Arvada is one of the harder Denver suburbs to rank honestly, and the difficulty is administrative rather than clinical. The city straddles a county line: most of it lies in Jefferson County, but its north-eastern edge crosses into Adams County, and the incorporated boundary interleaves with Westminster along Sheridan Boulevard in a way no map printed on a business card ever shows. Layered on top of that is the postal geography, which does not match the municipal one. An Arvada mailing address in the 80003 ZIP can sit inside the City of Westminster, and a practice can be listed by an aggregator as an Arvada dentist while its front door is in another municipality entirely. Anyone choosing a dentist by search results alone will eventually drive somewhere they did not intend to go.
So the first screen we applied was mechanical. Every candidate street address was run through the U.S. Census Bureau's geocoder, which returns the incorporated place and the county a specific address falls inside rather than the city name the Postal Service prints on an envelope. The results settled several questions quickly. An address at 7970 Sheridan Boulevard, published as Arvada, CO 80003, returned Westminster city, Adams County: wrong municipality and wrong county at the same time. Addresses at 7025 and 9195 Sheridan Boulevard, both carrying Arvada 80003 postal addresses, returned Westminster city in Jefferson County. Every practice recommended below returned Arvada city, Jefferson County, without exception, and that uniformity is itself worth noting: not one of the practices that survived our screen sits on the Adams County side of the city.
The second screen was the state register, and it is the reason this page reads the way it does. Every dentist practising in Colorado holds a licence issued under the Dental Practice Act and administered by the Colorado Dental Board inside DORA's Division of Professions and Occupations, and the entire file is republished as open data. It carries the licence number, the first-issue date, the last renewal, the expiry date and a status word, and it carries separate fields most patients never see: a board case number, the disciplinary action taken, and the dates that action began and ended. A licence can read Active and still carry a stipulation or a letter of admonition, because most board outcomes are conditions on continued practice rather than removals from it. We read those fields for every dentist named on every candidate practice's own website. Three Arvada general practices that were otherwise credible, well established and unambiguously inside the city limits were removed because a principal dentist's Active licence carried recorded board discipline. We describe that rule below rather than naming them. The ranking that follows orders practices by how much of their own account a reader can re-check without asking anyone's permission.
How We Screened Arvada Dental Practices
The Top 7 Dental Practices in Arvada
2026 Rankings · Arvada, Jefferson County
Holmes Family Dentistry
Holmes Family Dentistry is the only practice inside the Arvada city limits where we matched two separate dentists to two clean Colorado licence records issued in the same year, and it is also the only one where those two records run almost exactly in parallel. The register lists Caron Brookes Holmes, licence DEN.8145, first issued on 19 June 2000, and James Richard Holmes, licence DEN.8194, first issued on 22 August 2000. Both are Active, both carry the current expiry date of 29 February 2028, and neither record carries a board case number or a disciplinary action of any kind. Two dentists sharing a surname is the sort of detail that invites a shrug from a reader and a check from an editor; the register confirms two distinct licence numbers, two distinct first-issue dates and two separate files, which is what settles it. Twenty-six years of unbroken licensure on each, with nothing recorded against either, is the deepest verifiable pair we found in the city.
The practice describes itself as offering general dentistry together with specialised care of temporomandibular disorders and orofacial pain, and that phrase needs handling carefully rather than repeating. Orofacial pain was recognised as a dental specialty by the National Commission on Recognition of Dental Specialties and Certifying Boards, which brought the list of recognised specialties to twelve. But recognition of a specialty and certification of an individual are different things, and the practice's site does not name a certifying board, a residency programme or a diplomate status for either dentist. Caron B. Holmes is presented as DDS, MS. A Master of Science is a real academic degree and it frequently accompanies advanced training in exactly this area; it is not, on its own, a specialty credential. We therefore report the orofacial pain emphasis as the practice's stated clinical focus rather than as certified specialty status, and a patient seeking treatment for chronic jaw pain specifically should ask which board, if any, has certified the treating dentist.
Scope beyond that is general and unusually broad for a two-dentist office: preventive cleanings and examinations, cosmetic work, periodontal treatment including the Pinhole surgical technique and LANAP laser therapy, Invisalign clear aligners, laser dentistry, and management of sleep apnea and bruxism. Two clinicians in one building matters for a reason that has nothing to do with prestige, which is that it lets an office absorb an emergency appointment without pushing a scheduled patient a month down the calendar. Published hours run Monday through Friday from seven in the morning, closing at five and at four on Friday, with emergency care available. What the site does not publish is a biography for either dentist, a dental school, a graduation year or a review corpus on its own domain, and that gap is the one real weakness in an otherwise unusually solid file.
