Patient Testimonials

Hi, I am Jenna. I am one of the hygienists here at Biltmore Commons Dental Care. I have been a hygienist with this office for six years and I’ve been in the dental profession for 13 years total. And prior to working at this office, I’ve worked with plenty of dentists who have done Invisalign treatment for their patients who recommended it for me, but I never saw the value in it for myself until I started working with Dr. Sadowski and seeing him doing his mini makeovers. So what the mini makeover consists of is Invisalign treatment and then whitening and then it’s cosmetic bonding and that goes on your front teeth from your canine to your canine and all the front teeth. So I had never had braces as a kid and I just had some mild overlapping, little bit of crowding of my lower front teeth. Didn’t really bother me much except for I’d always get this really stubborn stain on the inside of my lower front teeth and I’d go get my teeth cleaned every six months.

My hygienist would really have to work at getting that out. I became a hygienist myself. I would get in there all the time getting the stain out and it would just always come right back. When Dr. Sudowski did my Invisalign treatment for me, he undid that overlapping straight in my teeth, put them in their correct positioning and now I can get my floss all the way down in there. I can keep it really clean. I get my toothbrush back there and I no longer get that staining. I feel like so many of our patients come in and they complain to me about flossing. They say their teeth are too tight together. They can’t get the floss in there. It is shredding, it’s ripping. They don’t want to do it. Well, when you don’t floss, you get plaque and tartar build up underneath the gum line.

That stuff causes gingivitis, causes infection, can lead to bone loss and that bone is what holds your teeth in your mouth. It’s the foundation. So if you start losing bone, you can start losing teeth. My whole job as a hygienist is to try and prevent that. So why not just put the teeth in their correct position, do that Invisalign, make it so much easier for yourself to floss and keep things really clean and healthy. Another really awesome benefit to Dr. Sudowski’s mini makeover is this cosmetic bonding that he does. He places bonding just on the edges of your teeth from the canine to canine and all across the front teeth. And what that, for me, I have a really awesome habit of clenching my teeth together. I do it in my sleep. If I’m really focused at work, if I’m at the gym and my teeth are really clenched together, even grinding them together.

So over time that process, it causes damage to your teeth. It gave me gum recession. My teeth are more sensitive to cold, sweet. And I had these little chips on my front teeth and my canines. They were worn super flat. You could tell exactly where I liked to grind my favorite side to grind my teeth together. When you wear your canines flat, those are the corners of the mouth. They’re supposed to be pointed. They’re supposed to be pretty. So when you wear those flat, then you start wearing on the teeth behind those and those turn flat. And then behind that it’s a snowball effect. Then you start cracking teeth and needing crowns and spending all this money for restorative. When instead he does these bondings on the edges of the front teeth and what that did is it fixed all my little chips and fractures right here, but it also made my canines pointy and pretty and that guided my teeth and it protects them.

So now I don’t grind on those back teeth anymore. It’s almost like a little bumper on my canines. And if I’m clenching during the day, if I’m really focused, I have that protection. I’m clenching or grinding on his material, that little bit of material there instead of grinding my teeth flatter and flatter. So for function to keep my teeth healthy and strong, it’s going to make it last way longer. So my Invisalign process, it was supposed to be about 15 weeks. I did have one stubborn tooth that didn’t want to rotate all the way. It wasn’t wanting to turn, so we ended up going a full 20 weeks. We had re-scanned and made sure to do refinements, but that’s one thing I love about working with Dr. Sudowski. He is a little bit of a perfectionist so am I, but he wants to get that tooth perfect.

If it stays tilted or crooked, it can reflect light. It can look weird. It would look weird in pictures and he doesn’t want that. He wants it to be great and he wants you to be absolutely happy with those end results. So it’s worth it to me to spend that extra time and I’m so grateful that he does that. He didn’t only do it with me working here and going through it. He does that with all of his patients. He really cares and that’s awesome. So after I did my Invisalign, my mini makeover with Dr. Sudowski, I saw how much of a difference it made even just doing such little treatment. It wasn’t a lot and I recommended it to my husband, a couple family members have done it and anytime that I can, I’m definitely recommending it to patients, not only to get them that pretty beautiful smile that they want those cosmetics, but to help with their function, to help keep them protected and to help them get that floss in there, which is going to be your hygienist’s favorite part of it all.

