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Top 7 Dentists in Westminster (2026)

Every dentist named on this page was matched to one Colorado licence record by number, every one of those records was read for board discipline rather than for the word Active, and every street address was geocoded to establish which city and which county it is actually in.

Westminster is split down the middle by a county line, and almost nothing printed on a business card will tell you which side of it you are standing on. The city spans two counties: addresses west of Sheridan Boulevard, the 5200 West line, fall in Jefferson County, and addresses east of it fall in Adams County. Westminster City Hall, at 4800 West 92nd Avenue, is on the Adams side. A dental practice at 6350 West 92nd Avenue, on the same street and a mile and a half west, is in Jefferson County. Postal geography adds a second layer of disagreement on top of the first. One of the practices recommended below carries a ZIP code that most people associate with somewhere else entirely: an 80020 address, a Broomfield delivery code, which geocodes to Westminster city all the same. The 80030 delivery area runs the other way, reaching past the city limits into unincorporated Adams County, so a Westminster mailing address on that side of town is not by itself evidence of anything.

The first screen we applied was therefore mechanical rather than editorial. Every candidate street address was run through the U.S. Census Bureau's geocoder using the incorporated places and counties layers, which returns the municipality and county a specific address falls inside rather than the city name the Postal Service prints on an envelope. The results were sharp enough to be useful in their own right. Two of the practices recommended here sit on the same boulevard and land in different counties: 5255 West 113th Avenue returns Westminster city, Jefferson County, and 5130 West 80th Avenue returns Westminster city, Adams County. Both are genuinely inside the city. Neither address would tell you its county without being looked up, and any practice website assigning itself one on the strength of its ZIP code is guessing.

The second screen was the state register, and it is the reason this page is shorter than the list of Westminster dental offices you will find on any aggregator. 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 whole 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 separately from all of that it carries fields most patients never see: a board case number, the disciplinary action taken, and the dates that action took effect. A licence can read Active and still carry a stipulation or a letter of admonition, because most board outcomes are conditions placed on continued practice rather than removals from it. Ten dentists whose address of record in that register is in Westminster hold Active licences that also carry recorded board discipline. Two of the practices we screened for this page were removed on that basis, and we describe the rule below rather than naming them. What follows orders the survivors by how much of their own account a reader can re-check without asking anyone's permission.

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Westminster City, Not the Westminster ZIP
Each address geocoded to Westminster city rather than to a neighbouring municipality or unincorporated land carrying Westminster postal mail
02
County Established, Not Assumed
Adams or Jefferson stated per listing from the federal counties layer, never inferred from a ZIP code or from which side of Sheridan a map appears to show
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Matched to One Licence Record
Each dentist named resolved to a single DEN record in the state register, cited here by number and first-issue date
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Disciplinary Fields Read
The board case and action fields were checked; any practice whose principal dentist carried board action was cut
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Current, Not Merely Listed
Expiry dates confirmed, so a lapsed licence on a live staff page could not pass as an active one
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Scope Stated Accurately
General practice described as general practice, with no implied specialty or board certification
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Claims Attributed, Not Repeated
Where a site asserts an award, a membership or a specialty it does not substantiate, we report it as the practice's claim
1

Legacy Ridge Dentistry

5255 W. 113th Avenue · Westminster, CO 80020
2 Licences Verified Both Clean Since 2007

Legacy Ridge Dentistry is the only practice inside the Westminster city limits where we matched two separate dentists to two clean Colorado licence records issued one week apart, and it is also the practice that best illustrates why this page was screened by geocoder rather than by ZIP code. The register lists Nolan Mackenzie Brotherton, licence DEN.9416, first issued on 8 June 2007, and Jamie Lee Brotherton, licence DEN.9429, first issued on 15 June 2007. Both records carry a Doctor of Dental Surgery in the degree field, both read Active with the current expiry date of 29 February 2028, and neither carries a board case number or a disciplinary action of any kind. Nineteen years of unbroken licensure on each, with nothing recorded against either, is the deepest verifiable pair we found in this city.

The address is the interesting part. The practice publishes 5255 West 113th Avenue with an 80020 ZIP code, which is a Broomfield delivery code, and describes its own location as the corner of 113th and Sheridan. Sheridan Boulevard is the 5200 West line and the boundary between Westminster's two counties. At 5255 West, this office sits a little over half a block west of it, and the federal geocoder returns Westminster city, Jefferson County. A reader working from the ZIP code alone would place the practice in Broomfield; a reader working from the street name alone would have no idea which county it is in. Neither would be right by accident. The practice also states that it moved to this location, which is worth knowing if you are following an older directory listing to a door that is no longer there.

