Born on a balmy spring day in Louisville, KY, Joel Veitschegger was raised in Bowling Green, KY and graduated from Western Kentucky University with a BA in Music and in Religious Studies. During his summers, he was a counselor at academic camps for middle school and high school-aged kids and taught guitar lessons to students of the same ages year-round. After completing his pre-dental requirements and getting married, Joel and his wife, Katherine, moved to Lexington, KY where he earned a D.M.D. from the University of Kentucky. After his graduation in 2010, they moved to rural Northern Maine and lived for three years, where he worked at a private practice as well as a MaineCare children’s clinic. In 2013, they moved to Nashville, TN to be close to family and start one of their own. While working in a group practice and volunteering in a local clinic, Joel and Katherine had a son, Walker West. In 2018, Joel completed a two-year pediatric dentistry residency at NYU-Langone Hospitals and earned his ABPD Board Certification in 2019.

Dr. Joel enjoys exercising and collecting record albums and listens to them with his son and his Norwich Terrier, Onus. They are all excited to live and work in the Middle Tennessee area and about their new Norwich Terrier, Mr. Henry Pickles.