Dr. Jeremy Scholzen is a Hurricane native who came back to Southern Utah after dental school and opened Children’s Dental in 2007. Dr. Brandon Spencer joined as a partner in 2013. Today the practice has two clinics — one in St. George, one in Cedar City — and explicitly identifies as family and locally owned, language that pediatric practices acquired by dental services organizations almost never keep.
Pediatric dentistry has different bones than general dentistry
A pediatric clinic is a different building. Open-bay treatment areas instead of private operatories, low pediatric chairs and child-height counters, behavior-management training built into the staff, sedation capability for the kids who need it, and a communication model that has to satisfy both the patient and the parent in real time. Children’s Dental is set up as a true pediatric practice rather than a general office that takes children on the side.
Two cities, one model
The Cedar City office is the operationally interesting half of the footprint. Iron County has historically been thin on pediatric specialty care — most Cedar City families with a kid who needed sedation or a behavioral-management referral would drive to St. George or even up to the Wasatch Front. Children’s Dental’s Cedar City clinic closed that gap. The two-location model lets the practice serve both the Washington County and Iron County pediatric populations under shared ownership and a shared chart system.
Clean candidate disclosure
Both partners publicly named with credentials, founding year published, partner-join year published, explicit “family and locally owned” language on the practice site, web presence consistent across external listings — the candidate disclosure here is among the strongest in the dental segment of this batch.
Why this matters for the 435
A pediatric practice with offices in both Washington County and Iron County and clean independent ownership is exactly the kind of profile a register covering the whole 435 should anchor on. The geographic reach matches the register’s own coverage ambition, and the disclosure floor is well above the segment baseline.