Published scope is general and family dentistry for adults and children: cleanings and preventive care, cosmetic work including whitening and veneers, conservative gum treatment described as scaling and root smoothing, crowns and bridges, and custom full and partial dentures. The site also carries a separate facial esthetics section, and that is the one item to ask about before booking rather than after. Aesthetic injectable treatment in a Colorado dental office is a boundary currently being redrawn: Senate Bill 25-194 continued the Dental Practice Act through 2034 and expanded the board's grounds for discipline and its rulemaking authority, and the rules governing what a dental licensee may administer are being written under it. Ask the office where it stands rather than assuming the answer is settled. Two smaller points of housekeeping: the site's inner pages mostly write about a single Dr. Brotherton where the homepage names two, and the practice states that it provides complimentary whitening to regular patients, which we report as its own published offer rather than as a finding of ours. Published hours run Monday to Thursday with a seven o'clock start on Tuesday and Wednesday, and a Friday morning closing at noon.

Named Dentists
Dr. Nolan Brotherton, DDS and Dr. Jamie Brotherton, DDS
Licence Verification
Colorado licences DEN.9416 (first issued 8 June 2007) and DEN.9429 (15 June 2007), both Active to 29 February 2028, neither carrying a board case number or a disciplinary action
Register Agreement
The register's degree field records a Doctor of Dental Surgery for both dentists, matching the DDS the practice publishes
Geography Check
5255 W. 113th Avenue carries an 80020 Broomfield ZIP code and returns Westminster city, Jefferson County from the federal geocoder, just west of the Sheridan Boulevard county line
Scope
General and family dentistry for adults and children: cleanings and preventive care, cosmetic treatment and veneers, scaling and root smoothing for gum disease, crowns and bridges, and custom full and partial dentures
Scope Caution
The site carries a separate facial esthetics section. Aesthetic injectable treatment by dental licensees in Colorado is the subject of active rulemaking under Senate Bill 25-194; ask the office directly
Published Contact
303-465-5900 · legacyridgedentistry.com
Two Clean Licences Verified Both Continuous Since 2007 Register Confirms Both Degrees 113th And Sheridan, Jefferson County
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Westminster Dental Arts Group

7350 Lowell Boulevard · Westminster, CO 80030
CO Licence DEN.6555 Longest Clean Licence Here

Trading as Westminster Dental Arts Group and branded on its own pages as the practice of Nelson Sanders DDS and Lindsey Sanders DDS, this Lowell Boulevard office holds the longest continuously clean dental licence on this page, and it is also the only practice in the city where a published biography and a state record corroborate each other twice over. The site states that Dr. Nelson Sanders received his DDS from the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine in 1988. The register lists Nelson Craig Sanders, licence DEN.6555, first issued on 21 September 1988, Active through 29 February 2028, with no board case number and no disciplinary action across thirty-eight years. The site states that his daughter Dr. Lindsey Sanders graduated from the same school in 2018. The register lists Lindsey Jean Sanders, licence DEN.203663, first issued on 20 June 2018, recorded with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree, Active through the same date, and equally clean. A dental degree in a stated year and a Colorado licence issued that same year is the sequence those accounts imply, and it holds in both files.

Three claims on the site need attributing rather than repeating, and they are of different weights. The practice states that Dr. Nelson Sanders has been selected among top dentists in 5280 magazine from 2008 to 2021, which is a magazine listing rather than a credential and which we could not confirm from the practice's own domain. It states that he serves on the Colorado Dental Board as a practice monitor, which if accurate is a meaningful and unusual thing for a general dentist to do, and which we report as the practice's claim because the register publishes licensure and discipline, not board service. And it lists membership of the American Dental Society alongside the Colorado Dental Association and the Metro Denver Dental Society. The national body is the American Dental Association; we could not identify an organisation under the name given, and we treat it as a slip on the page rather than a finding about the dentist. None of the three carried weight in this ranking. The clean thirty-eight-year record did.

Published scope is unusually wide for a two-dentist office and is set out service by service: hygiene, dental implants and mini implants, cosmetic work covering Snap-On Smile, Lumineers, veneers, whitening and bonding, inlays and onlays, endodontics including root canal retreatment performed with an operating microscope, restorative bridges, crowns and dentures, paediatric sealants and mouthguards, periodontics covering bone grafting, occlusal adjustment, periodontal splinting and scaling and root planing, oral surgery including wisdom tooth extraction and site preservation, oral pathology, orthodontics, TMJ care and night guards. The endodontic microscope is the detail worth pausing on, because chairside magnification of that kind is more often found in a specialist endodontic practice than in general dentistry, and it changes what a retreatment case can be attempted in-house. Two practical warnings. The office runs Monday to Thursday and is closed Friday. And the building at 7350 Lowell Boulevard contains more than one dental suite, while this practice publishes no suite number of its own, so confirm the door number when you book. The site also carries two different telephone numbers, 303-390-1659 in its page header and 303-428-6571 in its own structured data.

