Saturday, December 21, 2013

Two more visits to the dentist, $7,000US more.

I am continuing to go to the dentist. He is moving along with the front lower bridge. Next time the metal part will be finished. I am now wearing temporary crowns. The crowns made by Kreativ Dental are gone.

I had a slight infection that had to be cleaned.

The upper partial denture was adjusted. It does not fit well. I do not want to spend more money to replace it, if I do not have to.

I am SO sorry that I ever went to Budapest. The cleanliness of their beautiful dental center must be atrocious. I have never had infections like this. It was a total waste of money. It has caused so many problems.

If anyone else has a Kreativ Dental story they would like to share, I will publish it here. Email me and let me know.

I see they have continued their Internet blitz. They have their ads, videos and personal endorsements everywhere. It always amazes me how the worst products and the worst people look so good and advertise so much. These people know how to make money.


Friday, December 6, 2013

Three more visits to the dentist. $3,500US more paid.

I have been lax in writing about the dentist.

I have had three more visits in the past two weeks. I had the upper partial denture relined and 8 posts put into the teeth that had root canals.  I have paid 3,500US more for this.

The dentist adjusted the attachments of the upper partial denture. The attachments were never properly made at Kreativ Dental as they did not "seat" the partial denture correctly. The attachments were improperly made. Now, after they were fixed by my local dentist, the upper denture does not wobble.

I had posts put into the root canals. The dentist drilled holes into the root canals and inserted metal posts to hold the crowns. The upper crowns will stay until they go bad. The lower crowns are being replaced since they were made so badly by Kreativ Dental.

Remember, the work done by Kreativ Dental was solely cosmetic. There was nothing wrong with my teeth when I went to them. They ground down my teeth in the front and made crowns. Most of the crowns went bad and I am replacing the lowers ones. The upper crowns are staying but may need to be replaced later.  Kreativ Dental replaced partial dentures which I already had. I am having the lower denture remade. That denture was too bad to leave the way it was. 

I am lucky that I had the money to do this work. Otherwise, I would still have terrible infections and pain.

It is all an unnecessary expense due to the shoddy workmanship by Kreativ Dental of Budapest.

I would say that you should try to work something out with your local dentist. Traveling for dental care is highly risky. What are you going to do after you spend all of your money on foreign dental care and then you have an infected mouth at home months later?

Going to Budapest is only cheap if you stay in their bad hotel. If you stay downtown, as I did, it can be quite expensive. I paid as much in Budapest for the lack of care at Kreativ Dental as I would have paid in New York, but I had a wonderful vacation too. I am now paying for the work all over again.

Budapest is a wonderful historic city. Go there for a vacation, not for dental care. 



Sunday, November 3, 2013

I have to pay $30,000 US more!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finally had an appointment with the dentist (after a long wait and a cancellation). The bottom bridge completely failed. It was so loose it fell out!!

I now need a new front bridge of 6 teeth, posts in all 6 teeth, and two implants in the back to hold it together. It will take months to do this! I could cry.

As I have said before...There was nothing wrong with my teeth before I went to Kreativ Dental. I needed new partial dentures. I had cosmetic work done on the existing front teeth which were totally sound. Now, they are ruined.

Budapest is a beautiful city. Go there for a vacation, not dental care, certainly not to Kreativ Dental.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Criticism removed from tripadvisor.co.uk

There was a thread on traveladvisor.co.uk which had many criticisms of Kreativ Dental. It was removed today.

There is little criticism of Kreativ Dental on the web, not because they are good, but, because they have many lawyers.

Beware of Kreativ Dental.

I am still waiting to have my root canals finished by the prosthodontist. He had to cancel my last appointment due to an emergency he had.

My teeth are in a terrible state. I am still in danger of losing them all. They are loose and I hope the prosthodontist can fix this.

Kreativ Dental is an abomination.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Another visit to the gum dentist...

Today I went to the Periodontist. He checked the previous work he did and cleaned my teeth.