Nicole : My name is Nicole and Biltmore has been my dental office for the past 12 years. Most recently I got veneers at Biltmore.

Chris : My name is Chris All and I’ve been coming to Biltmore for about 10 years. They’ve been my dentist and most recently in the last year I also got a set of beautiful veneers.

Nicole: I’ve been with Dr. Sadowski for so long and really it was his artistic eye and the fact that he is a perfectionist that made me decide to go with Biltmore. I had been receiving bonding for many, many years and he always did such a beautiful job with that, that I felt comfortable knowing that my veneers would be done perfectly with him.

Chris : I went with Biltmore and specifically Dr. Sadowski because of the patients that he’s displayed and again, the artistic eye that he has. I’ve been coming to him for years and getting the veneers, going through the process of orthodontics as well before that was something that we talked about doing for a very, very long time and he was patient. He was very meticulous when we went through the process and I wouldn’t have gone anywhere else to do it.

Nicole: Throughout the process, I should preface it by saying that I am probably the least comfortable dental patient ever. I do not like being in the dentist’s office. I do not like dental procedures. Even just getting my teeth cleaned makes me very nervous and very anxious and Built More Commons the whole office from the staff when you walk in to of course all the doctors just make me feel very, very comfortable. And in particular, Dr. Sadowski assured me that he would be there every step of the way. He did a great job of educating me about what veneers would mean for me and the process. Even to the point of getting his telephone member texting me the night before, making sure that I was comfortable. So I think I was as comfortable as a nervous patient could be.

Chris : So I felt very comfortable. I received a phone call from Dr. Sadowski the night before the veneers were put on and he was there every step of the way to try and make sure any questions I had were answered and follow up visits were prioritized and I really appreciated all of the effort that went into everything that they did.

Nicole: I was never really uncomfortable with my smile prior to the makeover, but since then I’m just exponentially more comfortable smiling, having people look at my teeth. I want to show them off and I love smiling now.

Chris : What this has meant for me, this was something that I had wanted to do for a very, very long time. I was not comfortable with my smile and looking back to try after the procedure was done, looking back on my phone to try and see pictures of kind of a before and after, I never smiled with my teeth until now and I’m still getting used to doing that because I would always just smile with a closed mouth, but it’s really been such a positive impact, so life changing in terms of confidence, in terms of being able to have a beautiful, bright smile and I really appreciate what they’ve done.

I’m Liz and I had veneers done. I came to Biltmore Dental because I’ve been coming here for years doing teeth cleaning and other teeth stuff. I unfortunately had a fall to where I cracked my teeth. I was a little clumsy. They got me in the next day. They took me through the whole process of having a root canal. I needed a crown and then they did the veneers after that. My makeover has been amazing. It makes me feel great. It gives me confidence. People compliment my teeth all the time and when I tell them veneers, they don’t even know. They say that it looks so realistic.

My name is Debby and Biltmore Dental Service replaced veneers for me. I had a very traumatic experience with a previous dentist who put in veneers that kept falling out and it was just terrible. It was a very vulnerable time in my life because I had went through surgery as well, a personal surgery. And so I had a lot going on at the time. I was referred to Biltmore after my niece heard about this experience that I had. She referred me over here to Dr. Sadowski and their team here. She had told me that when she came here that they told her, “Nope, we’re not doing veneers on you. You don’t need them.” And which was likely the case with me, but I had already made that choice and went through with the process with another dentist near my home. After that traumatic experience, I came over here and Dr. Sadowski was able to troubleshoot and find out why the other veneers weren’t working correctly and was eager to take on my case and help me.

