John S Lyon, DDS

Thank the Tooth Fairy that I didn’t have the experience of Jen, the first reviewer… please send her some good vibes right now, if you’re so inclined.
My experience was not traumatic. I feel lucky. I anticipate trauma every time i go to the dentist because what they do is managed trauma. The sucking, drilling, drooling and knowledge that the air’s filled with people’s pulverized tooth dust! Some dentists manage this inherent trauma better than others.
Dr. Lyons & Lyons (husband/​wife team) didn’t do so great.
The end product of my cleaning was good. Clean teeth. No damage. But, I felt like I was drugged: Dr. Mrs. Lyons lectured me on dental stuff the whole time. During breaks in between water-​pic cleaning, it was interesting & I appreciated the info. But, the majority of the time, I was deafened by the equipment and could only hear a muffled «Mwa mwaaa mwa mwat mwat mwat mwaaaaawww». That plus staring up at the bright exam light, made purple from the safety sunglasses i was wearing. It was a trip.
Some time later, I returned for the drill… yikes! It wasn’t that bad b/​c they numbed me with a local so I didn’t feel the novocaine shots. Here’s what was bad: the Vibe. Dr. Mr. Lyons conducted my minor filling as if it were emergency heart transplant surgery. He jabbed his assistant with the name of the tool he needed next. He insisted the sweet assistant hold his tools in the exact coordinates to enable a 2 second exchange instead of a 3 second exchange. He said please but it was just a sound. The snappy motions with which they exchanged tools reminded me of a marine brandishing his weapon @ a very official funeral. At one point, he grabbed the assistant’s wrist to position it 4 millimeters closer to him, thusly shaving off the .35 second that most assuredly saved my LIFE! Er, I mean, got me out of there a little quicker.
I’ve had about 6 other filling experiences with almost that many other dentists, all of the fillings more complicated & extensive than this one. Dr. Lyons did a fine job. My tongue’s still there. I can move my eyeballs. I still can’t wiggle my nose.
But, because of this vibe, I felt terribly anxious while under the drill. I felt bad that the assistant was treated so abrasively. I felt curious about how she and the other nice women were treated when there wasn’t a patient present.
I won’t be going back to this office. They did fine work with this minor filling but, the vibe stuck with me.

Do not go to this dentist. To start with, he’s abusive to his staff. They are clearly in fear of him.
Next, he doesn’t know what he’s doing. My wisdom tooth extraction experience follows:
The procedure (and risks) were never discussed with me beforehand. I showed up on the day of the appointment, and was given valium and demerol. I couldn’t tolerate the nitrous oxide, so they gave up on that.
During the procedure (which I was fully conscious for, though I couldn’t feel anything), I heard him say, «Gee, it looked so much easier in the X-​ray…» Wow, that inspires confidence.
He only managed to get 2 teeth out in the time it normally takes to remove 4 teeth. He had to let me go at that point, because the drugs were wearing off.
I got home and spent 24 hours sleeping and taking pain meds. When I got up, I had a massive bruise on my cheek, and tears in the skin at the corner of my mouth from having my mouth stretched too wide during the procedure. This was only the beginning.
As it turns out, my jaw muscles knitted together during my 24 hour nap, and had to be slowly pried apart. This hurt so much that it caused my eyes to water involuntarily. When I told this monster of a dentist that he was hurting me, and to stop, he told me to grow up.
In addition, he cut a hole in my sinus, resulting in a massive infection in my cheek which resulted in a month of two kinds of strong antibiotics, one prescribed by «Dr.» Lyon, and the other prescribed by the oral surgeon he sent me to after he panicked because the first antibiotics weren’t working.
He also severed a nerve, I still don’t have full feeling in the right side of my mouth and never will. Dentists that I’ve seen since this whole episode are all appalled at the scarring inside my mouth from the removal.
I will never get my other two wisdom teeth removed, and I have a hard time even visiting any other dentist because of this butcher. Stay away from him.