Dr. Brent Gardner, DDS

Dr. Gardner is an Arizona native who went to dental school at The Ohio State University and came back home to take care of his neighbors. Now in his 12th year of practice. Dr. Gardner is the third dentist to own this longstanding practice, following Dr. Boyd and Dr. Rick, and he takes the responsibility of that continuity seriously.

His approach is direct and conservative. If a tooth can be saved, he'll try to save it. He uses silver diamine fluoride and tooth-saving techniques before reaching for the drill, and he'll tell you straight whether something needs treatment now or whether it can be watched. Patients who've been overtreated elsewhere often find their way to him through word of mouth — and stay.

What Dr. Gardner loves most about the work is the procedural side: root canals, buildups, crowns, and bridges. The kind of work that takes a tooth that's hurting and gets it back to functional. Outside the office, he's a husband and father raising his family in the same community his patients live in.

Behind every appointment at Winslow Dental is a team that's been doing this work for a long time, in this town, with these patients. Most of our team members have been here for years — some came up through other parts of healthcare or customer service (cardiology, ER medicine, banking) before finding their way to dentistry, and that range shows up in how they handle a busy front desk, an anxious patient, or a complicated insurance question. They know what they're doing, they take real ownership of the work, and they treat the people who walk through our door like neighbors — because in Winslow, they usually are.

What patients tell us most often is that this team listens. The assistants explain what's about to happen before it happens, the front desk knows your name when you call, and the financial conversation happens before treatment starts — not after the bill arrives. There's no fakesies here. What you see is what you get.

When you come in, you'll meet them all — and you'll start to know them by name within a couple of visits. That's how we like it.