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Welcome to Walden Dental … Your “home” for custom, cost-effective, and convenient care

Congratulations on making a good investment in your smile and your health! As true partners in your oral health journey, Walden Dental is here for you in Austin at every step with the highest-quality care. We understand that exceptional care and quality dentistry should not be exclusively reserved for the fortunate few with considerable means and resources. That’s why we offer many payment options and affordable financing through CareCredit®, ensuring that everyone can afford a healthy smile they are proud to show off at every turn! 

Additionally, our team is led by a passionate dentist, Dr. David Frank. A veteran of the Air Force and a native of New York, Dr. Frank is also an enthusiastic and responsible community steward who relocated to Central Texas after it made a positive impression on him during his military service!

Serving our neighbors by supporting their best smiles

Dr. Frank is privileged to provide complete dental care for the whole family, from children to seniors, at every stage of life. With a wide range of services and capabilities under one roof, we rarely have to refer our patients to specialists’ offices. At some point, everyone will benefit from at least some of the following services, ensuring that all your dental needs can be met in one place:

  • General dentistry – We take an uncommon approach to many common dental procedures. For instance, during regular exams and cleanings, our patients benefit from low-radiation, highly precise, and comfortable digital imaging and other diagnostic technologies.
  • Cosmetic dentistry—Dr. Frank has developed considerable expertise in cosmetic procedures, including Zoom! in-office whitening and porcelain dental veneers that can even be made “same-day” while you wait, thanks to our advanced on-site software and equipment.
  • Restorative dentistry – We can also design, fabricate, and place porcelain dental crowns same-day, in one appointment, too. Additionally, Dr. Frank provides complete implants care, including placement of the implant itself.

These capabilities set us apart. However, we have not lost the “human touch.” We see you as more than a set of teeth and gums. Our team at Walden Dental strives to get to know you and your needs, preferences, and goals. This personalized approach allows us to recommend treatment or service options that best suit you, helping to restore or sustain your healthiest, most attractive smile. We are also upfront, transparent, and accessible at every step in this journey. To experience what distinguishes us from other dentists in Austin, TX, and beyond, schedule your visit today. Our team can be reached at (512) 883-8450.

Mother’s Day Giveaway - Nominate a Deserving Mom!

Mother’s Day Giveaway - Nominate a Deserving Mom!

At Walden Dental, we know how much moms do for everyone else—so this Mother’s Day, we’re giving back. We’re inviting you to nominate your mothers to receive free dental care from Dr. David Frank and our team!

To enter, just send us a short video telling us why your mom deserves this gift. Whether it’s a well-earned smile makeover or essential dental treatment, we’re here to celebrate her in the best way we know how—with care, comfort, and confidence.

Submit your video by MAY 1st to our office facebook page

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Case Study

Dr. David Frank was featured on the Just the News No Noise program presented by John Solomon and Amanda Head

Dr. David Frank was featured on the Just the News No Noise program
Fluoride in Drinking Water, Is It Time to Stop Using It?’ was the theme of the Just the News No Noise program, which featured Dr. David Frank. In this segment, Dr. Frank explained why fluoride was added to drinking water in the 1940s, why it’s not necessary anymore, and whether too much fluoride could do more harm than good. Watch the program presented by John Solomon and Amanda Head.

Host: Welcome back to the final segment of the show. I’m really glad that we are going to end the show tonight with this conversation. It is a controversial topic, the topic of fluoride in drinking water because the MAHA movement has put this front and center, so should it be removed from our drinking water? Like it has in a lot of other European countries. So joining us now to talk about that is Texas-based dentist, Dr. Dave Frank. Dr. Frank, thanks so much for being here. 

Dr. Frank: Good evening. Thanks so much for having me. It’s a pleasure to be on this evening. 

Host: Likewise. And I think five years ago I wouldn’t have even considered the issue of fluoride in water controversial. I was fine with it being in my water. I was fine with it being in my toothpaste. And then I learned that there were some issues surrounding kids’ IQs and possibly endocrine disruption. Tell us about it. 

Dr. Frank: Sure. Fluoride has been a great thing for a very long time, especially here in America. Fluoride has been out from a public health initiative since the end of World War II, and really the intention of fluoride was to be able to give those underserved communities, communities that just were on well water that had really no access to other types of dental health, dental preventive health on giving kids more specifically a fighting chance. As a tooth develops and grows, we’re looking at mineralization processes, calcification processes, and sadly, as a small child, our teeth are much softer, and it takes time for them to harden up. So the public health initiative of putting fluoride in our drinking water was great. It was a really smart plan. But as the decades have evolved over the years, fluoride is really in a whole lot of other products just besides our drinking water, especially if you’re seeing your dentist routinely. 

Not only are we getting fluoride in toothpaste, we can get prescription fluoride toothpaste, we can have fluoride in rinses. Believe it or not, some of the soft drinks that we drink daily have fluoride in it because of the water source of where the soft drink companies are getting their water from. So the concern comes down to play of how much of fluoride do we need, and more importantly, could there be too much fluoride? And right now in America, we’re really at a safer level of water fluoridation being at about 0.75, excuse me here, milligrams per liter. The concern is once we’re getting above 1.5 milligrams per liter, as other countries that have done research on this, like China and Mexico and Brazil, we’re finding out there may be some cognitive impairment, cognitive defects, and really kind of a lowering of a child’s IQ if there’s too much fluoride consumed. 