He saw all the distress and stress I was in at the time. He was so calming, so caring, so compassionate for the experience I was having. I went ahead and was able to get a refund from the other dentist and come to Dr. Sadowski and he redid everything, [00:01:30] reviewed everything. He fixed everything. The unfortunate part was that when I went home, he did such a great job that the teeth that he put in looked a lot like my original teeth. And I thought, “Oh shoot, I have already taken the jump to get veneers and if I’m going to get veneers, I’m going to go big or go home. I’m going to go for a Hollywood smile.” And so I very sheepishly came and told Dr. Sadowski that I wasn’t totally happy and he was just very eager to meet my need and [00:02:00] to make me happy.

And he was like, “Well, we’ll do it. We’ll fix it. I’m not going to have you be unhappy with the smile so we’re going to do what you want. ” And he was able to fix my teeth and just give me the wild smile I was looking for since I had already made this decision and they just came out above and beyond. And it was from the beginning to the end, my experience here, the compassionate care, the phone calls, [00:02:30] the understanding. I mean, I was even in tears because I was, like I said, in a very vulnerable time in my life. The care here you won’t find in another dentistry. I cannot recommend this office enough. They are going to be my dentist for life. I’ve already referred other people as well. I’m just very happy with my smile. I did a fabulous job. I have not only more to smile about, but I have a smile that reflects what’s going on in the inside of me and I’m just so grateful for this office and all of the team that they have here.

It’s really meant a lot to me. Now not only my heart, but my smile can go on and I’m just so appreciative of everyone here.

My name is Elva. Some of the things that I’ve gotten is I’ve had a crown replaced by Dr. Perkins and some anterior bonding by Dr. Sadowski and it’s been pretty awesome. I’ve had the crown that was replaced. My first experience with a different dentist was pretty horrible. So having it done here by one of our amazing doctors and being the patient, it was a completely different experience where I was nervous and full of anxiety, none of that. So it was very easy to have the procedures done here. I love talking to people. I love helping people and there’s a big part of that here at Biltmore Commons Dental Care. I worked at other offices where there was a lack of compassion and that definitely shines through here. Our doctors have set the bar pretty high where not only do they care about our patients, but they have phenomenal work that they stand behind.

And that’s one thing that it’s hard to find at any office. I was one of those people that always covered my mouth when I would smile. I did not like showing my teeth. And once I got the bonding done, it’s just so crazy how easy it was to just smile and to go around smiling everywhere. And it definitely brings up your self-esteem and just gives you confidence. So I’m really grateful for that where I never thought to seek that. I got that here.

My name’s Christina Salasku and I had full veneers done. My family member recommended me and I have seen some of the work that Dr. Belistrino did and I was really happy and I wanted to have a really nice smile. I was super, super nervous when I came in because teeth, they’re in your face, but they calm my nerves, they show me what they were going to do and they made me feel great and confident that it’s going to turn out really nice and it has. I did not smile a lot before without covering my mouth because I was just very self-conscious about my teeth and once they were done, I am very confident smiling and showing off my new teeth. So it’s changed for me a lot.

I’m Dana Hanna. I got veneers and a bridge and a cap and I still have a couple more things I have to do. My girlfriend told me about Dr. B and Dr. S and I had to come and see. My teeth were worn down and chipped and I really needed veneers for a long time but was afraid to do it. And Dr. B made the process really, really easy for me. Everybody keeps saying, “You look like you’ve done something. You look younger. No one’s figured out it’s because my teeth are straight and whit and not chipped. Look at my teeth. It’s fantastic.

My name is Linda Barzalai and there’s no service that this dental practice hasn’t done for me. I’ve had one of everything because I’ve been with them since 1980. I’ve trusted them that our family trusts them. We’ve tested their endurance many times and just a few weeks ago, Dr. Perkins was with me in the chair for two and a half hours and he never left my side. And that’s what we love about this practice. The staff of the office is extraordinary. The assistants have been so wonderful in putting me at ease. There’s no detail of the practice that they don’t make sure is right for me. I’m very, very grateful that I had the opportunity to be with the practice and have that self-confidence. And it’s also been a relief just mentally that I’m not fearing a deaf dentist. I’m actually looking forward to coming and seeing everyone who does such wonderful things for me all the time and who truly, truly cares about me.