Today I went to Dr. Boulter's office as a new patient using my Blue Cross Blue Sheild federal employee insurance plan. After a painful exam (measuring for periodontal disease) and extensive dictation about crowns and dental restoration he told me that I had a grave dental situation. Fractured teeth bad fillings etc.
I have known about my tooth fractures for years and have dealt with them when problems have presented themselves. Seeing where this consultation was headed I quickly informed Dr. Boulter of my financial limitations (extremely limited dental insurance) when it came to restorative dental work. He bristled back that he would not consider treating me except for a total treatment plan and told the hygenist that I should leave the office.
This is the most outragious situation that I have ever had in a dentist's office. I am warning anyone who is in the Jacksonville. Florida area and in need of a new dentist not to waste your hard earned money in consulting with this DR. Joseph Boulter. If you go to his web site you can see that he thinks very highly of himself and apparently so do some of the trade magazines around. I wonder if these publications are also aware of his practice of bullying patients into his prescribed (financially self-serving) treatment.
I have written to BCBS about having him removed as a preferred provider. The average federal employee does not have the income to finance ten's of thousands of dollars in reconstructive dentistry. I hope that they will consider removing him from the list.
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