Arvada Family and Cosmetic Dentistry
Trading online as AFC Dentistry, this Wadsworth Boulevard practice publishes the deepest and most specific account of itself of any office in Arvada, and the state record supports the part of that account we could test. The register lists David Adam Zeitlin, licence DEN.9643, first issued on 26 March 2008, Active through 29 February 2028, recorded with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree, and carrying no board case number and no disciplinary action. The degree field in the register matches the DDS the site prints after his name, which sounds like a trivial agreement until you have checked a dozen practice websites and found that it is not always there. Eighteen years of continuous Colorado licensure with a clean disciplinary file places him second on this page on tenure and first on the amount of checkable detail published.
One item on the site deserves credit for candour rather than criticism. The practice states plainly that Dr. Randall Scott Simon retired after eight years with the office. Most practice websites simply delete a departed clinician and let patients discover the change at the front desk; publishing it is a small act of transparency that directly affects anyone who had been booking with him. That said, the arithmetic matters for a prospective patient: with that retirement, the site names one currently practising dentist, and a single-dentist office schedules differently from a two-dentist one.
Scope is the widest published in Arvada and is set out service by service: hygiene and preventive care, examinations and cleanings, sealants, composite fillings, in-office and take-home whitening, crowns and bridges, inlays and onlays, removable dentures, root canals, extractions and oral surgery, veneers, Invisalign, Snap-On Smile, dental implants, sedation dentistry, LANAP laser gum therapy, laser frenectomy, Pinhole gum rejuvenation, TMJ pain therapy, amalgam tattoo removal and emergency care. Two entries on that list sit outside dentistry proper and are worth a sentence. EmFace facial rejuvenation is a cosmetic device treatment, and the regulatory boundary around aesthetic procedures in a Colorado dental office is being redrawn right now: the Colorado Dental Board has a stakeholder meeting set for 31 August 2026 on proposed new Rule 1.34, governing the administration of neuromodulators and dermal fillers by dental licensees, alongside proposed revisions to the rules on immunisations and teledentistry, all to implement Senate Bill 25-194. A patient considering an aesthetic service in a dental setting should ask the office where it stands rather than assume the answer is settled.
Five Parks Dental
Five Parks Dental sits in the Five Parks neighbourhood at the north-west edge of Arvada, and it produced one of the two cleanest timeline checks on this page. The site states that Dr. Jesse Jenkins founded the practice in 2008. The register lists Jesse Marron Jenkins, licence DEN.9421, first issued on 8 June 2007, recorded with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree, Active through 29 February 2028, with no board case number and no disciplinary action. A Colorado licence issued in mid-2007 and a practice opened in 2008 is exactly the sequence a founding account of that kind implies, with about a year between licensure and hanging a shingle. Nineteen years of continuous licensure, all of it clean, behind a practice the same dentist founded and still owns.
The published scope leans in a specific and identifiable direction. Alongside routine general dentistry, children's dentistry, crowns and bridges, dental implants, full and partial dentures, porcelain veneers and root canals, the practice offers CEREC same-day crowns and SureSmile clear aligners, and it states an extended study interest in temporomandibular disorder and sleep apnea treatment. The CEREC detail is the one with the most practical consequence for a patient's calendar: a crown milled chairside rather than sent to an outside laboratory changes a two-appointment restoration into a one-appointment one, and it removes the fortnight of wearing a temporary. SureSmile aligners provided by a general dentist are aligner treatment delivered lawfully within general practice, not the recognised specialty of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, which requires a separate accredited residency.
One scheduling fact is published on the practice's own site and is worth reading before you book rather than after. The office runs Monday through Thursday, half past seven in the morning to half past four, and is closed Friday through Sunday. That is a four-day week in a single-dentist office. For a household that wants weekday-morning appointments it is a convenience; for anyone who has ever cracked a tooth on a Thursday evening it is a real constraint, and the honest thing is to say so rather than bury it. The practice places third rather than higher on the absence of a second licensed dentist and on the absence of a review corpus published on its own domain, not on anything in the state record.
