Hattie Willard, DDS, DMD

Dr. Hattie Willard is from a small town near Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from dental school with honors and commissioned into active duty military service as a Captain in the US Air Force in 2018. Dr. Willard completed a 1-year advanced dental residency at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. Through this program, she enhanced her skills in multiple specialty procedures including sedation dentistry, oral surgery, cosmetic dentistry, implants, endodontics, and orthodontics. She was assigned to Peterson Space Force Base in 2019 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. There, she treated the dental concerns of other military members to make sure they were deployment-ready and she led several military operational programs. After 5 years of active-duty service, she separated from the Air Force and rejoined life as a civilian dentist. However, her mission of always putting service before self to address patient's needs has not changed. Dr.