Hammer and Van Zant Family Dentistry

Specialties

Our staff and dentists are kind, caring, gentle professionals providing excellent care but in a lower pressure setting than some practices these days. We are not into high pressure marketing and sales tactics and we do not have daily and monthly sales quotas or production quantity targets for our staff to meet. We genuinely strive to provide the best possible quality dental care for all of our patients and their families, tailored to fit their needs and desires, not some month end office production goal. If you cannot believe the amount and cost of dental treatment that your dentist has told you that you need, please come and see us for a second opinion.

History

Established in 1980.

We have been serving the Elizabethtown — Hardin County Kentucky area since 1980. We are proud to be a locally owned and operated dental office. We have worked hard to stay up to today’s standards of great dental care, and to keep our office very up to date by offering today’s safer digital X-​rays, E4D One Day Ceramic Crowns (not old style metal crowns), non-​surgical periodontal treatment, laser dentistry, Tulsa endodontics, and mini dental implants as well as conventional dental implant restorations.

The Elizabethtown — Hardin County area has grown rapidly in recent years. Many residents new to our area have come from larger cities and dental offices that are very up to date. We have strived to keep up to date, but unlike the large corporate dental chain offices, we do not train our staff to use high pressure sales methods and expect them to meet monthly sales quotas. We value small town friendliness and caring about our patients, and what they want and need, not us.

Meet the Business Owner

Brian H.

Business Owner

Dr. Brian C. Hammer is our founding father. He grew up in the Louisville area, spending a lot office his time in the Hardin, Ohio, and Grayson County area where much of his family was from. He graduated from Jeffersonville High School and completed his undergraduate college education at Indiana University Southeast on the north side of the Louisville area. He graduated in 1980 with his DMD degree from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry and began his practice later that fall in Radcliff. In 1998, he moved his practice to its current location on Ring Road in Elizabethtown. He and his wife Jill reside in Elizabethtown, and their two grown children live nearby in the Louisville area. Says Dr. Hammer, «a lot has changed over the 30 years since I started this practice, and there are so many exciting changes ahead in the field of dentistry. What a truly wonderful time this is, both for dental patients and for everyone working in the field of dentistry!»