Our promise is to provide the highest quality care possible for each patient, delivered with compassion and empathy. We use the highest quality equipment and materials, we plan to provide adequate time for each procedure including patient education and management, we strive to keep at the forefront of continuing education within the dental profession, and we treat each patient as we would treat our own family members.

Our treatment philosophy is that our patients should be provided with choices in treatment options and restorative materials used. We are skilled in the use of all types of restorative materials that have been evaluated and approved by the ADA. And we pride ourselves on being among the most well educated dental providers in our region. This allows us to offer our patients treatments that are best suited for them at the high quality they deserve.

We are located at 210 South Fifth Street in Burlington, Iowa. Many Burlington residents will remember this as the former site of St. Francis Hospital. Dr. Amy Groeltz and her husband, Martin, purchased the property in 2006 and construction of the current building began shortly after. Smile Shoppe opened for business in 2007. All our operatories have large windows facing the Mississippi River or downtown Burlington. Kids of all ages enjoy viewing trains, barges, bald eagles, bridge construction, and Burlington's steeplescape from here. From our outdoor waiting room some of Burlington's most well know landmarks can be seen including Snake Alley and the Great River Bridge. We are proud to practice on this beautiful Burlington hillside where we are lucky to have many wonderful members of the community as our patients.

Dr. Amy Groeltz, a graduate of Burlington High School, received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in Biology and received her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Iowa. At the end of her final year in dental school, she received a scholarship to complete her extramural at a dental hospital in London. This allowed her an excellent chance to see rare dental cases, an opportunity to observe a different health care system, and a chance to study with some incredible people. She has also participated in dental mission trips to rural Jamaica and rural Costa Rica. Currently, she is an active member of the American Dental Association, Iowa Dental Association, (g)nathos, local dental societies, and the Academy of General Dentistry. She is a past president of the Prairie Valley Dental Society. She has achieved Fellowship in the Academy of General Dentistry and has recently joined the faculty at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry as a Clinical Professor in the Family Dentistry Department. She is married and has two daughters, one son, and a Labrador Retriever.

I enjoy having dates with my husband, making new discoveries with my children, and playing fetch with our Labrador Retriever. I also enjoy traveling, photography, almost any outdoor sport, cooking, and reading.

Something you may not know about me is that I love to travel but I have a knack for getting into crazy situations. Some of my vacation 'highlights' include getting stung multiple times by a smack of jellyfish, having my hand sliced by a mountain gorilla in Rwanda, hanging upside down from a bridge above the Zambezi, being charged by an angry bull elephant, bruising myself cliff jumping, getting shocked by a fence meant to contain chimpanzees, being bucked off then stepped on by a horse, and unintentionally swimming several class V whitewater rapids. Since we have had children, though, vacations have become much tamer and most of the animals we see are in cages at a zoo.