Read review posted by byronleonard on Aug. 8, 2009, 12:25 p.m. for Dr. Lawrence Rorick - Dentist

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Dr. Lawrence Rorick DDS - Dentist

4.5 based on 5 reviews

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Oceanside, CA

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Review by byronleonard Stars: 4.5 on 2009-08-08 Link

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Dr. Rorick is a great dentist. I feel that he is very technically competent. I trust his decisions better than any dentist I have been to. A few years ago my son feel and hit his front baby tooth hard enough so that the tooth bruised and turned light gray for about three months. The current pediatric dentist that we were seeing told us that the tooth should be pulled. I wanted another opinion since this meant that my son would be without a front tooth for about 4 years until the adult tooth grew in. So I took him to my dentist, Dr. Rorick. Dr. Rorick said that pulling the tooth was exactly what we didn't want to do since this would delay the adult tooth even more. He described very clearly on the x-ray how the damaged tooth would actually help the adult tooth push its way through the bone by providing a path through the bone. Without this path the adult tooth would have a much harder time coming out. His predictions proved exactly accurate. Eventually the damage tooth fell out on its own. The adult tooth took about 9 months to come out after the baby tooth fell. His other front tooth (the undamaged one) fell out and that adult tooth came in much quicker.

About Hygienist: So over all my son was without a front tooth for maybe 4 to 6 months more than he would have been if the tooth had never been damaged. If we had pulled it as the first dentist suggested he would have been without a front tooth for 4 to 5 years. Thank you Dr. Rorick. Also as my personal dentist I feel that Dr. Rorick does great work and provides great value as his prices are reasonable. The only negative I can say is that as a pediatric dentist Dr. Rorick could be a little more patient. Technically he is excellent but working with kids is not his specialty.

I know this doctor: 5 years