than 5 – 10 mins (which is a rarity at clinics).

My first visit at this office was awesome.
Dr. Muniyappa was very professional and
the procedure was painless. Nice to have
a good dentist close to home.

Hi,
I went to check if they can remove my wisdom teeth. I had my X-​Ray with me.
I had an appointment at 4pm, I was checked in by 4:10 (filled all the forms).
I waited for 1hr 46 min (I have habit of timing things). Doc spent 3 min to tell she can’t do and I’ll need oral surgeon.
Clinic is nice. Don’t overbook yourself that people have to wait for 2 hrs despite an appointment. Sorry doesn’t give back time.

I got an email today. It was a series of dental x-​rays from my recent visit to Sunshine Dental. Only problem is. .. I am in NYC thousands of miles away — and I have never been to Sunshine Dental.
Don’t go here — you risk your personal medical information being emailed to strangers. I wish I knew how to contact the patient — so he would know about this breech of confidentiality.

My family of 5 switched to Sunshine Dental office because we were tired of other offices trying to sell us crowns and other services we didn’t need. I don’t feel like we’re getting a sales pitch with this office. We have had nothing but excellent service from Dr. Muniyappa and her staff. Dr. Muniyappa and staff explain to us what they plan to do at each step of the process and ask that we let them know if we feel any discomfort. I had bonding on a front tooth from several years ago that started to chip. Dr. Muniyappa not only replaced the bonding, she made sure it and the rest of my front teeth lined up beautifully. It exceeded my expectations! When my husband lost a crown, they fit him in and took care of it right away and he hasn’t had any problems since. I am so happy we switched to Sunshine dental and would highly recommend them.

I don’t want to write a bad review but I had to for this dental office. Be careful with this dentist because she might drill & work on your completely healthy teeth.
The reason for my visit to this office was the closest from my home that carries my new dental insurance. The office looked busy, waiting area is small and cramped, overall the office appears below average for dental office and the staffs were okay.
From their treatment recommendation was 2 fillings possibly 3 fillings for my daughter’s cavity after x-​ray and cleaning. I was little surprised because she had very healthy teeth with no problem when she had the last visit 6 month ago to the other dentist. Also, I was puzzled why this dentist gave not exact diagnosis of how many cavities she has and how many of her teeth need fillings, two or maybe three?
They put next appointment about a month later from initial visit and a man from the office called few days prior to the appointment date and cancelled the appointment since the dentist will be on vacation for a month. I was upset and I had to find another dentist from my insurance provider since I did not wait another month for my daughter’s treatment.
But this turned out to be very fortunate for us. This new dental office my insurance assigned to me is very good compare to Sunshine. The office is clean and receptionists are very nice and waiting area is very spacious and comfortable. But the most shocking is that this new dentist diagnosed my daughter has no cavity and no need for any fillings!
I could not believe what I heard and I even showed to the dentist the treatment plan and estimate I got from Sunshine Dental Office. He said he can drill and fill them if I want to but no need to! I can not imagine a dentist drill completely healthy tooth. why?

Worst dental office ever. They called me two days prior to my appointment and wanted to postpone for over thirty days because they have to go on a month long summer vacation. I said I’d call back to make the next appointment and when I did, they said that I was no longer on their list of patients. And they blamed it to my insurance company. that I ‘m not covered with the insurance. I called the insurance company and they said that it is not so, that Sunshine Dental had dropped us.
Why? What kind of people does this to their patients, clients, or customers? We all work hard to find and keep that one extra person for a little more income.
No thank you but I will take my hard earned money and go somewhere where t is appreciated.

This was the worst dentist experience of my life. The office staff is rude and treat you like you do not deserve to be there. Most of treatment is done by assistants, including fillings/​sealants. Be aware of Mr. Muniyappa (Office Manager) — even if you don’t deal with him, he will make sure to show up and humiliate you in the middle of your treatment. I will never come back to this office. They are not BBB affiliated. Why not?

This place is great. They really take care of you.
I’ve been going here for the last maybe 4 years, and I’m continually impressed with the honesty of the lady dentist’s appraisal of what I need. By the way, this followed some pretty awful treatment by another practice elsewhere, and the fact fact that I have ‘English’ teeth (meaning awfully maintained) and a dread of Dentists going back to my childhood.
Anyhow, over the years, Mrs Muniyappa (?spelling) has worked with my insurance company to get the crowns and various treatments I need, worked with me to overcome my phobia of dentists, and most importantly has stated her limitations (removing lower wisdom teeth, etc.) and has been generally wonderful.
All the staff there are great (if a little slow, sometimes) and the only nit I have with the place is that the billing/​insurance interface is a bit wonky, resulting in me having to pay some unexpected bills — not horrible, though, but be careful.
That said, it’s the best dental office I’ve been to in my long life.

This was a first time visit and there was no cleaning involved. Apparently for first time patients, they only do X-​rays. I was very unimpressed with this practice. I was under the impression that you receive a cleaning when you make a dentist appointment. I also have full dental insurance. After the X-​rays were taken, I called in to have the X-​rays sent to me. I was told by the receptionist, that their computers crashed and no information was saved. Not only did she not have an answer for me, she said she doesn’t know when the problem will be fixed, or when or IF they will ever get the x-​rays back on the computer. I would not recommend anyone going into this office, as they are unprofessional and lack decent service.
On the bright side, I will say the billing process was easy. They billed my dental insurance directly for the x-​rays, but nothing else was performed. I think the problem was more w/​their receptionist than the actual dentist.

I’ve been going to this dentist office for 5 years and have had my teeth cleaned by a number of different dentists, all of whom have been great. Dr. Muniyappa was recommended to me by a coworker at my last place of employment after I had the worst experience picking a random dentist (why are most dentists like used car salesmen?). The first guy wanted to do over $ 1000 worth of work on my teeth, which had been well taken care of by a great dentist up in the Bay Area prior to that point. I walked out without getting the cleaning I came in for and never went back.
Dr. Muniyappa on the other hand did not say a word about any of the «issues» the other guy mentioned, calmly cleaned my teeth and even congratulated me on taking care of my teeth. I do have a ton of cavities due to laziness as a kid and a love of sweets, but have since learned to take care of my teeth well (constant fillings will motivate you). Since my fillings were not old, I tended to trust her judgement over the moron who wanted to do $ 1000 of cavity, gum and other work. NO mention was made of any sort of gum disease by Dr. Muniyappa!
In any case, I’ve always been happy with the people at the office and the cleanings. Happy enough that I kept them even when I moved. I did have an incident when I had to replace a filling about a year ago. My tooth ached so much, I thought something was seriously wrong. This was a tooth that had such a large cavity, it was starting to crack. Dr. Muniyappa took another look at the tooth for no extra charge and reassured me that the filling was fine and the tooth had not cracked any further. The pain went away after a few days.
I highly recommend this dental office. They are always accommodating. It’s easy to get an appointment and I trust the dentists here. They will not try and sell you treatments you don’t need.