So where this comes to impact for America is about how do we know how much we’re getting, and are we having too much? I don’t think it’s a crisis if you’re having some occasional tap water from time to time, but if you’re having all of these other ancillary types of fluoride with prescription fluoride toothpastes, fluoride mouth rinses, nursery water, fluoride tablets, drinking out of tap water, you may start to be getting into higher doses and levels. And I think that’s just our general concern right now in America is finding out where these public health policies still today as important as their good intentions from back in the late 1940s. 

Host 2: Really well explained, sir, two things have happened. Obviously Europe is on a different path than us right now. They’re already on the reversal path. And then recently a federal judge ruled in America that the EPA has got to get involved and start looking at whether the risk referee both of those risks because they seem to be the two biggest events in this debate recently. 

Dr. Frank: Right. And I really think we need to look at, from fluoride, what are we expecting to achieve out of this? I think as opposed to having these initiatives of how much fluoride we’re having in our water sources and whether or not we need to be cutting that down, I do think we need to be mindful of that. We need to get to the bigger source of what’s happening in our American diet. It’s as if we’re using these platforms and using bureaucracy to dictate how much fluoride we need as opposed to let’s avoid the amount of processed foods, let’s avoid the amount of simple sugars. Let’s avoid the amount of acidity that’s already in our American diet so that we’re not using fluoride as a crux. Almost to say that fluoride could be considered an ozempic for dieting. No, it’s about having the right food consumption. It’s about lowering your sugar content so we don’t have to be worried about cavities because the road to hell is often paved with good intentions. 

Host 2: That’s very true.

Host 1: Indeed. And that’s pretty much the path to Washington as well. Before we let you go, I want to ask you if we do get rid of fluoride in water, it’s my understanding that using fluoride topically is better anyway, so if we get rid of the fluoride in the water, is using it in toothpaste good enough? 

Dr. Frank: I think so, absolutely. I don’t think—there was a time before fluoride existed in the water and we all weren’t dying of major dental abscesses and we all weren’t walking around as dental cripples. The main thing that has really made dentistry and our problems with our oral health has been impacted by our sugar consumption, ease off on the sugars, and you’re going to find a whole host of benefits to include a much healthier mouth. 

Host: Absolutely. 

Dr. Frank: Having a toothbrush topically placed with some fluoride and floss and avoiding sugar consumption is going to put you on a right path no matter how much fluoride is in our public water supply.

Host: Winning combination. Dr. Dave Frank, thank you so much for being here, sir. Thanks for your wisdom on all of that. And that’s going to do it for us tonight. We’ll be back here tomorrow night.


Walden Dental & Amplify Austin

Dr. Frank reached out to local Austin officials, but never heard back.
Watch the video to see the whole story.

Walden Dental & Amplify Austin
Dr. David Frank was extremely disappointed with Austin City Council members for not supporting Walden Dental’s community-based initiative for Amplify Austin Day. However, Capital Area Dental Foundation has come forward to support them and they are looking forward to helping many others like Chris, who is also featured in this video alongside Dr. Frank and former Council member Mackenzie Kelly.

Dr. David Frank: Mayor Watson, Councilwoman Lane, with Amplify Austin Day coming up next month, I would love to be able to showcase a great smile makeover or some degree of dentistry of our choosing for a deserving district manager. Unfortunately, Mayor Watson did not respond. More importantly, Councilwoman Crystal Lane never responded.

Mackenzie Kelly: I’m former Austin City Council Member Mackenzie Kelly and I represented District Six for the last six years, and I’m here at Walden Dental with Dr. David Frank and I just want to say he’s doing great work in the community and I believe it’s an absolute travesty that he hasn’t gotten any support from our current Austin City Council.

Chris: When I was a pretty broken spirit and didn’t see any way out, a man took one look at me. After one workout, he told me, “The smile doesn’t match the man, and I won’t stand for it”. He’s right next to me, and thank you for everything you’ve done for me.

Dr. Frank: You are so welcome. You deserved, well deserved.

Chris: Because of that, it’s not that I owed, I never got a phone call that ‘you owe me now that I’ve given you this’. I didn’t hear a thing about that in fact. But I was able to work in jobs I never dreamed of, a future I didn’t believe was going to happen again and is now, far (excuse me) it’s far surpassed my wildest dreams.

Dr. Frank: People have asked us, “Why did we decide to do it? What was the impetus?” and back then, back in 2020 and 2021, I was sick and tired of hearing that we had a problem in Austin but nobody was willing to do anything about it. And that’s why Walden Dental is so successful. We don’t look for anyone else to help us out. We look for the road to get there and then we execute. And we are disheartened and we are actually saddened when we were trying to give our elected officials a layup to be a part of something, and unfortunately, they just gave us a cold shoulder. But enough is enough, and the most important part is Chris is here to show us that it’s not a one-and-done deal, it’s relationship-building that matters most. And he’s living proof of what you can do with this new regained life confidence and ability to make a real man of himself.