Named Dentists
Dr. Nelson Sanders, DDS and Dr. Lindsey Sanders, DDS
Licence Verification
Colorado licences DEN.6555 (first issued 21 September 1988) and DEN.203663 (20 June 2018), both Active to 29 February 2028, neither carrying a board case number or a disciplinary action
Timeline Check
The site states University of Colorado dental degrees in 1988 and 2018; the register's first-issue dates are September 1988 and June 2018, matching both accounts
Scope
General and family dentistry: hygiene, implants and mini implants, veneers, Lumineers, Snap-On Smile, whitening, bonding, inlays and onlays, root canal treatment and retreatment under an operating microscope, crowns, bridges, dentures, periodontal therapy, bone grafting, oral surgery, orthodontics, TMJ care and night guards
Claims Attributed
The site states 5280 magazine top-dentist selection from 2008 to 2021 and service on the Colorado Dental Board as a practice monitor. Neither is verifiable from the practice's own domain and both are reported as its claims. Its membership list names an American Dental Society; the national body is the American Dental Association
Editorial Note
Closed Friday. The building holds more than one dental suite and this practice publishes no suite number; the site carries two different phone numbers, 303-390-1659 and 303-428-6571
Published Contact
303-390-1659 · drnelsonsanders.com
Thirty-Eight Years Without Board Action Both Dental Degrees Corroborated Endodontic Operating Microscope Two Dentists Under One Roof
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Bennett Dental Group

5130 West 80th Avenue, Suite 202 · Westminster, CO 80030
2 Licences Verified Clean Since 1999 And 2000

Bennett Dental Group is the second two-dentist practice on this page to clear the register cleanly, and the pairing is a married one rather than a partnership of convenience. The register lists Scott Steven Bennett, licence DEN.8060, first issued on 27 October 1999, and Kirsten Liesl West-Bennett, licence DEN.8172, first issued on 21 July 2000. Both read Active through 29 February 2028 and neither carries a board case number or a disciplinary action. The site states that both took their dental degrees at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, that Dr. Scott Bennett was born and raised in the Westminster area and finished his undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado Boulder, and that Dr. West-Bennett grew up in Honolulu and took her undergraduate degree at the same university. That is more biographical specificity than most dental sites in this metro publish, and none of it contradicts a licence record that begins at the end of the 1990s.

The practice also publishes the clearest local history of any office we screened, and it doubles as a geography lesson. The site states that the group is the evolution of a practice started by Dr. James M. Bennett, that he moved to Colorado in 1961, practised in the north metro for more than forty years, was one of the doctors involved in constructing the Cedarwood Square complex at 80th and Sheridan in 1977, and died in May 2007. Cedarwood Square is where this office still is. And 80th and Sheridan is the exact seam this page was screened against: at 5130 West, the address sits just east of the 5200 West line, and the federal geocoder returns Westminster city, Adams County. The practice ranked first on this page is at 5255 West on the same boulevard and returns Jefferson County. Same street, same city, two counties, and nothing on either website would tell you.

One line on the homepage needs attributing rather than repeating. The site refers to fifty years of practice, and that figure plainly reaches back through the founder's career rather than describing either currently licensed dentist, whose Colorado records begin in 1999 and 2000. The same paragraph says the group specialises in general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry and family dentistry. None of those three is a recognised dental specialty, the site names no certifying board, and the word is being used colloquially rather than in its regulated sense; we report it as the practice's phrasing. Published services run from general and cosmetic dentistry through endodontics, implant dentistry, oral surgery, orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, periodontal therapy and emergency care. The register's degree field is blank for both dentists, which is a gap in the state file rather than in the practice's account. Published hours are the constraint to weigh: Monday and Thursday eight to five, Tuesday seven to three, Friday seven to two, and closed all day Wednesday.

