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Top 6 Med Spas in Cherry Creek (2026)

Ranked on the one thing a storefront cannot borrow: the named clinician who is medically answerable for the work, and what Colorado's own licence file says about them.

There are more med spas in Cherry Creek than in any comparable stretch of Colorado. The Cherry Creek North business improvement district advertises 30-plus spas and fitness centres among the 175-plus small businesses packed into its 16 blocks, and that count stops at the district boundary: it excludes the medical suites stacked in the towers along East 1st Avenue and the second cluster of practices strung along Cherry Creek Drive south of the water. Walk ten minutes in any direction from Fillmore Plaza and you will pass a dozen doors offering the same three neurotoxins, the same hyaluronic acid fillers, and the same handful of laser platforms. When the menus converge, the marketing stops carrying information, and the only remaining signal is who is medically responsible when something goes wrong.

That question has a documented answer, and it is free to look up. Colorado issues no med spa licence to any business, here or anywhere else in the state. What it licenses is people: physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, registered nurses, physician assistants, each by name and number. The Colorado Medical Board's Rule 800 framework classifies the core Cherry Creek menu, injections of any substance and the tissue-altering energy devices, as the practice of medicine, which means the work has to be performed or delegated by a licensed practitioner. House Bill 25-1024, signed 7 April 2025, went a step further and required practitioners who hand medical-aesthetic work to unlicensed staff to say so out loud: signage in the office, notice on the website and in advertising, and informed consent naming the delegating practitioner.

So every practice below cleared the same gate before anything else was weighed. It publishes the name of the clinician standing behind its procedures, and that person appears as currently licensed in the file the Division of Professions and Occupations releases through the Colorado Information Marketplace, the record carrying licence type, number, status, first-issue date, and expiry. Ten practices were screened for this page and six cleared it: five physician licences and two advanced practice nursing registrations were read out of the state file, and no clinician named here carries a disciplinary entry in it. Four practices were dropped, all for the same reason, which is worth stating plainly because it is the most common failure in this district: a polished site, a real Cherry Creek address, and not one licensed human being named anywhere on it. Nothing on this page assesses outcomes, results, or price.

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A Clinician You Can Name
The practice publishes the name of the physician or advanced practice nurse medically answerable for its procedures
02
Licence Read in the State File
That person's licence type, number, status, first-issue date, and expiry confirmed in DORA's published licensee record
03
Clean Disciplinary Record
No board action, stipulation, or letter of admonition attached to the named clinician in the state file
04
An Address, Not a Catchment
A published street address inside Cherry Creek North or on the Cherry Creek Drive corridor, with the side of the creek stated
05
Who Actually Holds the Needle
Whether the practice says in public which role performs each procedure, rather than leaving the delegation chain implicit
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Credential Claims That Survive Reading
Whether a stated certification names its board, and whether that board is an ABMS member board
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Aesthetic Surgery & Dermatology of Cherry Creek

3300 E 1st Ave, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80206 · Cherry Creek North
Dermatologist Injects Colorado Licence Since 1990

The practice on the fourth floor at 3300 East 1st Avenue tells you what it is on its own home page: not a typical med spa, a dedicated medical practice. The menu says otherwise, or rather says both. Botox, fillers, Sculptra, Kybella, microneedling, Fraxel, laser resurfacing, CoolSculpting Elite, Emsculpt Neo, laser hair removal. That is a med spa menu by any working definition, delivered inside a dermatology office, and the difference shows up in the staff list rather than the price list. The practice publishes exactly three providers: Adrienne Stewart, M.D., and two aestheticians, Willa Roberts and Mia Kallevik. There is no nurse injector layer, no laser technician tier, no delegation chain to trace, because there is nobody for the physician to delegate injections to. She does them.

