Lakeview Smiles - Bucktown

If you’re in the market for a new dentist- choose this place.This whole office is amazing. Everyone is professional, nice and easy to talk to/work with. Rama is beyond friendly and does a fabulous job gently cleaning my sensitive teeth. Dr. Raoof is so knowledgeable, will patiently educate and answer question and is constantly learning more herself to better serve patients.

This review is long awaited. I went to this place some years ago, they had perfect 5 star reviews, I was so naive. (Please look at the Yelp reviews, those are more honest than the ones here on Google.) Dr. Raoof would tell me I needed to have fillings done and didn't care to show and explain why with the x-rays. She did various unnecessary fillings where she just scraped the top of some molars and put some fillings that were just straight up flat and weren't shaped to the original shape of my molars.This one particular time she filled a pre molar with a cavity that was behind a previous filling. She allowed for it to grow instead of treating it on time. I used to go every six months so for her to out of the blue then finally show me the x-ray with an obvious cavity was bewildering. As a dentist you should want to catch a cavity early and not let it grow.I made an appointment to get the cavity removed. Dr. Raoof always had the habit to chat with the hygienist about life instead of doing her job. During this appointment she asked the hygienist"is the cavity gone yet?". The cavity was on the side of the tooth but she managed to drill that side and also the top of the tooth.On top of that, the filling for that particular pre molar was horribly placed considering food would get stuck.With this in mind, I went and made another appointment and she told me that I would have to get a root canal and crown for it to be fixed considering the filling was too close to the nerve (I wonder why that may be). I insisted she redo the filling considering there was still some of my natural tooth left between the root and filling. It wasn't a lot but there was some. I even told her to leave some of the existing filling to prevent hitting the nerve, I didn't want a root canal; she got mad at me and stormed off. Never have I experienced this type of unprofessionalism at a dentist.At that time I was around 19-21 years old. Never have I had so many "teeth problems" before going to this place and after going here they magically stopped. People need to stop caring about the aesthetics of the place, the hospitality, and fake smiles and instead focus on whether or not you are being scammed.I have invested a lot of straight up cash into Lakeview Smiles only to have my health damaged by this company. In conclusion, my premolar was refilled by another dentist and the root canal nor crown was needed. Unfortunately, that pre molar is highly compromised and in the near future I will need both of that root canal and crown; for now everything is fine. My oral health is in worst conditions than what it was before I ever even knew about this place and I will barely be 23 years old. Now the rating here on Google is a 4.7 and it is only dropping. Please for the love of God do not go to Dr. Raoof she genuinely has no idea what she is doing as a dentist and just loves to be right even thought she is not at all.

I have had two outstanding experiences so far with Lakeview Smiles. Everyone at the practice is an absolute professional. Daisy at the front office will do all she can to ensure you are comfortable and was even able to reschedule me from the lakeview office to the Bucktown office in less than five minutes after I realized I booked the wrong location. My deep cleaning was thorough and my hygienist was able to clean effectively in less than an hour and a half without using injectable numbing medication (only topical) and it was pain free!I used to see the same dentist for over 25 years who recently retired, and I am absolutely pleased with my new dentist here at Lakeview Smiles. I highly recommend this practice to anyone looking for a deep cleaning or new dentist!