Generations Family & Cosmetic Dentistry
A short distance east of Olde Town Arvada, on Ralston Road, Generations occupies a restored 1943 farmhouse — which is an unusual enough building for a dental office that it functions as a landmark for anyone trying to find the door. The register lists Lindsay May Compton, licence DEN.10415, first issued on 21 April 2011, recorded with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree, Active through 29 February 2028, with no board case number and no disciplinary action. The site states a dental degree from the University of Iowa College of Dentistry and more than ten years at this practice, both of which sit comfortably inside a fifteen-year Colorado licensure record without contradicting it.
Two claims on the site need attributing rather than repeating, and they are of different kinds. The practice describes Dr. Compton as an award-winning dentist without naming the award, the awarding body or the year, and an unnamed award is not a checkable fact — we report it as the practice's claim and have given it no weight in this ranking. The second is more interesting. The site states that she has been published in the Journal of Dental Research, which is a genuine peer-reviewed journal published for the International Association for Dental Research rather than a trade magazine. We could not confirm the specific paper from the practice's own domain, so we report that as the practice's claim too, while noting that it is at least the sort of claim that can be checked by anyone willing to search the journal's index, and that a general dentist with a research publication is a meaningfully different proposition from one with a directory listing.
The scope statement is more precise than most and deserves to be quoted the way the practice writes it. Alongside preventive care, fillings, crowns, periodontal disease treatment, veneers, children's dentistry, laser dentistry, bone grafting and whitening, the site lists dental implant restoration — restoration rather than placement. That distinction is real: restoring an implant means fitting the crown onto a fixture, and it does not necessarily mean surgically placing the fixture. A practice that writes it correctly is telling a prospective implant patient something useful about where a referral might come into the treatment plan. Published technology includes handheld digital radiography, digital scanners and in-office 3D printing, and the office keeps two therapy dogs, Winnie and Lola, for anxious patients. Hours run Monday to Thursday, eight to five, closed Friday to Sunday.
Table Mountain Dental
The name points at Golden — North and South Table Mountain are the flat-topped mesas above that city, several miles south-west of here — so this was one of the addresses we expected the geographic screen to catch. It did not. The federal geocoder returns 6410 Miller Street as Arvada city, Jefferson County, and the practice publishes that address itself. The register lists Craig Matthew Cardon, licence DEN.202212, first issued on 12 May 2014, recorded with a Doctor of Medical Dentistry degree, Active through 29 February 2028, with no board case number and no disciplinary action. Twelve years of clean Colorado record, and a DMD in the register matching the DMD on the site.
The practical case for this office is a scheduling one, and it is genuinely unusual in this city. Published hours run Monday through Friday from seven in the morning to five in the evening, with Saturday available by appointment. Across the nineteen Arvada practices we examined, weekend availability of any kind was rare and a seven o'clock weekday opening was not common either. For a household where nobody can take a weekday morning off without losing pay, that combination is worth more than most of what appears on a practice website. Scope is comprehensive general dentistry organised into three published groups: cosmetic work covering bonding, veneers, Invisalign, smile design and whitening; general and family care covering cleanings, examinations, sealants, fluoride treatment, oral cancer screening, sedation dentistry, sleep apnea treatment, extractions and wisdom tooth removal; and restorative work covering bridges, crowns, fillings, implants, dentures, implant-supported dentures and root canal therapy.
It ranks fifth on thinness of biography rather than on anything in the record. The site describes Dr. Cardon as the practice's leader with years of experience but names no dental school, no graduation year, no residency and no professional memberships, which leaves a reader with the licence number and very little else to weigh. Against that, the practice claims no award, no board certification and no specialty anywhere on its site. After a screen in which several better-marketed Arvada offices had to be set aside for reasons visible only inside a state database, an office that overclaims nothing is not making a weak impression. It is simply making a quiet one.
Ward Road Dental
Ward Road Dental publishes the most detailed dentist biography in Arvada, and it is also the one biography on this page whose separate elements corroborate each other rather than merely coexisting. The site states a Bachelor of Arts in music, summa cum laude, from Truman State University; a Doctor of Dental Medicine, magna cum laude, from the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine; a Master of Science in oral biology from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; and service as a dentist in the United States Air Force. The Uniformed Services University is the federal government's own health-sciences university, and a graduate degree from it is essentially only obtainable through military service, so that element and the Air Force service confirm one another rather than sitting side by side unsupported.