Named Dentists
Dr. Scott Bennett and Dr. Kirsten West-Bennett
Licence Verification
Colorado licences DEN.8060 (first issued 27 October 1999) and DEN.8172 (21 July 2000), both Active to 29 February 2028, neither carrying a board case number or a disciplinary action
Geography Check
5130 West 80th Avenue returns Westminster city, Adams County, just east of the Sheridan Boulevard line. The practice ranked first on this page, on the same boulevard, returns Jefferson County
Scope
General, cosmetic and family dentistry, with published sections for endodontics, implant dentistry, oral surgery, orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, periodontal therapy and emergency care
Claims Attributed
The homepage cites fifty years of practice, a figure that reaches back to the founder rather than to either licensed dentist, and says the group specialises in general, cosmetic and family dentistry. None of the three is a recognised dental specialty and no certifying board is named
Editorial Note
Closed all day Wednesday. The register's degree field is blank for both dentists, a gap in the state file rather than in the practice's own account
Published Contact
(303) 429-3549 · bennettdentalgroup.com
Two Clean Licences Verified Both Dental Schools Named Founding History Published In Full Cedarwood Square, Adams County
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Standley Shores Dental Group

10071 Wadsworth Parkway · Westminster, CO 80021
2 Licences Verified Founder's Record Confirmed

On the far western edge of the city, out past Standley Lake, this practice produced the one timeline check on this page that turned on a licence nobody is using any more. The site states that Standley Shores Dental Group was founded by Dr. Stanley L. Jeranko on the belief that patients want quality, gentle dental work at good value. The register lists a Stanley L. Jeranko, licence DEN.105399, first issued on 8 June 1983, with a status of Retired rather than Active or Expired. Retired is a distinct status in the Colorado file, and it is exactly what a founder who no longer treats patients but never let his standing lapse should look like. It is a small check and it costs nothing to run, but a founding story that survives contact with the state register is worth more than one that only appears in marketing copy.

The two dentists currently named both clear the register cleanly. Alexandre Maymone holds licence DEN.203850, first issued on 7 January 2019, recorded with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree, Active through 29 February 2028, with no board case number and no disciplinary action. Justin Scott Petracek holds licence DEN.8925, first issued on 8 April 2005, also recorded with a DDS, also Active to the same date, also clean. In both cases the register's degree field matches the DDS the site prints after the name, which sounds trivial until you have checked a dozen practice websites and found that it is not always there. Twenty-one years of clean Colorado record on one licence and seven on the other, in an office that keeps two dentists on the schedule. The address returns Westminster city, Jefferson County, well west of the Sheridan seam, in the 80021 delivery area.

Published scope leans heavily toward surgical and reconstructive work: dental implants, full-mouth implants and same-day implants, bone grafts, extractions and wisdom tooth removal, full mouth reconstruction, crowns and bridges, dentures, root canals, porcelain veneers, whitening, Invisalign clear aligners, TMJ therapy, family dentistry and emergency care. Intravenous sedation is on that list and it is the item to ask about directly. Sedation in a dental setting is separately permitted work rather than something a general dental licence covers by default, and Senate Bill 25-194, which continued the Dental Practice Act through 2034, also brought anesthesia inspectors into regulation. Ask which sedation permit the treating dentist holds and who monitors you during the procedure. The practice ranks fourth rather than higher for what it does not publish: no dental schools, no graduation years, no residencies and no professional memberships appear for either dentist. Against that, it claims no award, no board certification and no specialty anywhere on its site, which after a screen like this one counts for something. Published hours run Monday to Thursday from seven, with an eight o'clock Wednesday start, and Friday from seven until two.

Named Dentists
Dr. Alexandre Maymone, DDS and Dr. Justin Petracek, DDS
Licence Verification
Colorado licences DEN.203850 (first issued 7 January 2019) and DEN.8925 (8 April 2005), both Active to 29 February 2028, neither carrying a board case number or a disciplinary action
Founder Check
The site names Dr. Stanley L. Jeranko as founder. The register lists licence DEN.105399, first issued 8 June 1983, with a status of Retired, which is consistent with a founder no longer treating patients
Scope
General, restorative and surgical dentistry: implants including full-mouth and same-day cases, bone grafts, extractions and wisdom teeth, full mouth reconstruction, crowns, bridges, dentures, root canals, veneers, whitening, Invisalign, TMJ therapy and emergency care
Scope Caution
The practice lists intravenous sedation. Sedation is separately permitted work rather than something a general dental licence covers by default; ask which permit the treating dentist holds and who monitors the patient
Editorial Note
No dental school, graduation year, residency or professional membership is published for either dentist. The site claims no award, certification or specialty
Published Contact
(303) 420-9720 · ssdgsmiles.com
Two Clean Licences Verified Register Confirms Both Degrees Founding Account Checks Out Claims No Award Or Specialty
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Monarch Family Dental

