Dr. Will Brown, DDS serves as a dentist at Dove Creek Integrated Healthcare and Cortez Integrated Healthcare.
Dr. Will Brown, DDS
About Dr. Will Brown, DDS
Building trust in a small rural community takes time, and meaningful relationships are at the heart of that work. Patients who have worked with Dr. Will Brown trust him and rely on his care, making him their preferred healthcare provider He serves as a dentist with Axis Integrated Healthcare, caring for patients in Dove Creek and now in Cortez as well.
“I think one of the greatest parts about being a dentist, and this job, is just being able to have conversations with people,” he said.
Brown and his wife came to Southwest Colorado from Denver, seeking a less crowded area with access to the outdoors, particularly as they observed the state’s capital booming in population. Brown was also always interested in public health, and when the Axis general dentistry position opened up, he jumped.
A Calling to Dentistry
Brown is originally from the Denver metro area. He wanted to pursue medicine of some sort, but wasn’t sure about the specialty.
“I was fortunate to have some really good mentors,” he said. “Parents of friends who are dentists, and let me come in and showed me what they were doing.”
He was especially attracted to the relationship aspect of dentistry.
“The relationship they had with their patients was what really drew me in, because it was a continuous, progressing relationship where they got to check in, in most cases every six months, and knew about each other’s kids, and where they were in school and what they were doing with their lives,” Brown said. “So I think the relationships were what really drew me in.”
Brown also came to appreciate the creative and hands-on nature of dentistry.
“It’s a different approach to medicine,” he said.
He completed dental school at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Following graduation, Brown worked in the town of LaSalle, just south of Greeley, CO, for about one and a half years.
Brown and his family now live in Cortez. When he’s not working, he enjoys camping, fishing, and hiking with his wife and two children.