by Steve | Jun 8, 2015 | 1, Blog
When it comes to “practicing medicine,” the most skilled doctors are able to blend science and art into the most beneficial treatment possible for the patient. Well, I think in the case of my treatment at the hands of Dr. Daniel Orr, D.D.S., M.S. (Anesth.), Ph.D., J.D., M.D., science was thrown out the window and the art of treating a patient transitioned into voodoo or witchcraft or something – at least in my opinion. (Check out his website here and you’ll see what I mean: Dr. Daniel Orr.) There was definitely a lot of “practicing” going on with me, because nothing turned out right. Follow me now, please – would you trust a doctor who took the old-school, trusted, panoramic X-rays, and then didn’t even really refer to them when he pointed out the locations in my mouth where he proposed placing my implants? While I was reclining in the dental chair and he had his hands in my mouth and no X-rays for reference anywhere, he said, “I think I’ll put them here, here, here, here and here,” as he went across my gums. So I looked at the long, impressive list of credentials by Dr. Orr, and thought, “OK, this is finally my chance to make this right – to get my mouth back to fully functioning and as close to normal with natural teeth in them as I could get.” I figured that this was a pretty accomplished guy, and if anyone could do it, he could. Couldn’t have been more wrong. I guess I should have gotten a clue from his website, which borders on...