905 W. 124th Avenue, Suite 130 · Westminster, CO 80234
2 Licences Verified In-House Dental Laboratory

At the northern end of the city, in the 124th Avenue corridor, Monarch Family Dental publishes both of its dentists with a named dental school and a graduation year each, which is the disclosure this ranking rewards most and which fewer than half the practices we screened bothered with. The register lists Jorge Ivan Rojas, licence DEN.203371, first issued on 11 October 2017, Active through 29 February 2028, with no board case number and no disciplinary action. It lists Andrea Irarrazabal, licence DEN.204303, first issued on 25 February 2020, recorded with a Doctor of Medical Dentistry degree, Active to the same date, and equally clean. The DMD in the register matches the DMD the site prints after her name. The address returns Westminster city, Adams County.

One feature of both records deserves explaining rather than glossing over, because at first glance it looks like a discrepancy and it is not. The site states that Dr. Rojas graduated from Loma Linda University School of Dentistry in 2008 and that Dr. Irarrazabal graduated from Nova Southeastern University in 2013. Their Colorado licences were first issued in 2017 and 2020 respectively, nine and seven years later. That gap is the ordinary pattern for dentists who practised in another state before moving here: Colorado's file begins when Colorado's licence begins, not when the career did. The practical consequence for a patient is worth stating plainly. A Colorado disciplinary screen of the kind this page runs covers the Colorado years only. For a dentist whose career started elsewhere, the equivalent check for the earlier years has to be run in whichever state issued the first licence, and neither the register nor the practice website will do it for you.

The operational detail that distinguishes this office is an in-house dental laboratory. Restorations fabricated on the premises rather than couriered to an outside lab change the calendar rather than the dentistry: it is what makes a same-day crown possible and it removes the fortnight of wearing a temporary. Published scope is comprehensive: dental implants and full-mouth implants, cosmetic dentistry and smile makeovers, porcelain veneers, same-day crowns, Invisalign, whitening, preventive care, gum disease treatment, oral surgery, oral cancer screening, wisdom tooth removal, dentures and partials, full mouth reconstruction, emergency dentistry and intravenous sedation. The same sedation question applies here as at Standley Shores: ask which permit the treating dentist holds. The practice ranks fifth on one avoidable gap, which is that we found no hours of operation published on the pages we read. For an office in a suite inside a shared professional building, that is among the most useful things a website can carry, and its absence means telephoning before travelling.

Named Dentists
Dr. Jorge Rojas, DDS and Dr. Andrea Irarrazabal, DMD
Licence Verification
Colorado licences DEN.203371 (first issued 11 October 2017) and DEN.204303 (25 February 2020), both Active to 29 February 2028, neither carrying a board case number or a disciplinary action
Register Agreement
The register's degree field records a Doctor of Medical Dentistry for Dr. Irarrazabal, matching the DMD printed on the practice's own site
Timeline Note
The site names dental degrees in 2008 and 2013, several years before the Colorado first-issue dates. That is the normal pattern for dentists licensed elsewhere first, and it means a Colorado disciplinary screen covers only the Colorado years
Scope
General, cosmetic and implant dentistry: implants and full-mouth implants, veneers, same-day crowns, Invisalign, whitening, preventive care, gum disease treatment, oral surgery, oral cancer screening, wisdom teeth, dentures and partials, full mouth reconstruction, sedation and emergency care
Editorial Note
The practice publishes an in-house dental laboratory, which is what makes a same-day restoration possible. We found no hours of operation published; telephone before travelling
Published Contact
(303) 920-4900 · monarchfamilydental.com
Two Clean Licences Verified Both Dental Schools And Years Named Restorations Made On Site 124th Avenue, Adams County
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Peak Family Dentistry & Orthodontics

6350 West 92nd Avenue, Unit A #400 · Westminster, CO 80031
CO Licence DEN.201813 Evening Appointments Published

The practical case for this office is a scheduling one, and it is genuinely useful in a city where almost every dental practice keeps banker's hours. Published times run Monday from twenty to eight in the morning, Tuesday from eight, Wednesday from nine until six in the evening, Thursday from ten until five, and Friday from twenty to eight until four. A Wednesday appointment that ends at six and a Monday one that starts before eight are two different answers to the same problem, which is that most people cannot take a weekday morning off without losing pay. The register supports the clinical side of the file: Brandon Dean Campbell holds licence DEN.201813, first issued on 17 July 2012, recorded with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree, Active through 29 February 2028, with no board case number and no disciplinary action across fourteen years.