Her bio backs that with specifics rather than adjectives: more than 29 years in medical and cosmetic dermatology, more than 25 years performing injections, years spent teaching cosmetic dermatology injection technique at the University of Colorado in Denver, and continuing cadaver coursework on injection anatomy. The state file is the strongest on the page in one particular respect. Adrienne Elizabeth Stewart of Denver holds physician licence DR 30356, Active, first issued 12 July 1990 and current to 30 April 2027, and it is still a Colorado DR licence: unlike four of the five physicians further down this page, she has never converted to the interstate compact credential, so the record shows 36 unbroken years under Colorado's own number. The one gap worth naming is the same one that runs through this whole district. Her pages say board-certified dermatologist and stop there, without naming the American Board of Dermatology, which is the ABMS member board for the specialty and takes about a minute to confirm through the ABMS verification service.

Named Clinician
Adrienne Stewart, M.D., the only physician on a published provider list of three, alongside two aestheticians
Licence Read in the State File
DR 30356, Active, first issued 12 July 1990, current to 30 April 2027, held continuously as a Colorado physician licence rather than converted to the interstate compact
Disciplinary Record
No case number, board action, or discipline date attached to the record in DORA's licensee file
Stated Experience
More than 29 years in medical and cosmetic dermatology, more than 25 years injecting, and years teaching injection technique at the University of Colorado in Denver, per the practice's own bio
Credential Gap
The site says board-certified dermatologist without naming the American Board of Dermatology; confirm it yourself through the ABMS verification service
Published Contact
3300 E 1st Ave, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80206 · 303-333-6060
No Delegation Chain to Trace Longest Unbroken Colorado Licence Here Provider List Published in Full Cherry Creek North Address
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Jack Zamora MD Cosmetic Surgery and Aesthetics

2717 E 3rd Ave, Denver, CO 80206 · Cherry Creek North
Two Named Physicians Delegation Published by Role

This is the most legible staffing page in the district, and legibility is the whole criterion. The team page does not merely list people, it assigns them function: Jack Zamora, M.D. as owner, oculofacial plastic surgeon, and medical director; Mary-Margaret Kober, M.D. as physician injector and the clinician performing advanced laser resurfacing; and then Alejandra, Alyn, and Sarah named individually as cosmetic injectors, one an aesthetic physician associate and two paramedical aestheticians. A reader can look at that page and work out, before booking, which tier of the practice is likely to be holding the syringe. Colorado's 2025 disclosure law exists to make exactly that answerable at the front desk. Publishing it unprompted is a different order of transparency.

Both physicians resolve in the state record, and both records carry a useful corroboration. Jack Anderson Zamora of Denver first took Colorado physician licence DR 42961 on 27 August 2004 with the specialty recorded as ophthalmology, converted it to the interstate compact credential on 10 October 2024, and now holds CDRH 42961, Active to 30 April 2027. His training history matches: a Tulane medical degree, an internal medicine internship at Boston Medical Center, an ophthalmology residency at Boston University, and an oculoplastics fellowship there. Mary-Margaret Therese Kober of Denver first took DR 63165 on 26 August 2019 with the specialty recorded as dermatology, converted on 5 July 2023, and holds CDRH 63165, Active to the same date. Her stated training is an ACGME dermatology residency at SUNY Downstate where she was chief resident, an ASDS cosmetic dermatologic surgery fellowship, and an ACGME fellowship in micrographic surgery and dermatologic oncology. Neither bio names a certifying board. Kober's page carries FAAD, which is fellowship in the American Academy of Dermatology, a professional society rather than the certifying body; the ABMS member board for the specialty is the American Board of Dermatology. Ask, and verify through ABMS. That single omission is what keeps a practice with this much documented training out of the top position.

