1 /5 Katrina Martin: Back in 2017 I went to Duane Moores office for a checkup, including a full set of x-rays. Duane Moore sat me down and said I had TWO upper molars with cracks, and they could break any time, it was critical that I get crowns on both teeth. I paid for one and put money down for the second. The first crown never set right, from the first moment I told him it was striking my bottom tooth and affected my bite. He made an attempt to fix it but could not and sent me home. I was so upset that I got my money back for the second "critical" crown and never went back to any dentist until today, 6 years later. My tooth went from being a perfectly fine healthy tooth, to a cursed husk of irritation. The way he created the crown not only destroyed my bite, it made a large gap that collects food daily like a pocket. Despite diligent daily Waterpik use, flossing, brushing, rinsing, etc, it bothers me every day. So today I went to a new dentist who took 18 x-rays of my mouth. He complemented me on the state of my teeth and gums, except he found a large decay in the tooth that butts up to the crown, obviously because of the food collecting pocket, so Ill need that filled. I asked him about the crack in my other tooth. Im sure by this point you can guess that there was no crack, there was never any crack. My new dentist told me that if there was a fracture that serious I would have felt at least sensitivity if not pain, and of course, it would have broken at some point in the SIX subsequent years.
Duane Moore is the owner of the famous "black houses" in Olympia, and drives a dilapidated steampunk car. As a colleague once remarked, and I can never forget it, "I wouldnt trust a dentist who has that level of fixation on decay." I wish I would have heard that one chilling sentence before I ever set foot in Duane Moores office. I can only hope to help at least one person with this review.