The practice name is where a reader needs to slow down, and this is the clearest example on the page of a claim that has to be attributed rather than repeated. The office trades as Peak Family Dentistry & Orthodontics and describes itself as a destination for cosmetic dentistry and specialty care. Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics is one of the twelve dental specialties recognised by the National Commission on Recognition of Dental Specialties and Certifying Boards, and it requires a formal accredited postgraduate residency; recognition of a specialty and certification of an individual are separate steps, and a practitioner claiming certification must hold it from the relevant recognised board. The licence we matched here is a general dental licence, the site names no orthodontist, no residency and no certifying board, and no second dentist is named anywhere we could find. A general dentist may lawfully provide braces and clear-aligner treatment, and many do so competently. That is not the same thing as a specialist practice, and a parent booking a child for orthodontic assessment on the strength of the sign should ask who will plan the case and what their training is. The site's claim of more than 250 positive reviews at five stars is likewise the practice's own count.

The address is worth a paragraph of its own, because this listing produced the sharpest illustration of directory drift we found in Westminster. At least one aggregator carries a Bradburn Boulevard address for this practice; the practice's own contact page publishes 6350 West 92nd Avenue, Unit A #400. Both addresses are inside the Westminster city limits, so neither would fail a naive city check. They are in different counties: the Bradburn Boulevard address returns Adams County and West 92nd Avenue returns Jefferson County. And West 92nd Avenue itself crosses the seam, because Westminster City Hall sits on the same street at 4800 West, on the Adams side. Take the address from the practice rather than from a directory, then geocode it. Published scope is general and family dentistry with cosmetic work: examinations and cleanings, whitening, fillings, crowns including same-day crowns, root canal treatment, implants, Invisalign and orthodontic treatment.

Named Dentist
Dr. Brandon Campbell, DDS
Licence Verification
Colorado licence DEN.201813, status Active, first issued 17 July 2012, current to 29 February 2028, no board case or disciplinary action recorded
Claim Attributed
The practice name and site reference orthodontics and specialty care. Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics is a recognised specialty requiring an accredited residency; the site names no orthodontist, residency or certifying board, and the licence matched here is a general dental licence
Geography Check
A directory listing carries a Bradburn Boulevard address, which geocodes to Westminster city, Adams County. The practice's own contact page publishes 6350 West 92nd Avenue, which geocodes to Westminster city, Jefferson County. Both are in the city; only one is the practice's own address
Scope
General and family dentistry with cosmetic and orthodontic treatment: exams and cleanings, whitening, fillings, crowns including same-day crowns, root canal treatment, implants, Invisalign and braces
Editorial Note
Published hours include a Wednesday running until six in the evening and two mornings opening before eight, the widest weekday window in this screen. No dental school, graduation year or second dentist is published
Published Contact
303-427-5135 · peakdentalorthodontics.com
Fourteen Years Without Board Action Register Confirms The DDS Wednesday Evening Appointments West 92nd Avenue, Jefferson County
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Noor Family Dentistry

4070 West 72nd Avenue · Westminster, CO 80030
CO Licence DEN.202604 Dental School Named

The smallest practice on this page is a single-dentist office in south Westminster, and it publishes more about the person doing the treatment than several larger practices above it. The register lists Erada Noor, licence DEN.202604, first issued on 22 July 2015, recorded with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree, Active through 29 February 2028, with no board case number and no disciplinary action across eleven years. The site states an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and a dental degree from Indiana University, and prints DDS after her name, which the register's degree field matches. The practice describes itself as family-owned. It claims no award, no board certification and no specialty anywhere we could find, and after a screen in which the loudest marketing frequently belonged to the practices that had to be set aside, that is not a weakness.

The address needed checking rather than assuming, and it passed. 4070 West 72nd Avenue returns Westminster city, Adams County from the federal geocoder. This matters here more than in most parts of the city, because the 80030 delivery area does not stop at the municipal boundary: it reaches out into unincorporated Adams County, so a Westminster postal address in this part of town is evidence of a mail route rather than of a city. We geocoded rather than assumed for every address on this page, and this is one of the corridors where the two answers most often disagree.