Now, I have to go to the Prosthodontist to get the almost new Kreativ Dental dentures fixed or replaced.

Thousands more dollars to pay...

Sunday, August 25, 2013

More gum surgery

On Friday, I went to the  gum surgeon again to have the upper teeth taken care of. He cleaned up the residual infection from the Buda-mess. It was a lesser job than the bottom where there was  the major infection.

This is still clean up from the bad work done by Kreativ Dental Clinic in Budapest.

I go back next week for a followup visit. Then, I have to go to the prosthodontist to finish the job with new dentures to replace my almost new dentures from Kreativ Dental Clinic in Budapest. He is also going to top off the root canals that were done previously.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

More Dental Adventures...Gums!

Today I went to the periodontist. He told me I needed gum surgery on the bottom and a cleaning on the top.

He did the gum surgery today. The infection that has been on the bottom, which caused the previous surgery, settled around the lower teeth. He cut through the gums and cleaned it all out. He scraped the bone and the roots of the teeth.

The infection was caused by the shoddy work done in Budapest by Kreativ Dental Clinic.

The work today cost me $2,250.

I go back next week to have the stitches removed from the bottom and for the cleaning of the upper teeth.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

No more root canals... for now.

The Endodontist started a root canal today on an upper canine tooth. Since all of the teeth are attached as a bridge across the front, he decided he could not drill through the entire post without causing damage. It would destroy the tooth and cause too many problems. He said to leave it until it becomes inflamed and there is not other choice than to clean out the root. Kreativ Dental did not fill the tooth properly but it has not become infected yet. The others were quite infected.

He cleaned the teeth around the lower teeth that were previously root canal-ed.  

The next step is to see the dentist about resurfacing the root canals.

I paid an additional $250 today.

I have not heard from Kreativ Dental Clinic lately.

I would not recommend Kreativ Dental Clinic to anyone I liked.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Two upper root canals were finished today.

I went to the endodontist today and he finished two more upper root canals. One tooth next to each incisor was completed. I am ending the penicillin for the infection.

In two weeks, he will do a root canal in one of the incisors. This will be a major endevor since the incisors have root canals done by Kreativ Dental. The dentist at Kreativ Dental did not fill in the entire root. They left an empty portion between the post and the filling. The endodontist will have to drill the post out of the tooth before redoing the root canal.

All of this work would be unnecessary if Kreativ Dental had done a decent job. I paid enough for them to do an excellent job. They may be Kreativ but they are not thorough or competent.  

Monday, June 24, 2013

Two more root canals, now, on the top.

Today, I started two more root canals. This time they are on the top. The endodontist said the margins were exposed when they were crowned. This caused decay. The roots were dead.

This was caused by shoddy work done by Kreativ Dental. They did bad cosmetic work on these teeth. They put crowns on the teeth and did not seal them.

 I paid $3,400US for the work today. Unnecessary expenses due to bad work by Kreativ Dental in Budapest.


Sunday, June 16, 2013

Disturbing news about the owner of Kreativ Dental clinic.

I was sent disturbing news about the owner of Kreativ Dental clinic, Attila Knoth,  by someone anonymously. I will not publish it now, but it shows how dishonest they can be.

The bridge was loose.

The teeth which were crowned by Kreativ Dental clinic were prepared together as a bridge. There are six crowns attached together across the bottom and the same thing across the top. It looked very nice. I was not happy with the dark color but I was pleased with the shape of the teeth.

It was the preparation underneath that ruined the teeth. And, the attachments for the dentures are weird. The attachments are all different heights. It makes no sense.

While having the root canals redone these past weeks, the bridge became loose. The bridge and the dentures were moving! The enitre bridge had no support because so much of the teeth surface was removed at Kreativ Dental clinic.

Remember, there was nothing wrong with these teeth before Kreativ Dental crowned them. This was a cosmetic job that was done while I was having new partial dentures made by them.

Now everything is finished on the bottom. All of those teeth have new root canals. It feels secure. Hopefully, It will last and the bad work done in Budapest is in the past. I shall see.