The state record fits the same account. The register lists Christopher J. Gillette, licence DEN.203070, first issued on 17 February 2017, Active through 29 February 2028, with no board case number and no disciplinary action. A February 2017 Colorado first-issue date is exactly where a serving military dentist obtaining state licensure ahead of a move into civilian practice would land. One mechanical warning for readers repeating this check: his register entry carries a mailing address in Beavercreek, Ohio, which is the address of record for board correspondence rather than a description of where he works, and Beavercreek adjoins Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Search the register by name, not by city, or you will conclude he is not in Colorado at all.
Scope is general dentistry organised into general, cosmetic and restorative groups: fillings, cleanings and examinations, sedation dentistry, extractions and root canal treatment; whitening, bonding, veneers and crowns; implants, gum contouring, gum disease therapy, bone grafting, All-on-4 implants, bridges and full mouth reconstruction. The site also lists TMJ treatment, sleep apnea treatment, paediatric dentistry, and migraine and headache treatment. That last item is the one to ask about before booking. Headache treatment delivered from a dental office normally means an occlusal splint or a neuromodulator injection rather than anything a neurologist would recognise as migraine management, the two approaches are not interchangeable, and the Colorado rule governing neuromodulators in dental practice is itself under revision this month. The site states that Dr. Gillette speaks Russian, a practical detail rather than a credential and one any prospective patient can verify on a first phone call.
Able Dentistry
The longest continuously active dental licence inside the Arvada city limits does not belong to any of the six practices above. It belongs to a small office on Vance Drive, trading as Able Dentistry, a few blocks off Wadsworth Boulevard. The register lists Peter Charles Medaugh, licence DEN.6768, first issued on 19 September 1990 and Active without interruption since, current through 29 February 2028, with no board case number and no disciplinary action recorded across thirty-six years. On the single measure this publication treats as load-bearing, nobody in this city has a longer clean file, and the practice would rank first on that measure alone.
It ranks seventh anyway, and the reason is a limitation of our method rather than a judgement on the dentistry. Almost everything else here is thin to the point of invisibility. The site is a template that renders its content through JavaScript and still carries an outdated-browser notice of a kind that stopped being necessary a decade ago; a reader arriving without scripts enabled gets a navigation bar and little else. The practice's address and telephone number are published in the page's own structured data, which is how we confirmed them, but there is no biography, no dental school, no graduation year, no staff page and no patient review record published anywhere on the domain. Read that as an absence of evidence rather than as evidence of a problem. A dentist can practise quietly and well for thirty-six years; a ranking built on what a reader can independently re-check will still place that practice below one that offers more to check.
What the site does publish is one operational detail worth more than a page of adjectives, and it is unusual enough that we have not seen it stated by any other dental office in this metro: the practice describes itself as a fragrance-free dental office. For a patient with asthma, chemical sensitivity, migraine triggered by scent, or any of the conditions that make a waiting room genuinely difficult, that single line is more decision-relevant than a stack of testimonials would be. Published hours run Monday to Friday, nine to five. Anyone considering this office should telephone and ask directly for the dentist's degree, dental school and current scope of practice, because the state record confirms his licensure and standing but the website will not tell you the rest.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is an "Arvada, CO" address always inside the City of Arvada?
No, and Arvada is a harder case than most Denver suburbs because two separate boundaries disagree with the postal one. The City of Arvada is an incorporated municipality that lies mostly in Jefferson County but crosses into Adams County at its north-eastern edge, and along Sheridan Boulevard its limits interleave with the City of Westminster. The U.S. Postal Service, meanwhile, applies the Arvada delivery name across ZIP codes that reach beyond the city into Westminster and into unincorporated land. In screening this page we ran every candidate address through the U.S. Census Bureau's geocoder, which returns the incorporated place and the county a specific street address actually falls inside rather than the city name printed on the envelope. The results were unambiguous. An address at 7970 Sheridan Boulevard, published as Arvada, CO 80003, returned Westminster city in Adams County: the wrong municipality and the wrong county at once. Addresses at 7025 and 9195 Sheridan Boulevard, both with Arvada 80003 postal addresses, returned Westminster city in Jefferson County. Every practice recommended on this page returned Arvada city, Jefferson County. If you are checking an office we have not listed, take the street address from the practice's own contact page and run it through the federal geocoder. It takes under a minute and it settles the question.
What does a Colorado dental licence record show beyond the word "Active"?