Published scope is narrower than most offices above and stated in six groups: sleep dentistry, sleep apnea treatment, paediatric dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, restorative dentistry, periodontal treatment, and oral surgery with post-operative care. The first two need separating, because they sound like one service and are two. Sleep dentistry in general practice normally means sedation to get an anxious patient through treatment; sleep apnea treatment normally means a custom oral appliance worn at night to hold the airway open, and it is care for a medical condition usually diagnosed by a physician after a sleep study. They are not interchangeable, they involve different consent and different follow-up, and the honest question at the front desk is which one is on offer. Hours are the other thing to read before dialling: the office runs a split shift, closing between one and two Monday through Thursday, staying open until six on Monday and Thursday and until four on Tuesday and Wednesday, and running a straight Friday morning from half past seven to half past one. The practice ranks seventh on the thinness of what else is published rather than on anything in the register: no hygienist, no associate dentist and no patient review record appear on its own domain, and the site's footer copyright still reads 2022.

Named Dentist
Dr. Erada Noor, DDS
Licence Verification
Colorado licence DEN.202604, status Active, first issued 22 July 2015, current to 29 February 2028, no board case or disciplinary action recorded
Register Agreement
The register's degree field records a Doctor of Dental Surgery, matching the DDS printed on the practice's own site
Training
The site states an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and a dental degree from Indiana University
Scope
General and family dentistry: sleep dentistry, sleep apnea treatment, paediatric dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, restorative dentistry, periodontal treatment and oral surgery with post-operative care
Scope Caution
Sleep dentistry and sleep apnea treatment are listed separately and are different things: the first normally means sedation for anxious patients, the second an oral appliance for a condition usually diagnosed by a physician. Ask which is on offer
Editorial Note
The office runs a split shift with a closed hour between one and two, Monday to Thursday. No hygienist, associate dentist or published review record appears on the practice's own domain
Published Contact
(303) 429-7072 · noordentistrydenver.com
Eleven Years Without Board Action Dental School Named On Site Register Confirms The DDS Claims No Award Or Specialty

Frequently Asked Questions

Is a "Westminster, CO" address always inside the City of Westminster, and which county is it in?

The two questions have to be answered separately, because Westminster is one of the few Denver suburbs where both can go wrong at once. The City of Westminster is an incorporated municipality that spans two counties: addresses west of Sheridan Boulevard, the 5200 West line, fall in Jefferson County, and addresses east of it fall in Adams County. Westminster City Hall, at 4800 West 92nd Avenue, is on the Adams side. The postal geography agrees with neither boundary. The 80030 delivery area reaches past the city limits into unincorporated Adams County, so a Westminster mailing address on that side of town does not establish that a business is in the city. It runs the other way too: the practice ranked first on this page carries an 80020 ZIP code, a Broomfield delivery code, and geocodes squarely to Westminster city. In screening this page we ran every candidate street address through the U.S. Census Bureau's geocoder using the incorporated places and counties layers, which returns the municipality and county a specific address actually falls inside. Two of the practices recommended here sit on the same boulevard in different counties: 5255 West 113th Avenue returned Westminster city, Jefferson County, and 5130 West 80th Avenue returned Westminster city, Adams County. If you are checking an office we have not listed, take the street address from the practice's own contact page rather than from a directory, and run it through the federal geocoder. It takes under a minute and it settles both questions at once.

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, a status description and, where the state holds it, the degree the licensee was awarded. 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 cease and desist order, a 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. There is a second status worth knowing about: "Retired", which is distinct from both Active and Expired and describes a licensee who has stepped back from treating patients without letting their standing lapse. We used exactly that field to confirm the founder named by one practice on this page. 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.

Why were some established Westminster 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. Two Westminster practices were set aside on that basis. Both sit unambiguously inside the city limits and both have a substantial public presence, so their absence here is a decision rather than an oversight. More broadly, ten dentists whose address of record in the state register is in Westminster hold Active licences carrying recorded board action, though not all of them practise in the city today. 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 a Westminster 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 Westminster practices offer orthodontics, implants, sedation and facial esthetics. 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. Recognition of a specialty and certification of an individual are separate steps: once the National Commission recognises a field, the sponsoring organisation must establish a national board that certifies individual diplomates. Each specialty 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 and orthodontic 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. One practice on this page carries the word Orthodontics in its trading name while naming no orthodontist, residency or certifying board, and we have reported that as the practice's claim rather than as certification. Facial esthetics is a further step outside dentistry proper, and in Colorado that boundary is in motion under Senate Bill 25-194, which continued the Dental Practice Act through 2034, expanded the grounds on which the board may discipline a licensee, and brought anesthesia inspectors into regulation.

What should I ask a Westminster dental office before booking?

