Patient Testimonials & Reviews

We attempt to treat everybody as an individual and take into account that they’re walking into a scenario where most people aren’t overly comfortable. Most people don’t necessarily like coming to see us. And my philosophy is that I don’t take offense to that. I understand, I’ve unfortunately spent more time in a dental chair than I care to admit to everybody. But we try to take that into account that maybe people are, you know, not having the best day when they have to come see us. And we try and encourage and make a very comfortable environment for them.

One of our big goals is to provide a higher level of service. Both start to finish, from the moment we pick up the phone to the moment the patient leaves, to provide a better care for people and make them feel very comfortable and at home here. We don’t have an agenda, we just want to treat every person as the individual they are. And provide them the care that they need based upon their specific needs. Not everybody needs a full mouth of veneers, not everybody needs an implant. Some people just need to maintain, some people need more. And that’s what we try and cater to, and tailor everything we do to that patient’s individual needs and how they need to go about achieving their treatment goals.

In order to facilitate that, we employ a lot of wonderful technology that has helped us provide better care, more accurately, faster for patients. Between our three-dimensional X-ray unit, providing us basically cone beam CT technology, we can use that to better plant our implants and provide care for people and determine, and sometimes spot problems that wouldn’t be recognized otherwise. Our intraoral scanner can digitally take models of the teeth as opposed to the mouthfuls of goop of yesterday, which people find wonderful and way more comfortable, less impactful on them, as well as three-dimensional printing. We’ve, are utilizing three-dimensional printing to provide more accurate, better care for all of our patients.

My wife and I had a friend helping us put down a laminate floor one day. We got really tired and went up to bed, it was late at night. I had got up to go to the restroom and along the way there had my hands out in front of me like this, and apparently I was sleepwalking. The way our restroom door is, it’s right next to where the stairway is. I actually flew through the air about eight steps down, landing flat on my face, breaking every bone in my face, including one of the teeth and sending all the jaw back, the whole nine yards.

So I started researching it. You name the dental implant specialist that you’ve ever seen on a television set, I interviewed all of them. I got their different opinions, and one of the things we had talked about was having a full-mouth implant on the top. I figured at my age, I don’t need a full-mouth implant. One of the things you’ll notice the difference was a lot of these guys were just way astronomical high in terms of the cost of doing it. But Dr. Tyler, he took all this stuff into consideration, and he made a suggestion of what he could do since I didn’t want the whole upper implant. He made what is called a bridge.

When I checked with the others, I knew darn well he was shooting straight with me. I knew that I really appreciated his advice, and I decided, “Hey, I can’t lose with this, I don’t think.” So when he put this full bridge in, I believe there’s six teeth there, it really was amazing. It was better than the original equipment at my age. I mean, 81, what the heck. Not to mention I had a nice bad fall that caused the need for these, but all right, it’s amazing. It’s not just taking care of the ability to chew and bite things off, which I’m really finding is great. It’s cosmetic. There’s no question about it. It’s what people see when they look at you. So I appreciate it, and it’s been good.

I have had some dental fears in my life, and I just feel very relaxed with the staff and especially with Dr. Tyler. He seems to be up on the latest technology, and I just, I have no fear. I like the hygienists. I love the reception people. I like his assistants. I just feel very comfortable here, and I think that’s really important when you come into the dentist, not to be afraid.

I’ve had a lot of dental work, and I just, I feel very competent in Dr. Tyler’s ability, and just, he’s really patient. I knew for a while that I needed crowns on all six of my front teeth, but I didn’t want, like some … I’ve seen some dental work where people just have, like, fake – they look like choppers in the front, and I didn’t want that. These crowns look exactly like my regular teeth. So if you took a picture, before and after picture, obviously my teeth look much better, but the shape of my teeth are exactly the same.

He took a couple of impressions, and we talked about it for probably six months. Then that also gave me time to budget for it, plan financially. So yeah, so I’m just really happy. I need to have some more work redone, because I was done 25 years ago. He’s going to do that, and then I guess on the top and then one more tooth on the bottom, and I just, I feel really comfortable.
I know it’s not going to hurt. I just sit in the chair and they do their thing and then I get up and I go home. That’s the way I want it.

I told a lot of my friends, “Come here, it’s just, it’s very easy.”

I had two dark teeth. And it never bothered me. But my son got married, and I looked at the pictures, and I didn’t like what I saw. So he got married, I guess, a year and a half ago, and I saw that, and like, “No, wait a minute. That’s not a good look.”

And not to be vain or anything like that, but I think your smile, it’s kind of a signature of who you are. It’s not a signature of who you are, but it’s a projection. And so I just wanted to project myself in a really good light.