Named Clinicians
Jack Zamora, M.D., named on the team page as owner, oculofacial plastic surgeon, and medical director; Mary-Margaret Kober, M.D., named as physician injector
Licence Read in the State File
Zamora: DR 42961 first issued 27 August 2004, specialty ophthalmology, transferred to the compact 10 October 2024, now CDRH 42961, Active to 30 April 2027. Kober: DR 63165 first issued 26 August 2019, specialty dermatology, transferred 5 July 2023, now CDRH 63165, Active to 30 April 2027
Disciplinary Record
Neither physician carries a case number, board action, or discipline date in DORA's licensee file
Who Holds the Needle
The team page names three cosmetic injectors individually, one aesthetic physician associate and two paramedical aestheticians, alongside Dr. Kober as physician injector
Credential Gap
Neither bio names a certifying board; FAAD denotes American Academy of Dermatology fellowship, not board certification, and the ABMS board for the specialty is the American Board of Dermatology
Published Contact
2717 E 3rd Ave, Denver, CO 80206 · 303-780-7377
Injectors Named Individually by Role Two Physicians, Two Active Licences Residency Specialties Corroborated by the State Record Cherry Creek North Address
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VITAHL Medical Aesthetics

251 Steele St, Suite 100, Denver, CO 80206 · Cherry Creek North
Physician Owned On Steele Street Since 2005

Twenty-one years on the same block is an unusual thing in Cherry Creek North, where lease turnover is the district's other constant. VITAHL dates its Steele Street opening to September 2005 on its own pages, and the founder who opened it, Dr. Tahl N. Humes, is still named as owner, operator, and medical director. The practice is also one of the few here that describes its own labour division without being asked: onsite physicians working with nurses, aestheticians, and laser specialists. That sentence is doing real work, because it tells a reader that the physician is not necessarily the person performing their treatment, which is the disclosure Colorado's 2025 law is built around.

The state file adds depth the practice's own pages leave out. Tahl Nathalie Humes of Denver appears three times: a training licence, TL 201, issued 7 August 2002 against an internal medicine residency; full Colorado physician licence DR 42583, first issued 10 May 2004 with the specialty recorded as internal medicine; and the interstate compact credential CDRH 42583, Active since 23 September 2019 and current to 30 April 2027. In other words her Colorado record begins in 2002, not 2019, and the compact number that appears in a casual search is the most recent chapter rather than the whole book. The internal medicine specialty is independently consistent with the fellowships her site lists, in the American College of Physicians alongside the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery and the American Medical Association. What the site does not do is name a certifying board behind the phrase board certified physician, and aesthetic medicine has no ABMS member board of its own, so that phrase resolves to whatever specialty she was certified in rather than to aesthetics. Ask which one. The practice publishes client testimonials but no aggregate rating, and it now runs locations in Chicago and Nashville from the Denver original.

Named Clinician
Dr. Tahl N. Humes, named on the practice's own team page as founder, owner, and medical director
Licence Read in the State File
CDRH 42583, Active, issued 23 September 2019, current to 30 April 2027, preceded by Colorado physician licence DR 42583 first issued 10 May 2004 in internal medicine and training licence TL 201 issued 7 August 2002
Disciplinary Record
No case number, board action, or discipline date attached to any of the three records in DORA's licensee file
Who Holds the Needle
The site states that onsite physicians work with nurses, aestheticians, and laser specialists, without assigning named individuals to procedures
Credential Gap
Board certified physician is stated without naming the board; aesthetic medicine has no ABMS member board, so the certification sits in some other specialty
Published Contact
251 Steele St, Suite 100, Denver, CO 80206 · 303-388-7380
Twenty-One Years at One Cherry Creek Address Founder Still the Named Medical Director Colorado Record Runs Back to 2002 Labour Division Stated in Public
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Facial Aesthetics

220 Josephine St, Suite 200, Denver, CO 80206 · Cherry Creek North
In Cherry Creek Since 1992 Earliest Licence on This Page

The oldest paper trail in this ranking by a margin of seventeen years belongs to the practice above the 2nd and Josephine parking garage. Facial Aesthetics dates its Cherry Creek clinic to 1992 and names its founder without hedging: Dr. John A. Grossman, M.D., a board-certified plastic surgeon, alongside co-founder Pamela Hill-Grossman, RN, CANS, a certified aesthetic nurse specialist. John Alan Grossman of Denver first took Colorado physician licence DR 18139 on 10 July 1973, with the specialty recorded as plastic and cosmetic surgery, transferred it to the interstate compact on 8 August 2023, and holds CDRH 18139, Active to 30 April 2027. Fifty-three years of continuous Colorado licensure, no disciplinary entry in the state file. Nothing else on this page comes close on longevity.