Six questions, and none of them is awkward to ask at a front desk. First: which dentist by name will treat me, and what is their licence number? A practice with more than one dentist may not be able to promise you the same clinician twice, and the licence number is what lets you run the register check yourself. Second: which county and which city is this address actually in? Not for its own sake, but because a practice that cannot answer it has never checked, and the answer determines which county clerk and which municipal jurisdiction any related paperwork sits in. Third: if sedation is being proposed, which permit does the treating dentist hold and who monitors me during the procedure? Sedation is separately permitted work rather than something a general dental licence covers by default. Fourth: when a case exceeds general dentistry, which specialist do you refer to, and are they certified by one of the twelve recognised boards? Under the Dental Practice Act, diagnosis, treatment planning and any procedure that surgically alters oral anatomy remain the dentist's own responsibility, while hygienists, dental therapists and assistants each have a defined and narrower scope, so it is fair to ask who will actually be doing what. Fifth: will I get an itemised written treatment plan before any significant restorative or cosmetic work begins? Sixth: 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

  • Colorado Information Marketplace / Colorado DORA Professional and Occupational Licenses in Colorado (dataset 7s5z-vewr)

    DORA's licence file published as open data, including the licence number, first-issue date, last renewal, expiry date, status description, degree field and the separate board case number, program action and discipline effective date fields. Every DEN licence number, date, degree and disciplinary screen cited on this page, including the two practices cut for board action and the Retired status confirming one founder, was read from this register.

  • 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 was resolved against the incorporated places and counties layers, which is the source for each Westminster city confirmation and for every Adams or Jefferson County attribution stated per listing.

  • Colorado General Assembly Senate Bill 25-194 — Sunset Dental Practice Act

    Signed 5 May 2025 and effective 6 August 2025. Continues the Dental Practice Act for nine years through 2034, changes the membership of the Colorado Dental Board, expands the grounds for discipline, clarifies the tasks of dental assistants and hygienists, and brings anesthesia inspectors into regulation. Backs every reference on this page to the Act's current authority and to rulemaking in progress.

  • Colorado General Assembly, via FindLaw Colorado Revised Statutes § 12-220-501 — tasks authorized to be performed by dental therapists, dental hygienists, or dental assistants

    The scope-of-practice section of the Dental Practice Act. Backs the statement that diagnosis, treatment planning, prescribing and any procedure that surgically alters oral anatomy remain the dentist's own responsibility, while hygienists, dental therapists and assistants each hold a defined and narrower scope.

  • 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 orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics among them, and the distinction between recognition of a specialty and certification of an individual diplomate by a national certifying board.

  • American Dental Association Oral Health Topics — clinical guidance library

    The ADA's clinical reference library, backing the general dentistry scope descriptions used throughout this page, the distinction between sedation for anxious patients and oral appliance therapy for sleep apnea, and the referral guidance in the FAQ.

  • City of Westminster City of Westminster, Colorado — official municipal website

    The incorporated municipality whose boundaries this ranking screens against, distinct from the Westminster postal delivery areas. The city publishes its City Hall address as 4800 West 92nd Avenue, which is the Adams County side of the West 92nd Avenue corridor referenced in this page's geography checks.

  • Adams County Adams County, Colorado — official county website

    The county returned by the federal geocoder for the Westminster addresses east of Sheridan Boulevard on this page, and the county containing the unincorporated land that the 80030 postal delivery area extends into. The county site rejects automated requests (HTTP 403) — bot-blocking, not a dead link; it loads normally in a browser.

  • Jefferson County Jefferson County, Colorado — official county website

    The county returned by the federal geocoder for the Westminster addresses west of Sheridan Boulevard on this page. The county site rejects automated requests (HTTP 403) — bot-blocking, not a dead link.

  • 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 the 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, Legacy Ridge Dentistry is the clearest option inside the Westminster city limits: two dentists matched to two clean state licences issued a week apart in 2007, with the register confirming both degrees. For the longest clean record in the city and the strongest agreement between a published biography and a state file, Westminster Dental Arts Group on Lowell Boulevard has held a licence without board action since 1988, alongside a second dentist licensed in 2018 whose dental school and graduation year the register corroborates. Bennett Dental Group offers a second two-licence practice with both dental schools named and the fullest local history published anywhere in this screen. If surgical and reconstructive work is what you need, Standley Shores Dental Group keeps two clean licences on the schedule and its founder's account survives contact with the register. For same-day restorations made on the premises, Monarch Family Dental publishes an in-house laboratory and a school and year for each dentist, and for the widest weekday window, Peak Family Dentistry & Orthodontics runs a Wednesday to six in the evening.

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 Westminster and establish which county it falls in, since the ZIP code will not tell you and the two answers disagree along Sheridan Boulevard. Then 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. Two 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.