I have to get the upper teeth fixed now for $9,600.US (after giving Kreativ Dental over $11,000US and having the upper teeth redone for $8,000US.)


Friday, June 14, 2013

Sue, sue sue... They want to sue me.

Kreativ Dental sent me an email last week. They threatened to sue me for libel unless I removed criticism of them.

They did not like that I criticized Kreativ Dental.
They did not like that I said Kreativ Dental is bad.
They did not like that I said Kreativ Dental is incompetent.
They did not like that I said I felt cheated by Kreativ Dental.
They did not like that I said the dentists at Kreativ Dental do not care if they do decent work.
They did not like that I said I wasted my money by going to Kreativ Dental.
They did not like that I said I had to have the work done by Kreativ Dental re-done.
Kreativ Dental does not like to be criticized.

No one at Kreativ Dental signed the email. It was from the "Kreativ Dental team".

I guess it does not bother them that I like Budapest and I think it is a very nice city to visit. It is just not a city in which to have your teeth fixed. The Opera is wonderful and so are the concerts at their new Bela Bartok Concert Hall along the Danube.

Kreativ Dental threatened to sue me for libel. I am sure this threat works on people from the UK. Most of the Kreativ Dental victims, I mean, patients seem to be English. I know there are very strict libel laws in the UK. After all, Liberace won a libel suit there. He sued a newspaper that said he was gay.

One can see that a threat to sue there would stop criticism. This must be why there is little criticism of Kreativ Dental on the web. As soon as someone says that Kreativ Dental work was garbage, they get threatened.

I live in the United States. We do not have such strict libel laws. To win a lawsuit over me, Kreativ Dental would have to prove that my dental work was done correctly and that I did not have to get it re-done. They can not do this. This is the land of Paris Hilton and the Kardashians. Libel lawsuits threats do not work here.

Finishing the bottom root canals...

I continued at the endodontist today. He finished the remaining three root canals. All of the bottom teeth now have root canals where Kreativ Dental put crowns. I will have to go to the dentist to have him finish the cosmetic part.

Next, I start the root canals on the top teeth.

I was shown the x-rays of the top teeth. Kreativ Dental did two root canals on the top. They were done incorrectly. There is a long space between the cemented root and the post that they installed. It is very sloppy work. They have to be re-done. They knew it was bad when they did it. Anyone can see this in the x-ray.

Two other teeth on the top have spaces between the teeth and the crowns that show on the x-rays.

There seems to be nothing that was done correctly in Budapest.

My next appointment with the endodontist is in 10 days.

Monday, June 3, 2013

At the dentist again...

Today, I went back to the Endodontist to continue with the root canals. He started a new root canal and continued cleaning the others. There are now three uncompleted root canals on the bottom.

I have paid $8,000 US so far. It is approaching the amount I gave Kreativ Dental. It will certainly pass that amount.

Kreativ Dental is worse than bad. Kreativ Dental is worse than useless.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Two Root canals are finished.

I went to the endodontist on Friday. He finished two root canals. Two more are half finished. He is waiting for the infection to stop. There is one more root canal to do on the bottom.

The dentist at Kreativ Dental damaged all of the roots that he capped. There was nothing wrong with my teeth before he capped them. This is simply bad dentistry.

Next time the endodontist will start the last root canal on the bottom and hopefuly complete the others.

Then, it is on to the top teeth. What a waste of money!

Friday, May 3, 2013

The root canals continue... So does the infection.



I went to the endodontist.  He left the four root canals unfinished. There is still some puss in the canals. I continue the penicillin. 

I will go back to see when they can be completed. There is one more tooth on the bottom which has not been started. That will need a root canal too. 

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The pain has calmed for now.

The root canal pain has calmed for now. I go back to the endodontist on Thursday. The root canals are still open due to the infection. They will be checked and re-cleaned. I am glad I could stop taking the pain medications.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Pain, pain, major PAIN!!