What holds it at fourth is a deliberate editorial choice the practice has made and published. Its about page states that patients may see different faces across its locations and that what stays constant is the standard rather than the individual, and it names no provider beyond the two founders. That is a coherent philosophy for a nine-clinic group spanning Colorado and Arizona, and it is precisely the opposite of what this ranking measures. A reader booking an injection at Josephine Street cannot learn from the site who will perform it or under whose delegation, and the founding physician's licence, however venerable, does not answer that question for a specific appointment at a specific branch. One further note on precision: the practice publishes no licence number for its co-founder, and while a Pamela K. Hill of Denver holds registered nurse licence RN 56996, Active and first issued 3 September 1976, we could not tie that record to her by anything stronger than a name, so we report it as a match rather than a confirmation. Ask at the desk who is delegating your treatment; since April 2025 they are obliged to tell you.

Named Clinician
Dr. John A. Grossman, M.D., named as founder and board-certified plastic surgeon; Pamela Hill-Grossman, RN, CANS, named as co-founder
Licence Read in the State File
Grossman: DR 18139 first issued 10 July 1973, specialty plastic and cosmetic surgery, transferred to the compact 8 August 2023, now CDRH 18139, Active to 30 April 2027, the earliest first-issue date on this page
Disciplinary Record
No case number, board action, or discipline date attached to either of Dr. Grossman's records in DORA's licensee file
Who Holds the Needle
Not published. The about page states patients may see different faces across locations and names no provider beyond the two founders
Editorial Note
A Pamela K. Hill of Denver holds RN 56996, Active, first issued 3 September 1976; the practice publishes no licence number, so treat that as a name match rather than a confirmed identity
Published Contact
220 Josephine St, Suite 200, Denver, CO 80206 · 303-377-2868
Physician Licence Active Since 1973 Cherry Creek Clinic Since 1992 Founding Surgeon Named Outright Cherry Creek North Address
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Onyx Med Spa Cherry Creek

255 Detroit St, Unit 200, Denver, CO 80206 · Cherry Creek North
Nurse Practitioner Founded Prescriptive Authority Verified

Two of the six practices here are led by an advanced practice registered nurse rather than a physician, and Colorado law makes that a legitimate structure rather than a shortcut. An APRN holding prescriptive authority may perform medical-aesthetic services under her own licence and may delegate them, and HB25-1024 names advanced practice registered nurses alongside physicians as the practitioners who owe patients a disclosure when they do. Onyx opened its Detroit Street location as a second site of a Broomfield original, and it names its founder plainly: Amanda Ferguson, MSN, FNP-C. The state file carries an Amanda Ferguson of Superior, consistent with the practice's Broomfield roots, under three current credentials: advanced practice registration APN 994342, Active and first issued 3 December 2018 with the role recorded as family; registered nurse licence RN 1658890, Active and first issued 30 November 2018; and prescriptive authority RXN 103693, Active and first issued 3 December 2018. No disciplinary entry attaches to any of them.

Two things put it fifth. The practice publishes no licence number of its own, so the match above rests on name and geography rather than a number the practice stands behind, and it names no collaborating physician and no clinician beyond the founder. For a menu that runs heavily toward prescriptive wellness, peptide therapy, hormone and women's health services, and medically supervised weight management alongside the injectables and microneedling, the prescriptive-authority record is the load-bearing credential, and it currently rests on one named individual. One practical note a reader can act on: all three of those credentials carry an expiry of 30 September 2026, so anyone booking after that date should re-run the check rather than trusting this page. That is not a criticism, it is the ordinary Colorado nursing renewal cycle, and it is exactly why the two-minute lookup belongs to you rather than to us.

