Alivio Dental
Downtown Aurora family dentistry on West Galena Boulevard, with Saturday and early-evening hours.
Smyleee Rating
Good
About Alivio Dental
Alivio means relief in Spanish, and the practice Dr. Kaur runs on West Galena Boulevard treats that as a brief rather than a brand name. The work sits at the ordinary end of dentistry, which is where most people actually need help: cleanings and deep cleanings, fillings, bonding, sealants, root canals, crowns, extractions, dentures, bridges, inlays and onlays, veneers and whitening, for children through to seniors. Imaging is digital, and a small intraoral camera puts a magnified photograph of the tooth under discussion on the monitor beside the chair, which is how a hairline crack or a shadow beneath an old filling stops being a claim and becomes something you have looked at yourself.
The decision most patients face here is filling versus crown, and it is worth understanding before you are reclined in the chair. A filling replaces lost tooth structure and works well while enough healthy wall still surrounds it. Once decay or a fracture has taken a cusp, or once a root canal has hollowed the tooth out, a filling is carrying a chewing load it cannot hold and the tooth eventually splits. A crown wraps the remaining structure and binds it together. It costs several times more, so the temptation to patch and hope is understandable, but a split root usually means extraction, and extraction plus replacement costs more again. Ask to see the intraoral photograph and have the remaining wall thickness explained to you.
The address places the office in the heart of downtown Aurora, a short walk or a single bus ride from the Aurora Transportation Center and the Metra line, and served by the Pace routes that converge there. That makes it one of the more reachable dental practices in the city for patients who do not drive, which is not true of most offices out along the arterial roads. A second Alivio location in Downers Grove serves patients further east in DuPage County.
On money, settle three things before treatment starts rather than after. Ask what the office charges for the specific procedure being proposed, what your plan is expected to pay towards it, and whether the remainder can be split across instalments. Practices differ on all three, and a front desk willing to put the answers in writing is telling you something worth knowing. If you have no coverage at all, ask separately what an examination with X-rays costs on its own, because that is the visit which decides everything after it and it is usually the cheapest item on the list. Saturday appointments are offered and weekday hours run into the early evening.
Alivio Dental, led by Dr. Kaur on West Galena Boulevard, sits in the walkable centre of Aurora rather than out on an arterial road, a few minutes from the Aurora Transportation Center and the Pace and Metra services that meet there. Care runs from children to seniors: cleanings and deep cleanings, fillings, bonding, sealants, root canals, crowns, extractions, dentures, bridges, inlays and onlays, veneers and whitening. Saturday and early-evening appointments are offered, and a second office serves Downers Grove.
Clinic Details
Best Known For
Affordable Dental Care, Family Dental Care, General Dentistry, Cosmetic Dentistry
Business Hours
| Monday | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
| Tuesday(Today) | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
| Wednesday | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
| Thursday | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
| Friday | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
| Saturday | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Sunday | Closed |
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Reviews
Smyleee Rating
Good
29 reviews
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Recent Reviews
I've been coming here for years now. Great service. Friendly and professional.
I thought the service was excellent. I had several teeth extracted with no pain. The staff was excellent from Jasmine at the front desk and Ember and Teresa the assistants and Dr. Kaur.
Meets standards
I wish I could give zero stars. In my opinion, run far away from this place and don't take your family. They can't help you with the issues and refer you out to a place that doesn't accept your insurance but want you to come back for a deep cleaning with a dentist in a whole space suit. You can hear the air blowing into the space suit from the hose attacked to her back. In my almost 60 years of living, I've never seen anything like it.
I do not recommend this dental, they are not professional on anything. They don’t reach out a day or two before your appointment to let you know. They canceled my appointment half an hour before my actual appointment. There isn’t any staff or assistants. They won’t even answer the calls, why have a phone number if they won’t answer or even return the call. I called for days to know about my upcoming appointment and never answered my phone calls or returned them.
Alivio Dental, you are horrible!! I have made three appointments for my 5 year old who has a huge cavity. His insurance gave me a list of dentists, all of whom are at least an hour away. So the VNA referred me to Alivio Dental on Galena here in Aurora, 5 minutes from my house. The first time, we show up and the dentist wasn’t working that day, they didn’t have his appointment in the system, let alone his name or insurance information! The girl at the front desk says maybe I made the appointment for the Downer’s Grove location. I picked up their business card that was right next to me at the counter and check that it is the number in my call registry and show her. She says she’s sorry but she doesn’t know what happened. So I gave them his insurance card and filled out all the paperwork. I made the second appointment for St. Patrick’s Day. Again, we show up and they tell us that the dentist isn’t in so we have to reschedule. I was beyond frustrated at their unprofessional attitude but, again ... 5 minutes from our house and takes his insurance. So I rescheduled for today. Just over an hour ago, we show up for my sons appointment ... the door says “open” but the lights are off and the door is locked!!! What the hell, Alivio?! After I return home and calm down a smidge, I look up that they are supposed to be open until 4 pm on Saturdays, so I call. The gentleman who answered (why are you even answering when your building is closed down) says that maybe I made the appointment with the Downers Grove location... I explain that I don’t even have their phone number and no, I live off Galena so naturally I made the appointment with the office on Galena! I tell him that I received a reminder yesterday from the office, he says they don’t do reminders anymore. He says my son isn’t even in the system... unprofessional is an understatement.
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