Joaquin Berron: Incompetent Mexican Dentist and a crook

                   Joaquin Berron: Mexican Dentist who is Incompetent and a Crook

Joaquin Berron is a Mexican dentist who is incompetent and an outrageous crook.

Joaquin Berron owns a clinic in Cancun, Mexico, Dentaris,  that is a well oiled machine to deprive customers of their money and provide incompetent services related to dentist treatments. Te dentist also has a website called Dental Tourism.

The first thing they do is to do a bait and switch. That is, Alexandra, the office manage will send you a price list for options for implants and denture types. She will offer a very low price, for one set of implants and a second one for a little higher price, and then one where the price will almost double; despite what you want, the crooked dentist will talk you into the higher priced one as the best solution or claim the more expensive one was necessary before the less expensive choice could be put in. In the meantime, Alex has not even supplied the customer with a complete price list for the lower prices; she will later say that she is terrible at sending out prices as an excuse. 

1. Went to Cancun in March, 2014, and got caught in the scam. Dentist Berron took a CT scan to see where to put the implants, and ended up being totally incompetent when he did put them in. He placed the two right implants so close together that they are difficult to be cleaned effectively they should have been at least 3 mm apart but were only 1.5. mm.

(2) He put the two extreme left and right implants in at an angle that is contrary to all other dentists who angle implants. Berron’s claim was that he wanted to avoid the mental nerve, but real prosthodontists, oral surgeons and periodontists have said the angle is going the wrong way and they had never seen anything like this. The consensus is the right implants will fail because of the closeness of the implants. 

(3) The dentist was so incompetent that when he tried to solder the band that would connect the implants together, he fused the abutment with his soldering iron and the left most implant was not connected and created a lump in my jaw. 

(4) The temporary denture he put in cost a thousand dollars, and was so short that I could not eat for four months without extreme discomfort. The gums on both sides of the jaw were exposed and had to chew often on the gums. Welding with a soldering iron is old technology, another problem with this dentist; Americans and most other dentists would have used lasers to do the connecting.

(5) As the dentist admits, in an email to me, 9 days after the implants were done that an infection was likely to have been installed along with the implants. He gave me a 15 days supply of Clindamycin that he called a stronger antibiotic than Amoxicillin, but it is not. It is used for people who are allergic to penicillin, and no stronger than Amoxicillin, and according to my doctor, as opposed to dentist Berron, is weaker. It is always better to check a dentist’s prescription with a doctor who knows much more about drugs and their interactions.

(6) I returned to Cancun in July 2014, to have the denture put in. Because of the incompetent way dentist Berron did the procedures, I had to change to  a bar and over denture because the short denture was so terrible. The Bar and Denture were much cheaper in the initial price list, but the dentist charged me the price for the more expensive denture even when I did not get it. That is to say,, he did a bait and switch, was too incompetent to carry out the job but charged me for a “success” with the flawed denture and procedures that he charged $2500 for but were useless. Most of what he did now have to be removed.

(7) When I returned on july 22nd for my first visit the dentist did not even do a simple probe to check the implant for infection although I had had one immediately after the implants were put in that he had treated me for. Neither did he take a panoramic x-ray to check th implants. He later said he knew they were o.k because they did not move.

(8) After realizing I was the victim of a bait and switch scam on July 25, the last day I went to the dentist, I complained about being charged for something I did not get, but the Office Manager, said those were the correct charges.

(9) After thinking about the entire process a day or so later, I told the dentist I would not have anything more to do with him in Cancun, but would detail my complaints when i returned to the U.S. It did not work out that way because the dentist emailed me and we had an exchange where he tried to get me to take a panoramic x-ray but I declined, pointing out that it was now too late since I already had the bar and denture.

(10) After consulting U.S. dentists and saws what a botched job dentist Berron had done, and that I continued to have an infection in the left implant,I disputed the credit card payment. In his reply to Chase, the dentist contended that he had taken a x-ray in July and everything was o.k. and the work a success. This was a total fabrication and a cover up that the credit card accepted without doing an investigation to determine what actually happened. I have several emails from Berron showing the x-ray was never taken. What he and Alex did was to relabel the x-ray taken in March as one taken in July, a total scam.

(11) Crooked Dentist Berron also contended that I had been so satisfied with the success that I cancelled the last appointment; I did cancel it, but because I had discovered he was a crook, and on investigation late on that he was incompetent. But he seems to have forgotten the emails I wrote about the flawed procedures, not just in July but  as far back as in April when I reported the problems. with the denture. He called me a senile old man who had changed his mind about the success of his work.

(12) When i said Dentaris and Berron had a well oiled machine for scamming people, I mentioned his Office manager, Alexandra. She seems on the surface to be a real person with interest in doing a good job; she is very friendly and helpful, but this is part of the act. She was fully aware of the email exchange in July where I refused to fall for th scam of taking a x-ray that could then be altered because the dentist had sent her copies of the emails at the time. She has t go along with the dentist to keep her job, evidently, but she is just as willing to lie as he is.

The result is I am going to lose the left implant because of the infection; there is no way to save it even with periodontal treatment, and the right extreme implant has to come out as well. I will then have t have a locator denture placed o the remaining two middle implants at a cost of several thousand more dollars. I will have ended up paying around $20,000 for a denture I could have gotten for a fraction of that price in the U.S. and not gone through a year or more of pain and adverse consequences. Before you go to Cancun or to any Mexican dentist, be exceedingly careful because you cannot trust many of them, and credit card companies are never going to help you retrieve your money, and here is no accountability in Mexico; the lawless and corruption is not confined to politicians, and police , but permeates the entire culture and dentists  such as Berron are in the forefront of successfully carrying out a pervasive scam, and covering it up.

Pass this post along to as many people as yo can you might be considering a dental tourism vacation; it might end up being a dental tourist scam!