Did the paint in the dent in the hood get damaged? If not, a paintless dent repair person may be able to get it back to looking close to new rather than buying an entire new hood. It may be easier to fix than other body panels repaired with the procedure too since getting interior access to the damaged area wouldn't be as difficult.

If none of the other panels were damaged (dented, paint scraped off, etc.) then I'd agree with your assessment that everything just needs to be realigned. And, even if any of the other panels DID get dented, a paintless dent repair person may be able to take care of them too.

Car dealerships use paintless dent repair all the time around here, so if you don't find any actual listings in the Yellow Pages, a few calls to local dealerships may get you a contact number

And don't tell anyone this, but after I got a similar contact number from one of my local dealerships after they said that I could have the work done in their shop, the paintless dent repair guy and I just made an arrangement on the side and cut out the middle man.

Sorry to hear about the deer encounter. I've had a few of those myself. Did you at least end up getting any deer steaks for your troubles?