Considerably more than most patients realise, and the extra fields are the ones that matter. Dentists in Colorado are licensed under the Dental Practice Act by the Colorado Dental Board, which sits within DORA's Division of Professions and Occupations, and dentist licences carry the DEN prefix. The public record for each licence shows the number, the date it was first issued, the date it was last renewed, the current expiry date and a status description. Separately from all of that, it carries disciplinary fields: a board case number, the action taken, and the dates that action took effect and was completed. Those fields are where a letter of admonition, a stipulation, a summary suspension, a revocation or a voluntary surrender appears. The critical point is that a licence can read "Active" and still carry recorded board action, because most disciplinary outcomes are conditions placed on continued practice rather than removals from it. Reading the status word alone will therefore tell you almost nothing. The same file is republished as an open dataset on the Colorado Information Marketplace, which is how every licence number, first-issue date, expiry date and disciplinary screen on this page was confirmed, including the screen that removed three Arvada practices.
Why were some established Arvada practices left off this ranking?
Because a principal dentist at each held an Active Colorado licence that also carried recorded board discipline, and we treat that as disqualifying regardless of how the practice presents otherwise. Three Arvada general practices were set aside on that basis. All three sit unambiguously inside the Arvada city limits, all three have a substantial public presence, and at least one is long established, so their absence here is a decision rather than an oversight. We describe the rule instead of naming the practices, for a specific reason: the register records that a board matter exists and what category of action followed, not what the underlying complaint concluded, and a reader who wants that detail is better served going to the source than taking our summary of it. A stipulation is an agreement between a licensee and the board resolving a complaint, and its terms vary enormously from case to case; a letter of admonition is a lesser action still. Neither is a finding of harm to a patient. If you are weighing an Arvada practice that does not appear on this page, look the treating dentist up yourself in the state register linked in our sources and ask the practice directly. An omission from this page is not the whole story, and it is not an accusation.
Several Arvada practices offer Invisalign, implants, TMJ care and facial aesthetics. Does that make them specialists?
No. "Specialist" is a defined term in dentistry rather than a descriptive one. The National Commission on Recognition of Dental Specialties and Certifying Boards recognises twelve dental specialties: dental anesthesiology, dental public health, endodontics, oral and maxillofacial pathology, oral and maxillofacial radiology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral medicine, orofacial pain, orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics and prosthodontics. Each requires a formal postgraduate residency accredited for that discipline, and a practitioner claiming certification must hold it from the relevant recognised board. A general dentist may lawfully provide clear-aligner treatment, place and restore implants, perform root canal treatment and manage temporomandibular disorders, and many do so to a high standard. None of that confers specialty status, and where a practice on this page states a focus in an area that is also a recognised specialty, we have reported it as the practice's stated focus rather than as certification. Facial aesthetics is a further step outside dentistry proper, and in Colorado that boundary is in motion: the Colorado Dental Board has proposed a new Rule 1.34 on the administration of neuromodulators and dermal fillers by dental licensees, with a stakeholder meeting scheduled for 31 August 2026 alongside proposed revisions to the immunisation and teledentistry rules, all implementing Senate Bill 25-194.
How often do Colorado dental licences renew, and what should I ask before booking?
Colorado dental licences run on a two-year cycle that closes at the end of February in even-numbered years, which is why every licence cited on this page carries the same expiry date of 29 February 2028. Across each two-year period, dentists, dental therapists and dental hygienists holding an Active licence must complete at least thirty hours of continuing education. There are two documented reductions for new licensees: anyone licensed for twelve months or less before their first expiry is not required to complete continuing education for that first renewal, and anyone licensed for more than twelve but fewer than twenty-four months is required to complete fifteen hours rather than thirty. The practical consequence for patients is that a practice website can list a dentist who let a Colorado licence lapse at the last cycle and moved on, and nothing on the page will say so. So ask five questions before you book. First: which dentist by name will treat me, and what is their licence number? Second: is this office independently owned, or part of a group with shared scheduling, since that determines whether you can expect the same clinician twice. Third: when a case exceeds general dentistry, which specialist do you refer to, and are they certified by a recognised board? Fourth: will I receive an itemised written treatment plan before any significant restorative or cosmetic work begins? Fifth: which insurance networks do you participate in, as distinct from which plans you will bill, because a practice can bill a plan it is out of network with and the difference lands on your invoice.
