Individual suggests previous South Burlington dental business owes him 1000’s of pounds

A dental surgery place of work on Williston Highway in South Burlington has shut with no warning. A person of its previous clients states it owes him 1000’s of bucks.

“You know, it is difficult to eat with out tooth,” Andrew Grey of Waterbury said Friday.

Grey stated he’s experienced difficulty ingesting for about six months. He blames the former Inexpensive Dentures & Implants office environment at the Little Meadows Procuring Middle.

“I went to them and I reported, ‘listen, I’m going to get my teeth pulled out’,” Grey pointed out. “I explained, ‘are you going to be equipped to get dentures for me?’. And they agreed they would, so I bought 20 teeth pulled out of my mouth.”

Following paying $3,400, Grey reported he’s nonetheless waiting for those dentures. He last visited the business office about a thirty day period in the past.

“I showed up the working day that they closed the doors,” he mentioned. “I showed up early, and I had to run throughout town genuine rapid. By the time I arrived again, they experienced previously scraped off the title off the door and set up a flyer that claimed ‘we’re shut until additional notice’. I known as the key business they did not want to refund me. I attempted to get a hold of Dr. Bench.”

Documents from the Better Business enterprise Bureau demonstrate Dr. Stephen Bench as the owner. Neither a doing the job mobile phone amount for him, nor a present-day address, ended up offered by Friday night’s deadline.

The BBB has gained several problems about his business office from this 12 months by itself. Gray is seeking to get funds alongside one another for dentures from a different exercise.

“They claimed, ‘oh, we’ve received so quite a few patients coming in that Affordable Dentures did that to them, too’,” he stated.

The previous Very affordable Dentures office environment is now vacant. The lights are off and the doors are locked.

The office’s outlined cellular phone quantity is still operational. Nonetheless, it directs callers to a recording that involves the information, “You have achieved our voice mail possibly since we are active serving to a further individual or our business is at the moment closed.”

When a reporter dialed the toll-free of charge mobile phone line for Reasonably priced Dentures & Implants, he was presented two figures to get in touch with at company headquarters in North Carolina. 1 of these was the selection for Karen Carter, the company’s media coordinator. She neither answered nor returned various phone calls.

The other phone quantity furnished to the reporter was inoperative. It directs callers to the recorded message, “Your connect with can not be completed as dialed. Please check out the range and dial yet again.”

Gray stated that as of Friday, he had not attained out to the Vermont Attorney General’s workplace. On the other hand, in an electronic mail to ABC 22 and Fox 44 News, Main of Staff members Lauren Jandl mentioned:

“The Legal professional General’s Business office is conscious of the complaint about this entity, and we are seeking into this make any difference. Pursuant to place of work coverage, we cannot validate whether a official investigation is underway. Vermont shoppers with a complaint involving this issue are encouraged to speak to the Legal professional General’s Consumer Help Program by calling 1-800-649-2424 or browsing ago.vermont.gov/cap.”

Due to the fact Grey had not spoken with the A.G.’s business office, he are unable to have been the individual who filed the criticism Jandl outlined. This supports Gray’s assertion that other Economical Dentures individuals have also misplaced money.

A agent with Very affordable Dentures did ship a statement to ABC 22 and Fox 44 stating:

Very affordable Dentures & Implants is fully commited to giving valued individuals with high-top quality, compassionate care. The Inexpensive Dentures & Implants practice in Burlington, Vermont, owned by Dr. Stephen Bench, vacated its business at 1162 Williston Highway, Burlington, VT. Individuals of Dr. Bench’s previous Inexpensive Dentures & Implants practice can contact 1-800-DENTURE for additional support with their continuation of treatment.

The representative also clarified that Karen Carter is not the media coordinator, that she applied to function in the marketing division but no for a longer time will work for Economical Dentures.

This story was current with a statement from Cost-effective Dentures