Columbia Dental: Dai Bing DDS

483 Middle Turnpike W # 309, Manchester, CT 06040

For this, I return to a day in my childhood: I was a 9-year-old with a horrendous tooth pain on a weekend; that meant there was no available dentist, so no cure. I held my moms hand and we went throughout the neighborhood, in my home country of Iran, and knocked on every dental office door. At every single door, we waited and waited, but there was no answer. I tried to stop my tears because, even as a 9-year-old boy, I felt something heavy in my moms heart that transcended my own tooth ache. Today, as a father, I understand that distressing pain was love, seeing your child in desperation because what should be an essential service, dentistry, was clearly not. As a mother she did not give up, and toward the end of the day, she found a dentist who relieved our pain mine physical, hers emotional.

After the 1979 revolution that disparaged my country, I moved to Greece.However, I did not have the means to achieve my childhood dream there, even as licensed dentist. To achieve it, I moved to the United States, this land of opportunity, in 1990 following the guidance of my renowned professor in Basic Sciences, Anthony Trakatelis. After five arduous years, I graduated from dental school a second time, from Columbia University. While becoming a dentist twice in my life, learning two languages (Greek and English), and being a stranger almost everywhere I go, I have never forgotten my moms distress the very reason I have come this far. I followed my dream to Greece and the United States, adopting my ethos from Paulo Coelhos quote: When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. This is how I went on to become a dentist with the fundamental belief anyone can achieve anything, as long as they try hard enough.

In 1998, I moved from New York to Connecticut and started working at a dental practice. While there, I gave the owner an impossible idea of staying open on weekends, but he thought that it would be impractical, stating it would be too hard to find staff willing to work on weekends. After a while, I opened my own practice that proved him all too wrong. It was 700 square feet and open seven days a week, with late hours. It is the same model I follow today, twenty years later.

Today, Columbia Dental has sixteen offices throughout Connecticut, from New Milford to New London, and since 2000 we have treated more than 200,000 patients. I even followed this model throughout the pandemic when ER rooms were full of dental emergencies, always trying to give back to the community. The story of Columbia Dental began when I was a 9-year-old child with intolerable tooth pain, holding my mothers loving hand. I directed my passion with reason, and am now privileged of owning and operating Connecticuts only private dental practice that offers all specialties seven days a week, to all ages.

I am incredibly proud to see what I do as providing to my community, specifically to all parents who must not suffer finding their child an open dental practice every day with late hours and on weekends. This is my story Columbia Dentals story.

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Rating 1.7 out of 5 based on 3 reviews

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Ancestor Returns
3 years ago
I was in pain and when the doctor came in his only question was if I had seen another dentist and didn't care about how much pain I was in I would not recommend Columbia dental to no one. And a visiting doctor was a racist and should be fired.


Amy Jackson
3 years ago
It's absolutely a lie that they work on you if it's a emergency I went twice IN PAIN!!! and all there beeeps did was tell me what's wrong and sent me home after I was fighting for my teeth to be fixed. Obviously they don't understand I CANT EAT ON EITHER SIDE!!! ABSOLUTELY SUCKS HERE!!!!!. New London Columbia dental is much better then their butts!!! I suggest people to NOT go here!!! But to only go to thy one in new London ct!!


Ancestor Returns
4 years ago
I was in pain and when the doctor came in his only question was if I had seen another dentist and didn't care about how much pain I was in I would not recommend Columbia dental to no one. And a visiting doctor was a racist and should be fired.


Amy Jackson
4 years ago
It's absolutely a lie that they work on you if it's a emergency I went twice IN PAIN!!! and all there beeeps did was tell me what's wrong and sent me home after I was fighting for my teeth to be fixed. Obviously they don't understand I CANT EAT ON EITHER SIDE!!! ABSOLUTELY SUCKS HERE!!!!!. New London Columbia dental is much better then their butts!!! I suggest people to NOT go here!!! But to only go to thy one in new London ct!!


D D
4 years ago
I would never go back to this place. Uconn Dental waited 2weeks for an email of my x-rays. And that set me back another 2weeks to get a procedure done to get a knee replacement. After i drove from Bloomfield Ct. to Manchester and signed a release form that theynever sent after going there 2weeks for my appointment and it was a waste of time for me and Uconn Dental. I'm glad i have choices & colombia dental will never see me again!!!!


D D
5 years ago
I would never go back to this place. Uconn Dental waited 2weeks for an email of my x-rays. And that set me back another 2weeks to get a procedure done to get a knee replacement. After i drove from Bloomfield Ct. to Manchester and signed a release form that theynever sent after going there 2weeks for my appointment and it was a waste of time for me and Uconn Dental. I'm glad i have choices & colombia dental will never see me again!!!!


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