Named Clinician
Amanda Ferguson, MSN, FNP-C, named on the practice's own Cherry Creek page as founder
Licence Read in the State File
APN 994342, Active, first issued 3 December 2018, role recorded as family; RN 1658890, Active, first issued 30 November 2018; prescriptive authority RXN 103693, Active, first issued 3 December 2018. All three expire 30 September 2026
Disciplinary Record
No case number, board action, or discipline date attached to any of the three records in DORA's licensee file
Who Holds the Needle
Not published beyond the founder; the site names no collaborating physician and no medical director
Editorial Note
The practice publishes no licence number, so the match above rests on name and location rather than a figure the practice stands behind. Re-check after 30 September 2026
Published Contact
255 Detroit St, Unit 200, Denver, CO 80206 · 720-619-3408
Founder Named and Licence-Matched Prescriptive Authority on Record Cherry Creek North Address APRN Structure Recognised Under HB25-1024
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HD Aesthetic Wellness

950 S Cherry St, Suite 1675, Denver, CO 80246 · South of the creek
Nurse Practitioner Owned Certification Matches the State Record

The newest practice on this page is also the one whose stated credential matches the state file most exactly, which is a rarer thing in this district than it should be. Hannah Davidson opened HD Aesthetic Wellness in 2022 and lists herself as MSN, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, an adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner. Colorado's licensee record carries Hannah Bradley Davidson under advanced practice registration APN 994704, Active and first issued 13 June 2019, with the practice role recorded in the state's own field as adult gerontology primary care. Prescriptive authority RXN 104013 carries the same date and the same recorded role, and registered nurse licence RN 1658899 runs back to 30 November 2018. Where most Cherry Creek sites offer a credential abbreviation the state file cannot confirm, this one offers a credential the state file spells out in the same words. No disciplinary entry attaches to any of the three.

Her bio is also specific about the part of her career that is not aesthetic: an Ohio State nursing qualification, more than fifteen years in health care beginning as a patient care assistant and phlebotomist, cardiac and oncology critical care as a registered nurse, and a continuing inpatient and outpatient practice in haematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplant in Denver. The practice names a second clinician too, Isa Tomlinson, BSN, RN, as nurse injector; an Isabella Noelle Tomlinson of Denver appears in the state file under RN 1693282, Active, first issued 31 October 2023, which we report as a name match. It sits sixth on two counts rather than on any weakness of licensure. The Suite 1675 address at 950 South Cherry Street is in ZIP 80246, on the corridor south of the creek, a drive rather than a walk from the Cherry Creek North retail blocks. And with a 2022 founding it has the shortest operating record here by fourteen years, with no physician named and no aggregate review figure published. Like Onyx, all three of its nursing credentials expire 30 September 2026.

Named Clinician
Hannah Davidson, MSN, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, named on the practice's own site as owner; Isa Tomlinson, BSN, RN, named as nurse injector
Licence Read in the State File
APN 994704, Active, first issued 13 June 2019, role recorded as adult gerontology primary care; RXN 104013, Active, same date and role; RN 1658899, Active, first issued 30 November 2018. All three expire 30 September 2026
Disciplinary Record
No case number, board action, or discipline date attached to any of the three records in DORA's licensee file
Credential Match
The stated AGPCNP-BC certification matches the adult gerontology primary care role recorded against her registration in the state's own field, the closest name-to-record match on this page
Geography
950 S Cherry St is in ZIP 80246 on the corridor south of the creek, not inside the Cherry Creek North district
Published Contact
950 S Cherry St, Suite 1675, Denver, CO 80246 · 720-926-3522
Stated Certification Confirmed in the State Field Prescriptive Authority on Record Second Injector Also Named Critical-Care Nursing Background Stated

Frequently Asked Questions

Do med spas in Cherry Creek hold a Colorado licence of their own?