I am in MAJOR PAIN from the root canals performed yesterday. The pain medications do not help much.

I hate you, Kreativ Dental!

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Two more root canals today!

First, I went to the dentist and he adjusted the bottom dentures so they would fit into my mouth again. He explained that the infection made the bone swollen so the dentures would not fit.

I, then, went to the endodontist to get the two root canals finished. They were still infected so the endodontist cleaned them out and resealed them temporarily.

He started two more root canals so the infection on the bottom front would finally go away.
He said the roots were dead in one. It was full of pus from the abscess.

He is going to clean them out again next week. The teeth are now sensitive. I am still on the Augmentin and Motrin.

The xrays still show abscess from the bad job under crowns. The endodontist said the crowns were not sealed properly.  He is sealing them from the inside.

Budapest... what a bad idea.
Kreativ Dental... what a bad idea.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

I have more dental work tomorrow.


I am going to the endodontist tomorrow to, hopefully, get the first 2 root canals finished. I also have to go to my dentist because the lower denture no longer fits. I suppose there is some swelling on the gums.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The new antibiotic seems to be well tolerated.

The Augmentin I was given seems to be working. I have had no reaction to it.

I see the reviews of Kreativ Dental and have to laugh. They are written by Kreativ Dental or on travel for dental websites which are obviously paid for by dentists.

When I was in Budapest the dentist said they threatened to sue someone who put something negative about them on the web. I should have taken that as a big clue. Now, after my experiences, these treatment abroad websites seem so phoney. Kreativ Dental treatment is bad. They do not care in what state the patient is in when he or she leaves Budapest. And, of course, afterwards there is no care by them or it is at their whim. I am stuck and not only is it going to cost me more than if I had it done here in the first place but now my teeth and in worse shape because of them.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

The doctor put me on Augmentin. I hope I have no reaction to that drug.

I went to Budapest to have some dental work done at Kreativ Dental.

They made upper and lower partial dentures to replace what I had. They also put crowns on my front teeth. That was a cosmetic job that I thought was a good idea since I was there anyway. The lower area is now completely infected.

The doctor put me on Augmentin. I hope I have no reaction to that drug. The operation is healing but aches. I can not wear the lower dentures while it heals. I hope they fit properly when it is healed.

I had nothing wrong with my mouth when I went to Kreativ Dental in Budapest. I simply needed new partial dentures for the back teeth. Now, I have major problems. 

The root canals are being done through the crowns since all of the front crowns are attached all the way across. I paid for individual crowns and if anything more happens I will have to replace 6 crowns on each of the top and bottom.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

A lot has happened since my last post. Not much was good.

On Wednesday, the abscess returned while the root canals were half done. My face is quite swollen and painful. I am taking pain medication.

I had to go to an Oral Surgeon and have it lanced. Then the next day, I went back to have the drain removed.  It was extremely painful before I went to the Surgeon. 

Then, on Thursday, I started having a reaction to the antibiotics. I had to go to a dermatologist. I have pain in my buttocks and a huge red spot on it...all from the antibiotics. Of course, I stopped taking the antibiotics.

I wish I had never gone to Budapest.

The drug reaction has stopped spreading. I was very worried about this.

I am going to the Emergency Room today because I need antibiotics for the abscess. I do not want it to return. They will know better than a dentist what I should take. And, It is Saturday.

Budapest, blah!


Friday, April 12, 2013

I started having root canals today.

The second opinion dentist send me to an endodontist.

I need root canals on all of my lower front teeth. I started having root canals today on two teeth. The dentist drilled through the crowns made by Kreativ Dental. The porcelain on the back of the crown flaked off. The dentist said it was made too thinly.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

I am getting a second opinion tomorrow.

 The pain has mostly subsided. The swelling has gone down. I have finished the penicillin. I am still taking Motrin.

I have an appointment with a dentist tomorrow to get a second opinion on what needs to be done.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

jaw pain

Motrin can only do so much. I have jaw pain that is not going away. The swelling is down by about 75% but there is still pain. I have to be careful when I eat. Cold hurts the front teeth and the pain from that lasts for hours.

