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Top Dentists 2012

We teamed up with topDentists to locate Colorado’s 598 best dentists. A healthy smile is just a click away.

Snap, Crack, Pop

As prominent athletes tout the healing powers of sports-medicine procedures, the tools used by the pros and their doctors are trickling down to weekend warriors. But what really works, and what’s nothing more than hype? A look at the front lines of sports medicine in Colorado.

Top Doctors 2011: The List

Our annual, must-have guide to the best physicians—nearly 300 of them in more than 80 medical specialties—in the Mile High City.

Top Dentists 2011

Finding a great dentist can be as challenging as trying to floss each night. Thankfully, we’ve done the hard part for you. 5280 tracked down Colorado’s best dentists—in eight specialties (including orthodontics!)—to keep your pearly whites, well, pearly.

The Primary Problem

Drs. Jennifer McLean and Amy Brown—who live in Denver and Glenwood Springs, respectively—practice in medically underserved areas of our state. It’s not what most doctors would call a choice position. They do it because they love it. But their jobs come with a fringe benefit that might make other would-be docs reconsider the waning career of general practitioner.

A Beautiful Mind

Emotional well-being is a state of health that many of us take for granted. But even the most stable psyche can wobble from time to time. Unfortunately, accessing mental health care can be a frustrating and confusing labyrinth. Here, we give you a basic map for navigating the maze.

Chronic Cure

Medical marijuana is all the rage in Colorado—but does weed actually have medicinal benefits?

Healing Hands

Using perioperative therapy for postoperative pain.

Healing Prose

A Denver woman faces her eating disorder—and lives to blog about it.

The Fear of Food

Denver’s Eating Recovery Center’s new Behavioral Hospital for Children and Adolscents is one of the few of its kind in the country.

Take Off

Colorado-based Flight for Life, one of the world’s most prestigious criticial-care transports, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

Hit The Club

If you like to work out and you like to party, but you don’t want your party to negate your workout, read on: Denver recently became the first U.S. city to launch an almost laughably counterintuitive concept called Fitness Clubbing. Thanks to Bulgarian-born DJ Darina Miteva, all you night-owl club-goers can get your freak on—alcohol-free—while you burn your calories off. Will it catch on? You be the judge.

Take It Easy

A new facility brings elite-level recovery techniques to everyday athletes.

Learned Behavior

How Denver’s brain-training center can change your mind—forever.

Guaranteed Service

Local clinics like Westminster’s Clinica Colorado have an open-door policy—for those without insurance.

Sound Decision

After years of tolerating a hearing disability, a ground-breaking surgery grants one Denverite the tuned-in life she never knew she always wanted.

Healing Art

A local painter fights cancer through her work.

Drink It Up

A local organization makes a global impact with its water sanitation solutions.

Top Doctors 2011: The List

Our annual, must-have guide to the best physicians—nearly 300 of them in more than 80 medical specialties—in the Mile High City.

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