About Our Practice

William Bryan Denman was a Gonzales original. Born 1915 in Gonzales County, he attended Gonzales High School, graduating in 1934, before earning his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M College in 1938 and his Doctor of Dental Surgery from Baylor University College of Dentistry in 1941. He married Ruth Kokernot in Gonzales in June 1941, practiced briefly in Dallas, and then did what so many people raised in small Texas towns eventually do — he came home.

In 1942, Dr. Denman returned to Gonzales and established his dental practice. Shortly after, his country called. Dr. Denman joined the United States Army Air Corps 376th Bomb Group and served in World War II in the Middle East Theatre, earning twelve battle stars as a Captain before returning to Gonzales and to the practice that would define the next half century of his life.

Dr. Denman practiced dentistry in Gonzales for nearly fifty years. During that time he became far more than a dentist — he became a cornerstone of the community he loved. He was a founding member of the Gonzales County hospital district, a co-founder of the Gonzales County Health Foundation, a Rotary Club president, a longtime Mason, and the recipient of the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year Award in 1977. In 1987, the Texas Academy of General Dentistry named him Dentist of the Year. In 2004, Gonzales Healthcare Systems dedicated the street in front of Memorial Hospital in his name.

“We've reached the top shelf. I feel like the old guard's mission has been completed.”— Dr. William Denman, DDS (The Gonzales Inquirer, 2004)

When Dr. Denman retired, he entrusted his practice — his patients, his building, his legacy — to a young dentist who had recently moved to Gonzales and shared his values. Her name was Dr. Gloria Haug.

Dr. Gloria Vlasak Haug graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio with her Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1980 — Magna Cum Laude from Texas Lutheran University beforehand, and salutatorian of her high school class before that. She came to Gonzales in 1980, joined Dr. Denman's practice, and never left.

In 1989, Dr. Haug purchased Dr. Denman's practice and became its owner. She also became, in that moment, the steward of something much larger than a dental office — the keeper of relationships that Dr. Denman had spent decades building. She has honored that trust every day since.

Over the past 45 years, Dr. Haug has become to Gonzales what Dr. Denman was before her — not just a dentist, but a fixture. She has cared for patients who came to her as children and now bring their own children and grandchildren. She has watched families grow across generations. She knows this community not as a market but as a neighborhood — because it is the neighborhood where she has lived and worked since 1980.

In 1989, Dr. Haug was joined at the practice by her sister, Dr. Janice Vlasak Weinman. The two sisters — both graduates of Texas Lutheran and the University of Texas Health Science Center — practiced together in Gonzales for nearly two decades, building something that no single doctor could have built alone: a practice where patients didn't just have a dentist, they had a team of two people who knew them, cared about them, and between them could address virtually any dental need.

Dr. Weinman practiced in Gonzales from 1989 to 2008. In that time she developed the deep patient relationships and broad clinical expertise that would define the next chapter of her career. In July 2008, she founded Seguin Smiles — a state-of-the-art general and cosmetic dental practice in Seguin that she has built into one of the most respected practices in the region.

The sisters parted professionally, but the bond never weakened. And the practice in Gonzales — the one Dr. Denman built, the one Dr. Haug steered for decades — continued its quiet, steadfast work.

In September 2025, something remarkable happened at the practice on St. Louis Street in Gonzales. Dr. Janelle Leon-Weinman walked through the door — not as a visitor, but as a doctor. Dr. Weinman's daughter. Dr. Haug's niece. A young woman who grew up visiting this office as a child, watching her mother and aunt care for the people of this community, and who chose — after dental school at Marquette University, a master's degree from UTSA, and a rigorous Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency at the Olin E. Teague VA Medical Center in Temple — to come back and build her future here.

And in March 2026, Dr. Janice Weinman returned. To the same building. To the same community. Full circle.

Smiles of Gonzales — the satellite of Seguin Smiles, in the same location where Dr. Denman practiced for nearly fifty years and where Dr. Haug has practiced for forty-five — now enters its next chapter with three doctors, multiple generations of clinical expertise, and a single unbroken thread of commitment to the people of Gonzales and south-central Texas.

Eight decades. Four doctors. Multiple generations of one family. And through all of it — through the wars and the retirements and the departures and the homecomings — a few things have never changed about the care delivered in this building.

The patients are known by name. The appointments are unhurried. The recommendations are honest. The work is done right. And the community this practice serves — Gonzales, Shiner, Cuero, Seguin, Yoakum, Luling, Schulenburg, Hallettsville, and the towns and ranches scattered across this corner of Texas — is not just a patient base. It is home.

Dr. Denman understood that. Dr. Haug has lived it for 45 years. Dr. Weinman carried it with her to Seguin and brings it back to Gonzales. Dr. Leon-Weinman chose it, after ten years away — because she knows there is no better place to build a life and a practice than the community where your family's roots run deep.