Sources & References
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Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA)
Colorado Dental Homepage — Colorado Dental Board, Division of Professions and Occupations
The licensing and disciplinary authority for every dentist named on this page. Backs the DEN licence prefix, the thirty-hour continuing-education requirement per two-year licence period with its twelve- and twenty-four-month reductions, and the 31 August 2026 stakeholder meeting on proposed new Rule 1.34 covering neuromodulators and dermal fillers and on revisions to Rule 1.33 and Rule 1.36.
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Colorado Information Marketplace / DORA
Professional and Occupational Licenses in Colorado (dataset 7s5z-vewr)
DORA's licence file published as open data, including the board case number, disciplinary action and discipline effective date fields. Every DEN licence number, first-issue date, expiry date and disciplinary screen cited on this page — including the three practices cut for board action — was read from this register.
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Colorado General Assembly
Senate Bill 25-194 — Continuation of the Dental Practice Act
The current statutory authority continuing the Dental Practice Act, under which the Colorado Dental Board licenses and disciplines dentists, dental therapists and dental hygienists, and which the board's August 2026 rulemaking is being conducted to implement.
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U.S. Census Bureau
Census Geocoder — address to incorporated place and county lookup
The federal geocoder returns the incorporated place and county a street address falls within. Every practice address on this page returned Arvada city, Jefferson County; the Sheridan Boulevard addresses carrying Arvada postal mail returned Westminster city, one of them in Adams County.
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National Commission on Recognition of Dental Specialties and Certifying Boards (American Dental Association)
Recognized Dental Specialties
Backs the list of twelve recognised specialties named in the FAQ, the inclusion of orofacial pain among them, and the point that a general dentist providing aligners, implants or temporomandibular care is not thereby a specialist.
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American Dental Association
Oral Health Topics — clinical guidance library
The ADA's clinical reference library, backing the general dentistry scope descriptions, the distinction between implant placement and implant restoration, and the referral guidance in the FAQ.
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City of Arvada
City of Arvada, Colorado — official municipal website
The incorporated municipality whose boundaries this ranking screens against, distinct from the Arvada postal delivery area. The city site rejects automated requests (HTTP 403) — bot-blocking, not a dead link; it loads normally in a browser.
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Jefferson County
Jefferson County, Colorado — official county website
The county returned by the federal geocoder for all seven recommended practice addresses. Arvada also extends into Adams County, which is where one Sheridan Boulevard address carrying Arvada postal mail was found to sit. The county site rejects automated requests (HTTP 403).
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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Oral Health — prevention and adult oral health basics
Federal patient guidance used as the neutral reference point for preventive-care language on this page. The CDC site rejects automated requests (HTTP 403) — bot-blocking, not a dead link.
Our Recommendation
For a household that wants the largest body of independently checkable evidence behind its choice, Holmes Family Dentistry is the clearest option inside the Arvada city limits: two dentists matched to two clean state licences, both first issued in 2000 and both unblemished since. For a reader who wants the most detailed published account of a practice and the widest stated scope, Arvada Family and Cosmetic Dentistry on Wadsworth Boulevard is the alternative, with a clean record running to 2008 and a register entry that confirms the degree its site prints. If a same-day crown or a founding account that survives contact with the register matters most, Dr. Jenkins at Five Parks Dental has held a clean Colorado licence since 2007. For weekend and early-morning access, Table Mountain Dental is the only office in this screen publishing Saturday availability, and for the longest clean file in the city, Dr. Medaugh at Able Dentistry has held one continuously since 1990, in the quietest practice on this page.
Whichever you call, repeat the two checks we made, because both are quick and both changed our conclusions. Confirm that the street address is genuinely inside the City of Arvada rather than an Arvada mailing address in Westminster or on unincorporated land, and look the treating dentist up in the state register, reading the board case and disciplinary action fields rather than only the status word, and noting the expiry date. Three practices were removed from this ranking on the second check alone, and nothing visible on their websites would have told you why. Licensure is a floor rather than a ranking: it establishes that the state permits someone to practise, not that a proposed treatment plan is right for you.
This page is editorial research, not medical or dental advice. Nothing on it diagnoses a condition, recommends a treatment, or predicts an outcome, and no practice listed here has promised a result. Licence and disciplinary records reflect the state register as read in August 2026 and can change at any time. Discuss your own care with a licensed dentist, and verify every credential independently before you make a decision.
Denver Dean's List maintains editorial independence. We do not accept payment for rankings or accept advertising from the practices we evaluate. Rankings are based on state licensure and disciplinary records, federal address geocoding, and editorial research, and reflect the record as of August 2026. Licence status can change; verify it yourself before making a decision.