Dr Alberto Calvo Coto - Costa Rica, CR

My goodness, I am so sorry to hear what went on. It sounds like Foolish American had a pretty similar experience. Here is her review:

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You have the price listed as $250, but surely with travel and having to get things redone you have paid much more than that. Do you know approximately how much this entire experience has cost you?

What other work are you in need of at this point?

What a horrible experience!!! I had 8 upper teeth implant from this guy and my husband had 3 implants at the same time as well as deep cleaning. He had what he called Periodontitis specialist came in to deep clean our teeth and review my teeth condition. The anesthetic shot that he administers did not work on my husband and he had to endure painful session for the whole time he was getting treatment. (Anesthetic always worked for him before) After Dr. Coto finished installing screws on me, Periodontics prescribed medicine for pain and to prevent infection. He prescribed amoxicillin even though I put on my chart that I was allergic to Penicillin. I had a horrible allergic reaction after I got back to States. Based on what happened on our first visit, I should have known the thing was going to get worst. He schedules our session on the Friday Morning. We were schedule to return to US on that Sunday. My husband’s session went pretty quickly. He was done in about 2 hours or so. Mine on the other hand no so much. He had to have my clown remade because it did not fit properly. Of course that took several hours to complete. By the time he got new sets delivered was well after 6pm. All and all, it took another couple hours for him to complete putting my entire clown in. It was hard for me to tell how it went due to blood and swelling. When I realize it was totally not straight, we had to catch our flight back to US. As soon as we returned to US, My husband e-mailed him right away. He asks for us to return but why would we waste anymore of our time and money so that he can possibly fix what should have done correctly in the first place. I visited US Dentist for consultation to fix crocket teethe. After careful review, he told me that clown Dr. Coto use was totally substandard and it will cost me $12,000.00 to make it right not to mention inconvenience and more time wasted on the procedure that should be totally completed. When you call or send e-mail inquiry, they seems really nice and all but don’t let it fool you. All he cares about is money and money only.

I spent over 10,000.00 dollars just over two years ago to have beautiful teeth. Lost one crown less than a month after I had all this work done. Dr. Coto had me come back to Costa Rica (at my expense) to "make it right". Just lost another one today.
I should have listened to my gut instinct and never let him work on my teeth. They look great, but they are crap!
P.S.
He stole a gold crown that was put on (and lasted) for over 20 years.

The man is a quack! DO NOT GO THERE!

I had a terrible experience myself. The same thing happened to me! Decay around the gums due to the crowns not meeting with the gums. Dropped about $2500 for a couple crowns and a couple cavities filled. The crowns fell out a couple months later. I went back, had them redone, then they fell out again. On top of that, one of the crowns had gone missing, and he said that a sour employee must have taken it. I initially caught wind of this as he was speaking to the "specialist" in Spanish, and they'd apparently assumed that I understood none myself. After I answered in English, interjecting myself into their conversation, they went into another room to talk. Today, I found out that said specialist didn't even remove the roots completely, and now I'm looking at $10,000 to repair all the damage he's done. Please, do not go!!! Take out a loan, anything is better than getting this shoddy work.