Mr. Alvaro E Gracia

I had an appointment with Dr. Alvaro Gracia last week due to a dental emergency. I have to confess I was afraid and very nervous of going to the dentist during the pandemic considering how the virus spreads. However, as soon as I got to the clinic I felt I did not need to worry. First, the staff asked me to wait in the car until I was called for the respective appointment, so that only one patient at a time walks inside the clinic. If this would have not been possible, they had reorganized the waiting room so that patients were able to wait 6 feet apart from each other. Also, before I walked inside, an employee, wearing mask and gloves, took my temperature and measured my oxygen saturation and pulse rate to make sure that I was healthy. I did not encounter anyone other than the staff when I was there and they were all properly equipped to make my visit safe. Dr. Gracia was wearing N95 mask with a face shield and gloves. Overall, I felt like all possible safety procedures were in place. Besides all this, all the employees were nice and helpful and made me feel I had nothing to be nervous about. Dr. Gracia explained to me all the measures he had taken to protect the staff and patients from the coronavirus; it was very comforting knowing all what he is doing to protect his patients and employees from any exposure to the virus. I will have to visit again the clinic next week to complete my procedure and now I am sure I have nothing to worry. I definitely recommend the practice even during this very difficult and challenging times. I had an appointment with Dr. Alvaro Gracia last week due to a dental emergency. I have to confess I was afraid and very nervous of going to the dentist during the pandemic considering how the virus spreads. However, as soon as I got to the … More

I have always been afraid to go to the dentist but Dr. Gracia and his assistants make me feel comfortable during my appointments and allowed me to get the work I needed done. Thank you to you and your office! I have always been afraid to go to the dentist but Dr. Gracia and his assistants make me feel comfortable during my appointments and allowed me to get the work I needed done. … More

I had a life-long fear of dentists. Then I went to Dr. Gracia. He is knowledgeable, capable, and a great dentist!! So glad he has changed my life for the better. He has put a smile on my face.

I have been coming to Dr. Gracia's office from NH for over 10 years and can't imagine going to a different dentist. Dr. Gracia and his staff has always taken care of me and I always leave the office happy with the work done. If you want the best! Go to Dr. Gracia!!!! I have been coming to Dr. Gracia's office from NH for over 10 years and can't imagine going to a different dentist. Dr. Gracia and his staff has always taken care of me and I always leave the office happy with the work done. … More

I had to have major dental work done in a very short period of time. Not only was Dr.Gracia accommodating but he exceeded all my expectations. The work Dr.Gracia did for me was second to none and am now happy to call him my regular dentist. I highly recommend anyone who is in the need of dental work to visit Dr.Gracia.

I have been a patient of Dr. Gracia's for 20 years and have been extremely happy with his level of care. At his practice, I have had scaling and grafting done by his affiliated periodontist and I have had practically all my oral exams and fillings done by Dr. Gracia personally. He was professional and courteous and he provided excellent care in every case. On those times he was not available during my visit, the other dentists at the office handled my case just fine in all but one instance (in which a new DMD simply recommended an unnecessary treatment). Dr. Gracia's hygienists have been excellent. For my fillings, bonding, checkups, and other care for 20 years, Dr. Alvaro Gracia has been excellent, and he continues to be my dental healthcare provider of choice. I have been a patient of Dr. Gracia's for 20 years and have been extremely happy with his level of care. At his practice, I have had scaling and grafting done by his affiliated periodontist and I have had practically all my oral exams and … More

I am a dentist that came from Chicago area to get my mouth rehabilitated by Dr. Gracia. We had spoken about my case and he seemed like the doctor that could take care of my problems. We discussed what it was that I wanted to accomplish which was to be conservative in the preparation of my teeth and to make my smile brighter. I sent Dr. Gracia my mounted models and photos. The models were in CR. I wanted to just lightly close the bite in CR which would have meant that he did not need to much preparation on the biting surface of the teeth. His lab was supposed to make a wax up that was in CR and would allow for minimal prep. I am going to have a web site to explain the nightmare of my teeth. The whole process was bad. 5 of the temps came off within a week of the procedure. The color of the temps was a very dark shade and there was poor communication with his lab. I talked to the Dr. and he said that we could do the case in 2 visits, one to prep the teeth and take impressions and one about a month later to deliver the final crowns. I was very upset after the first visit because the shade of the temporaries were not even close to being a light shade. I was not aware that he was grinding so much of my tooth structure. He did not take accurate bite records. His staff laughed at me when I suggested a way to take what is called cross bites to maintain the proper vertical relationship of the teeth with the temporaries. The crowns were cemented with temp cement and I was on my way. Ugly dark teeth and within a week 5 of the temps had come off. On a personal note, I could not understand why Dr. Gracia was talking to his staff and anyone within ear shot of his operator y about his physician friend (who he named, I will not name him here) who spent time at his vacation home smoking marijuana. That to me was very unethical. I proposed to the dr that we make another set of temporary teeth called PMMA. He agreed. This meant that there was to now be a third appointment. The day of the PMMA delivery I took a look at the models of my teeth and I was temporarily set back. They looked very rough with sharp line angles. The doctor took of my old temporary teeth and tried to place the PMMA's . They did not fit very well and he had to do massive amounts of adjustments to them as well as to some of my teeth to make them fit. He started to adjust the bite(How the teeth come together) and used a very thick paper. I would have imagined that he would use the thinnest articulating paper to fine tune the bite. He spent a lot of time adjusting my bite on the temporary teeth. At some point he said that I had a balanced occlusion. When I bit down, all I could feel was an upper rt and lower rt tooth touching. None of the teeth fit together. He kept trying to tell me that everything was fine. I kept saying that there was minimal contact and he was almost like trying to talk me into having a better bite. I was wondering if he was doing some sort of Scientology technique on me trying to somehow to get me accept a less than acceptable result. It was at this moment that I lost all confidence in the doctor. We went upstairs then to his office and I told him that I was not even close to being pleased with the work he did. He yelled at me and said that he did not need my money and he was so busy he was wasting his time with me. Fortunately he did not send the case to have the final crowns because that would have been a total disaster with lots of expense on his or my part. He then went on the say that my case could not be taken care of unless I redid all of my teeth, not just my upper teeth. His staff became very rude and even sent me emails saying that I had gone walking around the office and bad mouthed the doctor while I was there. They were very hostile to me and my wife. I will have a link on this site to a webpage I am working on that will have photos and go into more detail about my bad times at Dr. Gracia's office. I am a dentist that came from Chicago area to get my mouth rehabilitated by Dr. Gracia. We had spoken about my case and he seemed like the doctor that could take care of my problems. We discussed what it was that I wanted to accomplish … More