But a silver lining and a happy ending awaits. Walden Dental has been able to partner with Capital Area Dental Foundation to be able to offer community-based care, not only for Amplify Austin but also multiple days a year. God bless and God bless America!


Lack of support from officials, no deterrent to Walden Dental’s Amplify Austin Day initiative

In this radio show, Dr. David Frank discusses how he reached out to local Austin officials to get their support for Walden Dental’s community initiative for Amplify Austin Day. He never heard back from them and was sorely disappointed about the lack of response. However, he and Walden Dental are still going ahead with their projects in collaboration with the Capital Area Dental Foundation. Watch the video for the full story.

Voice 1: A lot of people are taking part in the Amplify Austin Day. It’s the biggest giving event in central Texas, happening today and tomorrow. And well, you can actually go to their website,.amplifyatx.org/ and you can actually select the non-profit you would like to donate to. It’s kind of neat. You could discover and then donate. They're on their websites, and they have 10 more hours left on the clock. And amplifyatx.org/ is the website. They've been around for a long time.

Voice 2: And if I'm not mistaken, I think it's seven central Texas counties - Travis, Hayes, Williamson, Caldwell, Bastrop, Blanco, and Burnett. I think there's seven there. So there's a big wide swath of groups that get some help on Amplify Austin.

Voice 1: Well, the Amplify Fund, according to their website, is a great solution to share the love across every non-profit, make the gift directly to an entire cause and in the categories, or you can make a contribution to Amplify Austin and they'll distribute it out based on what's best. And amplifyatx.org/ is their website. So there you go.

David Frank, Dr. David Frank, on line one there. Good morning!

Dr. David Frank: Hello. Good morning, gentlemen. And Happy Ash Wednesday here!

And Happy Amplify Austin! Thanks so much for taking the call here. I mean, what a great thing that the city does and Walden Dental was really trying to do something really fun with Amplify Austin. We have had coverage for patients in need in the past, and now we were going to set up a really nice project for someone in need in District Six because we live in District Six, the office is in District Six, and it was really going to be exciting to set up, really kind of a pro bono care for a deserving district constituent. So we reached out to Mayor Watson, we reached out to Congress, our Councilwoman Lane here to see if they would like to be on board for helping us select a real deserving patient to really get a feel good win-win. We all know that giving money is great, but the more important thing is giving time. That's the thing where you're really stretching yourself, really showing how much you want to give back. Sadly though, the Mayor's office and our Councilwoman Lane never decided that they wanted to respond. They couldn't give us any of their time.

Voice 1 or 2: Oh man! Why is that?

Dr. Frank: It's really kind of sad.

Voice 1/2: Why is that?

Dr. Frank: I don't know.

Voice 1/2: Wow, that's wild.

Dr. Frank: Honestly, we got the cold shoulder.

Voice 1/2: An opportunity to do something good.

Dr. Frank: I thought maybe they'll reach out.

Voice 1/2: Maybe so, maybe so.

Dr. Frank: And we had our past Councilwoman, Mackenzie Kelly come to show her support, and she was just as surprised as all of us. Why would these new city officials just not even want to give us a little bit of their attention or support? We're just trying to give them a layup, okay, “Would you like to participate in this”?

Voice 1/2 : Yeah, maybe they're too busy, maybe they're too busy working on other important things, that sort of thing.

Dr. Frank: We gave them six weeks' notice, so it's sad. But what we have done is we've worked with Capital Area Dental Foundation. They are a great fundraising crew. They do community dental day services. Walden Dental has decided in the last ditch effort here to at least donate to that cause. But I'm hoping maybe they'll reach out.

Voice 1/2: Yeah, absolutely.

Dr. Frank: I'm hoping maybe they can give us a little bit of an explanation here as far as why they wouldn't want to be more involved for their community and for these small businesses that want to help. So Walden Dental's going to be doing more. We're probably going to come up with a Mother's Day makeover here for some deserving District Six constituents. We're going to be putting stuff on our Facebook page and Instagram. So we'll be on the lookout for that in April and we'll set something nice up for Friday and Saturday.

Voice 1/2: How about that?

Dr. Frank: The Mother's Day weekend

Voice 1/2: Dr. David Frank putting smiles on people's faces and in his busy schedule trying to help the community. How about that? That's amazing.

Dr. Frank: I really appreciate that, guys. So hopefully, those mothers that are listening out there, we'll start putting something together, coming up with this on the fly.

Voice 1/2: What's the Facebook page? People may want to learn more about this and learn about you.

Dr. Frank: Yeah. It's Walden Dental Austin and they could even go to our website at waldendentaltx.com. Just like I used to say on the radio always, ‘Google Walden Dental’.

Voice 1/2: There you go. There you go. Dr. David Frank. Thank you so much for checking in. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

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As an experienced cosmetic dentist, Dr. Frank and his family moved to Central Texas to open his dental practice in Austin. He became quite fond of Texas during his service in the Air Force. Having grown up in the Northeast he loves Greater Austin’s climate (no snow!), culture, and wide-open space.

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