Fair questions, straight answers.

I’m Diana McQuirter, a University of Michigan–trained dentist with over a decade chairside, born and raised in Detroit. I’m the founder of Molar Town, an independent AI-native dental practice opening in Novi in Spring 2027, and the builder of DentalDNA, a patient-facing tool that translates clinician-approved dental findings into plain language. I also make original AI music as Molar Town Radio, because serious work doesn’t have to be joyless.

Yes. BS and DDS from the University of Michigan, more than ten years of general dentistry chairside, and a research background in oral-cancer science from my undergraduate years. The technology work grows directly out of clinical practice — not the other way around.

It’s my public lab notebook. One place where the clinical work (Molar Town), the product work (DentalDNA), and the creative work (Molar Town Universe) live together — shared in plain language, honestly labeled by stage, for anyone who cares about better tools for oral health.

Yes — both this site and molartown.com, every page. Hand-coded on one shared design system, no page builders or templates, and each page versioned like software with its own changelog. It’s Project 07 in the portfolio, and it’s the easiest claim on this site to verify: view the source.

One system, three layers. Molar Town is the physical practice and testbed. DentalDNA is the patient-understanding layer. The Molar Town Universe is the science-communication layer that makes the whole thing human. Each stands on its own, but they’re designed together.

Yes — right now. A complete sample report is published on this site: the one-paragraph visit summary, the tooth map, plain-language findings with timing, the glossary, and the provenance trail showing clinician approval on every line. It uses a fictional patient and is clearly labeled as a sample, but the format is the real product thesis. Read the sample report — it takes about five minutes.

It’s a translator. Your dentist’s findings — the x-rays, the measurements, the clinical shorthand — turned into plain language you can understand, remember, and carry between offices. Every explanation starts from information your dentist has already reviewed and approved. It never diagnoses on its own.

Not yet. It’s an early-stage prototype built deliberately by a dentist — not a released product, and not integrated with any platform. What exists today: a working interactive walkthrough (available to reviewers on request) and a published sample report you can read end to end right now. I’d rather show you the honest stage than oversell it.

It’s the point. A tool that can’t write to the clinical record can’t corrupt the clinical record. Read-only makes a pilot easy to say yes to, keeps every output auditable against its source, and earns trust the way people do — by being useful for a long time without asking for more access.

No. DentalDNA never diagnoses independently and never replaces clinical judgment. A clinician reviews and approves everything before a patient sees it. The AI does the homework — organizing, translating, explaining — and the human keeps the judgment.

Not yet — doors open Spring 2027 at 23890 Novi Road in Novi, Michigan. The buildout is underway now. If you want to be among the first patients, join the founding patient list at molartown.com. If you have a dental concern today, contact your current dentist; for emergencies, seek urgent care.

Molar Town is an independent practice — we never signed the network contracts that force shorter visits and volume schedules. Your benefits can still help: after every visit you get a complete coded superbill plus your imaging and notes, and as a courtesy we submit out-of-network claims whenever possible, so reimbursement comes straight back to you. The full, honest explanation is at molartown.com.

Appointments that are never rushed. Findings shown to you on screen and explained in plain English. Fees in writing before treatment. Your complete records delivered digitally after every visit — they’re your property. And the space itself is built for it: six identical, fully enclosed, soundproofed treatment suites inside a former bank building, each themed around a field of science, with the lighting, music, and temperature controlled by you. The full blueprint is here.

Read the DentalDNA sample report — it’s the fastest way to understand what I’m building and why. If you have five more, the homepage has six things you can open right now: the sample, both live sites, the practice blueprint, the music, and the build log.

One narrow question: is a read-only, clinician-reviewed DentalDNA pilot worth scoping around a modern Dentrix Ascend–based workflow? That’s it. No autonomous diagnosis, no write-back, nothing patient-facing without clinician approval, and no platform affiliation implied. A small ask on purpose — narrow things are easy to evaluate honestly.

No. DentalDNA and Molar Town are independent projects. References to those platforms describe planned ecosystem alignment and potential future conversations only — no affiliation, endorsement, or integration exists today, and any future pilot would require proper review, security evaluation, and a written agreement.

I work best in writing. Async, written communication is how I do my clearest thinking, so email is the right first channel — diana.mcquirter.dds@gmail.com. I don’t take speaking engagements or on-camera appearances.

Email diana.mcquirter.dds@gmail.com or use the contact page. Tell me who you are, what caught your attention, and what a good outcome looks like for you — I read everything and reply to anything serious.

My creative studio: original AI-assisted music across every genre — Motown, country, punk, EDM — turning dental science, AI, and everyday builder-life into songs people actually enjoy. It lives on YouTube and it’s the human side that keeps the serious work hopeful.

A family STEM music film inspired by NASA’s Artemis story — turning the mission to the Moon into music people can actually feel. It’s the science-communication lab’s flagship piece, and you can watch it on the homepage or the portfolio.

Because understanding is the whole mission, and joy is how understanding sticks. Carl Sagan proved you can be rigorous and wonder-struck at the same time. The music isn’t separate from the technical work — it’s how the technical work becomes human.