The six front crowns have really improved my smile dramatically. And I have people come up to me and say, “Wow, you look different. What did you do?” And I just say, “I went to Dr. Tyler.”
I had a friend, we were out for coffee one day, and she just looked at me, and she went like this, and she said, “Your teeth look really good.” So then I told her. Well, I think she knew that I’d had this procedure, but she didn’t really know how good they looked. And she’d just done Invisalign. So I said, “Yeah, these are just all crowns.”

And they are crowns, and they’re beautiful. And I’m really happy. But people have said, “What did you do?” Like, thought maybe I had a facelift or something. But no, just had my teeth fixed. Which is so much easier than having a facelift, I guess. I don’t know.

But yeah, so I’ve had a lot of compliments, lot of compliments. But like I said, they don’t look fake. So people, they don’t know what I did. They just know I look better.

My teeth were frankly awful. I had a very bad experience when I was young. It was a dentist, and I was always afraid to go. Just terrified, actually. My children finally got me to come here. My daughter did a lot of research all over the Puget Sound area thinking that implants would be the answer for me. When she found out and talked to them right here at Duvall Dental Center that they could do that, this was the answer. They have just been terrific right from the get-go, from giving me the estimates to the final product. So gentle. So nice. So caring. My fear of dentists and dental work has just completely gone. I come in now twice a year, if not more, and they’re just terrific. I can’t say enough about them, really.

The first appointment here, my daughter, who’s in her 40s, and my husband came with me, and they allowed them to come in chairside with me. My daughter so much as sat there next to me and held my hand, literally, and that was fine with them. My husband’s accompanied me in the beginning too, when I had the oral surgery, and that was fine with them. They’ve been very generous with their time and allowing family members to be part of it, and to get me over that hump really of being anxious, terribly anxious, about coming to the dental center. Like I said, that fear is now gone completely. I come in here, and I’m just glad to see everybody because they’re such nice people and very welcoming.

My teeth were in such bad shape. After evaluating them, there were two choices: one was dentures, and one was full dental implants. And I chose … and I was able to do this. My children who are all grown, unfortunately, they were able to help me so that we could afford the implants.

So, we went from oral surgery where what was left of my teeth were removed, to putting in the implants and having them. Now I don’t even think of them as anything but my own teeth, really. I can eat what I want.

Between the self-confidence and being able to eat what I want, that surgery was the best thing I could ever do for myself and my family and my friends in terms of dealing with me. Because, it’s like my whole personality has come out again. And I can’t tell you – it really is a life-altering experience.

I got out now with confidence. I can make jokes and laugh, and talk, and not even think about my smile, really, truthfully. But any inhibitions … you know, before I would keep my lip closed or I would try to laugh and I’d put my hand up, or I would certainly not show my teeth because they were in such bad shape. And now I don’t hesitate to smile, tell a joke, get up and speak in front of people.

This is sort of a funny thing, but I’m a dog show judge, and I travel around the country. I just came back from Palm Springs, and when I’m this far from a person and their dog, I can talk to them and not worry about my breath or my teeth, and I can smile and be friendly again. My self-confidence has returned, which was lost for many years, and it’s just been great. I mean, it really is a life-changing experience.

I had a very laborious job before, so a lot of grinding of my teeth. My front teeth, they were spaced. They had cracks in them, some had chips, wearing down. What he did was, by putting the crowns in the front, improved my smile. Now, I want to smile. Before, it was always a tight-lip smile. Now when I smile, I’m showing some teeth, a more natural smile, where before it was kind of like a forced smile.

Then just even talking to people, just the general appearance, it’s just 100 percent, a thousand times better than what they were. Dr. Tyler, I mean, he’s just done fantastic work. His staff has just been fantastic to work with. Dealing with the insurance and that kind of stuff, they really know how to work around it to maximize your insurance benefits.

Well, I came in right when Dr. Tyler opened his practice. He just has been amazing. His expertise is second to none, and he has a great personality, makes you feel comfortable. He explains everything that needs to be done. His hygienists are wonderful. They’re very caring, friendly, talk you through everything. The receptionists are great. He just has a good practice, and I enjoy coming here a lot.

Well, I think he really cares about his patients, and he just gives them a number one care from start to finish. It’s just a nice setting to come to. We have a small town here in Duvall, and it’s just wonderful to be able to have somebody of his expertise in our area. We’re very fortunate to have him in the Valley.

You can get the best quality care for your dental needs all in one place. He’ll guide you through whatever needs to be done. His staff and his receptionists are there to help you every step of the way. I just couldn’t recommend anybody more than Dr. Tyler and his staff here at Duvall Dental Center.

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