I have an appointment with another dentist on Thursday for a second opinion.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

In pain and taken advantage of.

I am still taking the penicillin and Motrin. There is some pain as the dosage wears off. The swelling has gone down a lot. There is still a lump on the jaw though. The teeth that are decayed have pain when I eat. The teeth still look lovely though.

It is a shame that the understructure was so shoddily done. There was nothing to hold this together. They knew that after I left Budapest my mouth would fall apart. It is hard to complain from New York City to Budapest. I complained to them while I was there. None of this is a surprise.


It is so disheartening to feel taken advantage of again. Budapest is a lovely city. We had a very nice time there. We went to wonderful concerts and had great food. The people there, if they are so inclined, know how to take advantage of tourists easily. The language makes it impossible to defend oneself. They made a fine building to entice the medical tourists but, then, do not do a decent, ethical job. There are people like this everywhere.

Of course, some people get away unscathed and do ads for them saying how wonderful it all is. I wonder how long it takes for their case to decay and how they feel when they can not take their endorsement down.


Friday, March 22, 2013

I am still taking pencillin and Motrin.

There is less pain but still some swelling in the gums at the Kreativ Dental crowns. I am still taking  the Penicillin and Motrin to keep the infection under control.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

I am in pain.

I am in pain. I went to the dentist in New York and he said I have an infection under the lower bridge. I am taking Penicillin and Motrin.

The entire lower bridge is ruined. The teeth below the lower bridge are infected because they were not sealed when it was installed. The dentist did not put cement under the middle teeth of the bridge. It was laziness and lack of care.

There was nothing wrong with those teeth when I went to Budapest in the Fall of 2011. I wanted them capped so they would look good with the new partial dentures.

Kreativ Dental does not care what kind of job they send you home with. They knew it was bad when I left. We discussed it. They would not change it.

So, here I sit in pain at 4:30am thinking about what a fool I was to go to Budapest and how much this is going to cost me again.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Kreativ Dental in Budapest ruined my teeth.

I am back in New York City.

This is the story of what happened to my teeth after I returned from Kreativ Dental Clinic in Budapest.

I went to Kreativ Dental of Budapest for cosmetic dental work. They put in crowns and made new partial dentures. There was nothing wrong with my teeth before I went to Kreativ Dental. They turned my mouth into a nightmare.

I wasted my money on bad crowns and dentures. After I returned to New York City, I had abscesses and needed a gum operation. I had 8 root canals done to repair their bad dental work. I had to have the crowns replaced. I needed new partial dentures. 

I not only wasted my money but I had a lot of pain. It has taken a year to repair the bad dental work.

Beware of medical tourism, and bad dentists. Beware of Kreativ Dental of Budapest.I was cheated by Kreativ Dental of Budapest. 





They cheated me out of 2,500,000 forints which was worth over $11,000 US dollars at that time.

I paid for transportation from New York City to Budapest and back.

In addition, I stayed in downtown Budapest for over 2 months because their advertised hotel was a disaster.

I knew that I would not be saving much money for this trip. But, I thought I would have my teeth fixed properly.

Kreativ Dental did a terrible job.


The Kreativ Dental facility:
Kreativ Dental has its own building in a residential area of Budapest. The facility is quite impressive. It is a nicely designed building with labs, exam rooms, waiting areas and a snack bar. It could not be more pleasant.


When I arrived:
I arrived at Budapest and I was picked up at the airport by the Kreativ Dental van. It brought me to Eben Hotel which is near the dental facility.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g274887-d277019-Reviews-Eben_Hotel-Budapest_Central_Hungary.html

The hotel is disgusting. I started getting suspicious after the buildup that they gave the hotel. The halls were full of smoke. The rooms were dirty. The rooms were cheap dormitory rooms. Ikea furniture would be an improvement. As soon as I saw the room, I left and found a hotel room downtown.

