Pediatric Dental Group of Lakewood – Justin Cathers DDS, MS

First, I’ll start by saying that the practice has a bible verse right in your face when you walk in the door; very distasteful IMO.
Second, the staff isn’t exactly pleasant and they use too much force to complete what they see as the task at hand. My daughter is now terrified of the dentist, before this experience she was excited to see the dentist. So, in short, they failed at the main task which would be creating a favorable first impression of the dentist.
Third, the patient area has absolutely no privacy what so ever! It’s just rows of «tables» like a temporary triage center. It is a terrible atmosphere for a child. The pack ‘em in and profit big mentality is obviously first priority here.

My children have been patience at this practice for about three years. We have always had a great experience until our last visit in July. I can say after this visit I will not return to this practice. My four year old has always been a little reluctant with any cleaning, but the Dentist has always been able to take time with her. Not on the visit my children had never seen Dr. killin before, right off the bat my four year old was not willing to lay back on the table. So she was forced by Dr. Killin to lay back which scared her and she started to scream and cry, which I know can be a problem. So rather then let her up and maybe try to clean her teeth another day they proceeded to push me out of the way have three adults hold her down to just clean her teeth. She was so upset she was screaming and crying for me, sweating, drooling and ended up spitting tooth past everywhere which the Dr. Was openly annoyed by. The whole experience was traumatizing to her, my seven year old on the table next to her and I. This whole thing could have been avoided if only maybe we tried again another day at this point I’m not sure it will every be an easy thing to get her to do. When working with small children maybe forcing them and restraining isn’t the right method when there scared…

Dr. Cathers and every single staff member is so sweet and wonderful! My toddler was so scared about her first visit to the dentist but we have now been twice and every time we drive by the office, she happily points and says, «There’s Dr. Cathers!» She now looks forward to going… to the dentist! This is ground-​breaking!

I love love love the dentists and their assistants here! They were so very nice to my kiddos and myself. They explained all that they did and made my son feel very comfortable. They had my so. Pick a movie which showed on a t.v. on the ceiling so my son was entertained while getting a root canal.
My only complaints would be that they aren’t in network with our insurance but I like them so much I will still continue to go to them and the girls at the front desk don’t seem too friendly. They kept their heads down and kind of acted annoyed by us checking in.

Our son was very tongue-​tied and losing weight, so our pediatrician recommended this office to have it fixed. They fit us in the same day, and we’re wonderful, fast and just so caring. They even invited me to stay in the room and breastfeeding to see how it goes and calm my baby down. I’ll definitely be back once we have some teeth to look at. :-)

We had a great experience with Dr. Strange. He and his staff were great with our daughter. The office is clean, organized and very friendly.

We also met Dr. cathers because our son was tongue-​tied. He came very highly recommended by our lactation consultant (Amanda Ogden who was also wonderful) as the best person in town to do the procedure to release his tongue. He was so gentle with our son who was only 6 days old and made us feel so comfortable with our brand new baby in his care. We will be seeing him when it’s time to begin dentistry, were so glad to have been pointed in the right direction!

They were awesome! Dr. Cathers was wonderful with my son being seen. He and the other staff were very sweet to both of my boys! We have a new dentist, friendly service, nice facilities… recommend to anyone!

Dr. Cathers is incredibly nice, calming, soothing and wonderfully knowledgeable. We brought or 10 day old son here because he was tongue tied. This is a surprisingly under diagnosed problem with infants that leads to painful breast feeding and poor nutrition to the infant, not to mention further speech issues later. Dr. Cathers took his time to answer all of our questions, he was warm and kind. He performed the procedure allowed my wife to breast feed to calm our baby, then checked to make sure it was all our little guy needed. We both were amazed at the service we experienced and we will be bringing our little man here for all of his dentistry needs.