No. Colorado issues no med spa licence to any business, in Cherry Creek or anywhere else in the state. What the state licenses is individual people. The Colorado Medical Board's Rule 800 framework classifies the services that make up the standard Cherry Creek menu, injections of any substance into the body and the laser, light, and radio-frequency devices that alter human tissue, as the practice of medicine, which means they must be performed or delegated by an appropriately licensed practitioner. The shopfront on Detroit Street or Josephine Street holds no credential of its own. The only licence that exists is the one attached to a named clinician, which is why every listing on this page leads with a person rather than a business.

What does "Compact Physician" mean on a Colorado licence record?

It means the physician moved their Colorado licence onto the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which lets qualifying doctors obtain licences in participating states through an expedited route while keeping one state as their principal licensing home. In DORA's file the original Colorado licence then shows a status of Transferred to Compact Physician, and a new record appears with a CDRH prefix carrying the same number. The practical trap is that the compact record's issue date is the date of the transfer, not the date the physician was first licensed in Colorado, so a casual search can make a thirty-year practitioner look newly qualified. Four of the five physicians on this page hold compact credentials, and in each case we have cited both the compact record and the original Colorado licence behind it.

Can a nurse practitioner legally run a Cherry Creek med spa without a physician?

Yes, within limits set by her own licence. An advanced practice registered nurse who holds prescriptive authority may perform medical-aesthetic services under her own authority in Colorado and may delegate them downward, and House Bill 25-1024 explicitly names advanced practice registered nurses alongside physicians as the practitioners who owe patients a disclosure when they delegate medical-aesthetic work to someone who is not a licensed health care provider. Two practices on this page are structured that way, and both have their registration and prescriptive authority confirmed in the state file. What the structure does mean is that the delegation chain for every other person in the building rests on one publicly named licence, so it is worth asking who is delegating your specific treatment.

How do I check a Cherry Creek med spa's clinician in DORA's records myself?

There are two free routes and neither takes long. The Division of Professions and Occupations runs a public licence lookup where you can search a clinician by name and see licence type, number, status, and disciplinary history. Separately, DORA publishes its complete licensee file as an open dataset on the Colorado Information Marketplace at data.colorado.gov, refreshed nightly, searchable by surname, and returning licence type, number, status, first-issue date, expiry, and any case number or board action in a single record. That second route is the one every licence figure on this page was read from. Search the surname, confirm the first name and city match the clinician you were given, and check that the status field says Active and that no case number appears.

Does "board certified" on a Cherry Creek med spa website mean an ABMS board?

Not necessarily, and in this district the phrase is used far more often than the board behind it is named. Certification by a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties, such as the American Board of Dermatology or the American Board of Plastic Surgery, follows an accredited residency and a formal examination, and can be confirmed in about a minute through the ABMS verification service. Many other organisations also issue certificates using the same two words, and aesthetic medicine itself has no ABMS member board at all, so a physician certified in aesthetics is certified by something else. Not one of the six practices on this page names its certifying board on the pages we read. Treat the phrase as an invitation to ask which board and in which specialty, then check the answer.

What does the FDA say to ask before getting filler or a laser treatment?

The FDA is blunt about the framing: having dermal filler injected should be treated as a medical procedure, not a cosmetic appointment. Its guidance recommends seeking a licensed health care provider with experience in dermatology or plastic surgery, asking directly about that person's training and experience injecting filler in the specific area being treated, and understanding that the most serious risk is unintended injection into a blood vessel, which can cause tissue death, vision problems including blindness, or stroke. Because the agency approves particular fillers for particular facial and hand indications, it is also worth asking whether the product proposed for you is approved for that use rather than merely approved in general. The American Society for Dermatologic Surgery gives parallel advice for injectables: choose a board-certified specialist rather than a device or a price.

