It started with a conversation in Boston.
Linzi and I grew up in the same hometown, but we did not meet until we had both traveled to Harvard — I to study dentistry, she to graduate school.
One evening, in a quiet corner of the medical school library, the conversation turned to the future. She asked a question that was not about classes or careers.
What kind of life do you want ten years from now?
Dental school trains you to diagnose and to treat. It does not often ask you to imagine the life around that work. I thought for a moment, then said what I had been carrying quietly. I wanted to help people without rushing them. I wanted the freedom to practice with intention. And, for the first time out loud, I said I wanted to build a dental practice of my own — not just a clinic, but a place built around values.
That conversation did not produce a floor plan or a name. It produced a direction. The idea from that night never left. What changed, over the years that followed, was how clearly I could see what the practice would have to protect.
The idea became clearer through experience.
Harvard School of Dental Medicine taught Dr. Wei to see the mouth as part of the body — to consider a patient’s health, history, and circumstances alongside the tooth in front of him. A residency at UCLA added the clinical range that would later let much of that care stay in one practice. That way of looking at dentistry stayed with him: a recommendation has to make sense in the mouth and in the rest of a patient’s life.
Then came years of working in private practices. Each setting taught him something, and not only clinically. He saw how much the shape of a schedule affects the quality of a conversation. How differently the same plan can land depending on how it is explained. How easily continuity is lost when a patient sees a different dentist each visit.
Those years did not give him a list of things to reject. They gave him a clearer picture of what to protect.
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Time to understand
Appointments should leave room for questions, and for the option to wait.
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Continuity
The same dentist stays responsible for the care, from the first exam through the work itself.
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Thoughtful decisions
A recommendation has to make sense clinically and in the rest of a patient’s life.
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Technology with a purpose
Equipment earns its place when it makes care clearer or more precise — not when it exists for appearance.
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Comprehensive, not automatic
Looking closely does not mean treating everything. It means knowing the difference.
Eventually, the idea became a decision.
Years later, as their family grew, the conversation from the library returned. This time it was not a someday idea. They had the training, a shared picture of the practice they wanted, and a life they were already building together.
They stopped waiting for the right moment to appear and began designing the practice from the ground up — the schedule, the rooms, the way a visit would feel, and the standard they would want for someone they love. They knew what they were trying to protect: continuity, time, and care they would trust with their own family.
This would be their first major project together.
A practice designed before it was named.
Building from the ground up
Sunstone was planned as a single-dentist practice, then built around that decision. What a visit would feel like came first. The rooms, the flow of an appointment, and the equipment followed from that.
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Planning
Time for conversation was designed into the schedule first.
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Construction
The office was built around that plan.
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Clinical spaces
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Opening
Opening October 15, 2026.
Our goal
Our goal is not to become the biggest dental practice. We want to become the kind of practice people recommend to someone they love.
What we are building toward
The practice that came out of that conversation is meant to feel personal, thoughtful, and consistent. Clinically comprehensive, without becoming impersonal. Modern, when the technology actually serves the care. Built around the long-term trust that only comes from seeing the same dentist, and being given the time to understand what is being recommended.
When you walk through the doors, the difference we hope you notice is not a slogan. It is the intention behind the visit — enough time, a clear explanation, and a dentist who will still be the one treating you next time.
We are not trying to become the largest practice in the area. We are trying to become the kind of place you would send someone you love — and the kind of place we would want to walk into ourselves.
Sunstone Dental is still at the beginning of its story. We hope the most meaningful part will be the relationships built here over the years ahead.
Come experience Sunstone for yourself.
Meet the dentist, see the practice, and ask whatever you want to ask.