Sun Dental

I’ve been here twice for a cleaning and for x-​rays. They were great and professional.

Love this dental office! I have always been afraid of the dentist but this place was fantastic. The dentist made me comfortable and explained everything that he was doing. I don’t have a single complaint to make even after having 2 root canals done.

There is no Dr. Gu in that office btw, Qian

This place is shady because they are not upfront about costs before the treatment.
Also, the assistant people and the dentist keep gossiping in Chinese as they’re working on your teeth… which made me feel like they weren’t really paying attention to the job. They are also impatient about answering your questions, after the procedure is done, they shuffle you out. Overall a bad dental establishment… I switched dentists.

I appreciated that the dentist was nice and honest — when I was at another practice that claimed I needed six of my teeth crowned, Sun Dental was one of the places I went for additional evaluation. I told him what the first dentist had said, and he looked at the x-​rays incredulously and said there was no decay that he could see. He even told me that extent of tooth decay is often genetic, which really helped me get a handle on how I approached my dental health. (Goodbye to denial, hello to Sonicare and being proactive!)
However, the other staff members are not so nice. You get the feeling that they resent having to ya know, do dental work as part of their workday. They’re the reason I felt uncomfortable enough to change dentists. Which is unfortunate because it’s hard finding an honest dentist!

I hate crooked dentist who only wants to scare you and take your money. Luckily I found Sun Dental. The dentist is honest and won’t exaggerate things. And Dr. Gu is not intimidating at all.
I used to go to a dentist who wanted to charge me $ 3000 for gum treatment, which Sun Dental and another dentist confirmed is unnecessary. I had the needed treatment at Sun Dental for $ 250 only. And they will bill the insurance company mostly instead of trying to double dipping — to make money both from you and the insurance company.
The only disadvantage is that the office is old, so it is not looking nice. But they always remember to remind me of my appointment and is very easy to change appointment date as well.
So highly recommend this place if you don’t care about appearance that much.

To all Unilocalers,
When you eval dentists or any medical professionals, please do it with care. Don’t make up your personal criteria and presume that they are accurate. While I agree that service is important, to state, that just because you do not have pain, you have no dental problems, is not necessary true. Many patients have large cavities and would not know it until it is too late. There is no litmus tests. Dentistry by nature can be subjective. Dentists are human beings and they do the best that they can to give you an oral status. Part of the dental doctrine is to give patients autonomy which is to say you decide what to do with your mouth once informed. Let’s suppose that a dentist tells nothing is wrong and you end up needing more treatments than if you heed his advice in the first place. What would you say then? Deep cleaning when appropriately recommended can help you in the long run including prevention of advanced periodontitis which can lead to heart problems. While I am not disagree with your personal viewpoints as to your oral health, I would think that your comments may do some dis-​service to your fellow Unilocalers by your «litmus» tests. You may talk to some people who have not been to a dentist in years. Most would tell you that nothing is wrong with their oral health and that in itself a dis-​service to themselves. This does not help foster any trust (professional) between the dentist and patient. I hope that you are careful to comment on your experiences without encouraging «litmus tests» which may or may not be true.

Please don’t go to that place! you can if you like to wait for hours. I took my sister there to have fillings for her teeth, we show up in time at 4 waited for an hour they called my sister then she waited for like 40 min then finally the doctor came and did the filling for her which took like 30 something minute. The wait time is crazy! and there were only 1 doctor there that day, what kind of service is this, never going back again

Don’t come here. The dentist is unprofessional. I came in for teeth cleaning and i told the dentist that i wanted the service that my health insurance provided. He told me I needed «deep cleaning» and I asked him if that was covered under my insurance and he said yes. When I was finished the dental assistant came in and taught me how to floss and she said i wasn’t suppose to floss inbetween my gums O_​o? When I walk up to the counter the receptionist said I owed a fee of $ 50 for deep cleaning. What the??? Please save the hassle and find another dentist.

I have to say the main dentist here Dr. Kor is a great doctor and he really listen and care for your dental health. I used to work for this place so I know. The front staff here used to be really professional and good. They set up schedule well and the wait are reasonable. Since the office manager Grace passed away (very well respected and a lot of customers love her) now the office operation is crap. Sun Dental has a lot of old customers always come back to the place. The price, the wait, the service, and the overall quality is great there, now I can’t say. All I hear is a lot of complains now.

The nurse at the front desk had on a baby tee, jeans, and flip flops… totally unprofessional. The place looks really unsanitary. The nurses were talking crap behind my back in Chinese (they didn’t know I speak the same language). After waiting for an hour and 20 mins, the dentist came in and literally spent less than 10 minutes cleaning my teeth. I would never go back.

Highly recommendable. I trust the honesty and quality of this dentist. (2007).
Litmus tests of a crook dentist are: (1) always suggest deep cleaning, (2) trap into a chain of expensive treatments (eg, you have bad gum so you need to deep clean, full wash; without these we cannot perform gum treatment), (3) take advantage of your confess (eg, if I confess that my mold has a cavity, dentist says you need a new crown), (4) their suggested treatment betrays your instinct (eg, I know my teeth are not bad; but dentist suggests so many treatment). These tests are what I learned from 3 bad dentists in Pasadena/​San Gabriel before I came to this dentist.
This dentist passed all the above tests. Over 2 yrs with this dentist I had gum treatment, several regular cleaning, widsom tooth removal (because it gave me pain), and receded gum treatment. They recommended that I needed a new filling or crown but told me that it was not urgent (I never met a dentist who said I could do later). I told them all the potential problems with my teeth — they did not take advantage of the information but made good use of it in taking care of my teeth. Their prices are very reasonable. Even the regular cleaning is done by a dentist (not by the assistant (I don’t know whether this is a big plus)).
I moved to North Cal for a new job: my new dentist suggested 5 – 6 treatments costing $ 3000!!, including a root canal (based only on an unconvincing Xray even if that tooth does not differ from others), two additional crowns, and a night guard (I told him I don’t grind teeth at night). I was thinking to fly to LA to go to Sun Dental.