John R Saunderson, DMD

I have been seeing Dr. Nelson for my dental implant surgeries and I’m extremely happy with my results thus far. I have had extractions and the implant placements. I was put to sleep for both of my procedures. I am so incredibly afraid of IVs. Dr. Nelson is really great with fear. I appreciate that. I will be back in a couple months to finish with the permanent teeth. Great surgeon, nice guy. :)

This place charges so much money! This place sucks! They always ask you to pay and some how insurance never pay enough and ask for more! Can’t be trusted

While the dental work done on my daughter was great, I missed one appointment with Dr. Saunderson and was charged $ 100. WOW! $ 100 for a missed appointment. I just found this out on my credit report, and they charged interest on the $ 100, which is now $ 167.07.
I was told that my daughter needed another extraction and Dr. Nutter referred us to Dr. Saunderson. I told him about my missed appointment charge and he agreed that others complained about him.

I may be speaking too soon but I got my wisdom teeth out today and so far so good. No pain, no swelling, nothing. I had Dr. Nelson who was very good and patient with me. I was very anxious and in tears about the IV and he did his best to make me comfortable. However I do have many issues with the front office. I went in a couple months ago for my consultation with Dr. Saunderson and was under the impression that he’d be my doctor during the surgery up until yesterday when I was told that’s not who I was scheduled with. On the day of my consultation the women in front weren’t very helpful and I didn’t even get seen until an hour after my appointment was scheduled for with no explanation or apology from anyone other then Dr. Saunderson himself. Today when I went in the woman up there still wasn’t all that great she had an attitude while speaking to me and wasn’t consistently at the desk. All in all though my experience with Dr. Nelson was good as well as my consultation with Dr.Saunderson. If not for the ladies in front id give five stars.

Just wanted to toss in my own positive experience. At age 64 I was very nervous about having my partially erupted wisdom tooth removed. Saunderson was very patient and explicit in explaining the possible complications and the likelihood of each.
It went better than I could have imagined. With the IV sedation it was painless. No pain, bruising, swelling or numbness (after the anesthetic wore off) afterwards. Didn’t need the pain pills so I was back on my motorcycle the next day.
This is probably better than the average experience, but my impression is that Saunderson is very competent.

My daughter and I have yet to have our oral surgeries done. However, we did receive consultations in October 2013. For the record, Dr. Saunderson DID mention the risk of developing a dry socket after an extraction, along with the various other risks involved with oral surgery. Yes, they did scare us but I do appreciate that he was forthcoming.
After reading the 1^st person’s review, I pray that neither of us develop a dry socket (or any other complication) as it sounds AWFUL. I will admit that Dr. Saunderson himself shared his dry sense of humor and I can appreciate that I’d be frustrated with him too had I gone through such awful pain. I will also say that one of his front office assistants could use a bit ore warmth in her approach.
However, my consultation with the doctor himself was great and I will follow up after my daughter’s surgery in March 2014 (spring break).

I don’t normally write reviews on Unilocal,but after reading the one below me, I had to. I had my wisdom teeth out a week ago and Dr. Saunderson was amazing. I have gone to the same dentist my entire life and was terrified he told me I needed my wisdom teeth out and recommended me to an oral surgeon. Even after my initial consultation, I was still terrified since I had never been put under anesthesia or had an IV in my arm.
Dr. Saunderson’s staff was great that morning, and the Dr. came in and went to work. I was out within minutes of him coming in the room and woke up what seemed like 5 minutes later. My recovery was easy, and Dr. Saunderson even called a few days later to check on me. It has been a week and my stitches are dissolving and the wounds are healing nicely. The instructions given to me by his office were very thorough and helpful for recovery. Yes, there was pain, but that is to be expected with this type of surgery. I’ve heard of people having bruises on their jaw line after wisdom teeth removal, and swelling up like a chipmonk. I had the tiniest yellow bruises on my cheeks, and barely any swelling.
The person below me had a bad experience, so they’re writing a horrible review. ANYONE can get dry sockets (more likely so if you don’t follow post-​op instructions). I’m sure the process for fixing the dry sockets was painful, but that’s a COMMON complication of this surgery. I’m sure there wasn’t anything Dr. Saunderson could have done to make the process completely painless. This isn’t your normal cavity filling or root canal. it’s SURGERY after all.
I would recommend Dr. Saunderson to anyone. He has years of experience and was recommended to me by an amazing dentist that I trust. If I ever need oral surgery again, Dr. Saunderson will be the only surgeon I trust to do it.

Dr. Saunderson is the main guy that everyone goes to in Fairfield. All my friends have gone to him, my brother, and my mom. I had only heard general reviews about him; nothing good, nothing bad. My experience, however, was terrible.
The actual extraction went fine. I went home and thought everything was fine. By the second or third day, my bottom right extraction site was giving me a lot of pain. I figured it was just swollen and I proceeded to wait it out. On the fifth day I definitely needed to go get it checked because it was not getting better. I went in and ended up having the most traumatic experience of my life. I will admit, I have some anxiety about dentistry in general (I’ve had some pretty intense experiences as a kid), but I was in a good place going into this extraction. Turns out I have dry socket. I had no idea what the doctor had to do to fix it, but I found out real fast. He had to pull out my stitches that hadn’t dissolved, irrigate the wound with water, and then put medicate gauze into the hole to promote healing.
The stitches didn’t really hurt. He just clipped them out. Then he gave me three shots of medicine to numb me up but he ended up squirting the medicine into my mouth which has the nastiest taste ever. It was so bitter and started running down my throat so I had to sit up and spit it out. Then the irrigation was so extremely painful I literally yelled out in the middle of it because I couldn’t contain myself. I was holding back tears the whole time too. It literally felt like he was pulling open the wound and pressure washing it. There was so much pressure it was insane. Then he inserted the gauze and the pressure from that was also so painful and my gums were so inflamed. It was bleeding a lot too. My mom had to step out of the room because it was too painful to watch. After all that, I went home and still barely had any relief and now I have to go back every other day to change the gauze until it heals.
I am so infuriated at how terrible of a job Dr. Saunderson did. I will NEVER recommend him to anyone. I also found his attitude to be very annoying. He is very sarcastic and I really don’t care for that sort of thing. I didn’t like the assistance either. After my very traumatic and painful experience, one of the assistants called out to my mom and said «He’s fine. He’s sitting comfortably now.» I was literally sitting in the chair spitting out blood, shaking uncontrollably, and crying. I didn’t feel cared for at all.
On a more positive note, I had the other doctor there, Dr. Nelson, change my gauze today and he was much nicer, more patient, and more gentle than Dr. Saunderson. I would recommend him if you had to go there office.