Sources & References

  • Colorado Information Marketplace (data.colorado.gov) Professional and Occupational Licenses in Colorado — licensee dataset (7s5z-vewr)

    DORA's own licensee file, published as open data and refreshed nightly. Every licence type, number, status, first-issue date, expiry, and disciplinary field cited in the listings above was read from this dataset through its public API. DORA's interactive lookup portal blocks automated requests; verify individual records by hand in a browser.

  • Colorado General Assembly HB25-1024 — Medical-Aesthetic Services Delegation Disclosures

    The 2025 law, signed 7 April 2025, requiring physicians and advanced practice registered nurses to disclose to patients when they delegate medical-aesthetic services to unlicensed individuals. Backs the delegation-disclosure framing in the introduction, the listings, and the FAQ.

  • American Med Spa Association (AmSpa) New Colorado Law Adds Med Spa Disclosures

    The industry association's analysis of HB25-1024 and of Colorado Medical Board Rule 800, including the three required disclosures: office signage, website and advertising notice, and retained informed consent. Backs the Rule 800 practice-of-medicine framing used throughout.

  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration Dermal Fillers (Soft Tissue Fillers)

    The FDA's guidance that filler injection is a medical procedure, its advice to seek a licensed provider experienced in dermatology or plastic surgery, and its description of vascular-occlusion risk. Backs the FDA answer in the FAQ.

  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration Aesthetic (Cosmetic) Devices

    The FDA's overview of laser, light, and energy-based aesthetic devices and of what clearance for an indication does and does not establish. Backs the device-related guidance in the evaluation criteria and FAQ.

  • American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Verify Certification

    The public service for confirming a physician's ABMS board certification. Backs the distinction this page draws between ABMS member boards, professional-society fellowships such as FAAD, and other bodies using the phrase board certified.

  • American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS) Injectable Treatments — patient information

    Specialty-society patient guidance recommending a board-certified specialist for injectable treatments. Backs the practitioner-qualification guidance in the FAQ.

  • Cherry Creek North Business Improvement District Cherry Creek North — district overview

    The district's own published counts: 16 blocks, 175-plus small businesses, and 30-plus spas and fitness centres. Backs the district-density and geography claims in the introduction.

Our Recommendation

This page is not medical advice and cannot stand in for it. Nothing here evaluates whether any treatment is right for you, and no listing should be read as an endorsement of a procedure, a device, or a result. Aesthetic medicine carries real risk, that risk is specific to the person taking it, and the only one who can assess yours is a licensed clinician who has examined you.

Inside that limit the ranking makes a narrow, checkable claim about six practices. Aesthetic Surgery & Dermatology of Cherry Creek publishes a provider list of three, one of them a dermatologist licensed in Colorado without interruption since 1990 who does the injecting herself. Jack Zamora MD names two physicians and then names its injectors individually by role, which is the most legible staffing page in the district. VITAHL pairs a physician owner with twenty-one years at one Steele Street address and a Colorado record running back to a 2002 training licence. Facial Aesthetics carries the earliest licence here, first issued in 1973, and the deliberate decision not to name providers that keeps it from ranking higher. Onyx and HD Aesthetic Wellness are the district's two nurse-practitioner-led options, each with registration and prescriptive authority confirmed in the state file, and each resting that authority on a single named licence.

Then do the check yourself, because it is genuinely two minutes. Ask for the responsible clinician's full name, search it in DORA's licence lookup or the open licensee dataset, confirm the status reads Active, and confirm no case number is attached. Four of the ten practices screened for this page could not be listed because no licensed person was named anywhere on their sites. In a district with a med spa on every block, being able to name one is the first filter, not the last.

Denver Dean's List maintains editorial independence. We do not accept payment for rankings or accept advertising from the companies we evaluate. This page is journalism, not medical advice. Rankings reflect publicly verifiable credentials and licensure records only; they make no assessment of clinical outcomes, treatment suitability, or safety. Licence status changes, and several credentials cited here renew in September 2026, so verify any practitioner's current standing with the Colorado Division of Professions and Occupations before making a decision.