For the remainder of the trip I stayed downtown paying much more per night than expected.

Instead of apologizing to me for this added expense Dr. Solymosi complained to me that I did not stay the night and that he had to pay the Eben Hotel for one night.


Dr. Iván Solymosi, General Practitioner
The dentist who did this bad job.























What I needed to be done:
 
I needed to have my upper and lower partial dentures re-done.

I wanted to have my front teeth capped. I needed 12 crowns.

Because I had these dentures for many years, I needed new tight dentures that would not put stress on the gums and bones.


What they said they would do:

They have a room just for explaining what they intend to do.

They showed me the precision attachment they would use on the partial dentures. They explained, at length, that it was a good attachment because the dentures would not press onto the gums and, therefore, would not wear down the bone.

They discussed with me that the crowns would possibly need root canals.

They showed me the materials that the crowns would be made of.

They charged extra for “precision” measurements for the dentures. They call it Arcus Digma. This costs over $1,000 US.


What they started to do:

Dr. Solymosi  started to do the work. Dr. Solymosi took impressions. The lab made the dentures and crowns.

I went to the see Dr. Solymosi over 20 times.

The dentures did not fit. The dentures did not have the precision attachments. The attachments that they used were not at all like the ones they showed me. It was not what was specified in the contact that I signed. It was not what I paid for.

They used a semi precision attachment that rests on the gums. This defeats the purpose of the precision attachment that they told me they would use.

The crowns were not the right size.
They installed two bridges instead of 12 crowns. 

Dr. Solymosi took weeks to adjust the dentures and the crowns. 


Dr. Solymosi only used the Arcus Digma on the last day before the denture was installed. They never used it to make the denture or the crowns. They called it a “gimmick” and laughed at it. It is a $1,200 gimmick that was useless.

When I complained to another dentist, Dr. Pilihaci, Dr. Solymosi agreed that he did a bad job. Dr. Pilihaci said he would do the job again, but then he changed his mind and refused.

The dentures never fit correctly.

They refuse to fix them. They refused while I was in Budapest. They refuse now while I am at home.

The root canals:

Dr. Solymosi said I only needed 2 root canals. He sent me to their root canal specialist on the ground floor, Dr. Ágh. She did the root canals in record speed. Dr. Ágh never took xrays to check what she did.

After I got home I started feeling the root canal. I went to a dentist who took xrays. The root canals are pushed down below the teeth, into the gum line. These are defective root canals. 


The crowns:

The crowns which are in the front almost look good. They are a weird color... much too dark... but they are a decent shape.

The problem is that they only made two bridges. This was unnecessary and obviously a lazy way to deal with fixing my mouth. I paid for twelve separate crowns and got two bridges.

Dr. Solymosi only put cement on the outer two crowns when cementing each bridge into my mouth.

The teeth that were not cemented properly hurt.
I told Dr. Solymosi this before I left Budapest. They refused to fix it. The bridges have leaked since the bridges were put into my mouth.

They will also have to be replaced because the wrong attachments were used. The dentures are pressing down on the bone and making it smaller. My mouth can not support that.

Since they did not make separate crowns, I will have to get 12 crowns to replace these two bad bridges that they made.

I told them these things while I was in Budapest. They would not fix them.



Dr. Cristian Pilihaci, General Practitioner
The dentist who said he would fix this bad job but then did not. 






Dr. Orsolya Ágh
The root canal specialist
She can do an amazingly fast root canal. They did not last.









Noémi Németh, receptionist

She screamed at me when I complained.
She said she would call the police if I did not leave.















Doesn't she look pleasant?











Kreativ Dental will not honor their guarantee.
The only thing they do well is making websites.


What I have to do now:
I have to get all of the dental work done again.
I have to pay for it as if I had never gone to Budapest.
All of the money spent in Budapest is gone.
Over $20,000 was wasted.

I would not recommend going to Budapest for dental care.
I would not recommend Kreativ Dental.
Kreativ Dental is all flash and little substance.