At West Arvada Orthodontics, we provide the Highest Quality Individualized Orthodontic Care in Arvada, Colorado. We have built our practice around the patients needs, concentrating on creating a beautiful smile as well as ensuring optimal jaw structure and bite function.
Our knowledgeable staff has expertise in treating kids, teens, adults, and even older adults. We are passionate about improving our patients lives through both Early Treatment and comprehensive orthodontic treatment.
Our orthodontist, Dr. Jennifer Friedman is a compassionate and caring professional who believes that orthodontic treatment is a partnership between the patient and the doctor. She is airway-oriented and has dedicated her career to improving the lives of children by opening the airway. Whether you receive interceptive treatment for kids, Invisalign or 3M Clarity Clear Aligners, traditional metal braces or clear ceramic braces, and are experts accelerated orthodontics (which can cut treatment time by more than half).
Our office features an inviting, family-friendly atmosphere. We provide blankets and pillows and a fully-stocked beverage bar to help you relax in our waiting area. We also invite our youngest patients to enjoy our one-of-a-kind play area.
Our practice is dedicated to offering compassionate, instructive and patient-focused care. When it comes to our youngest patients, Dr. Friedmans treatment philosophy is to provide interceptive orthodontic treatment to growing children to prevent more invasive treatment later.
Dr. Friedman is also passionate about education as a means of empowering families and patients to make the best and most fully informed decisions about their care. The foundation of good oral health is a strong doctor-patient relationship, and we want to earn the trust you place in us.
Dr. Friedman is an experienced orthodontist with a passion for providing excellent, high-quality orthodontic treatment while showing her patients great care and compassion. She prides herself on taking the time to listen to and answer every patients questions or concerns.
She has a special interest in providing Early Orthodontic Treatment for Kids to her growing patients to prevent more invasive treatment in the future. She is also dedicated to helping patients breathe better their entire lives by opening their airways through jaw orthopedics. Her other special interest is to soothe TMJ (jaw joint) or facial pain symptoms that may be caused by the bite via decreasing pressure on the chewing system by improving the bite. Regardless of what the patients unique needs may be, however, Dr. Friedman enjoys working with patients of all ages and backgrounds.
Dr. Friedman stays up-to-date on the latest advancements in order to provide the most current treatment options for her patients. She recognizes that her patients are unique individuals who have placed a great deal of trust in her and her team. That is just one of the many reasons why she values each and every patient relationship. Whether you receive interceptive treatment, comprehensive treatment, Invisalign, braces, oraccelerated orthodontics, Dr. Friedman will have you looking great and feeling great in no time!
Dr. Friedman completed her orthodontic residency, obtaining a Certificate of Orthodontics, in 2010 at the Eastman Institute for Oral Health at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. She received her Doctorate of Dental Medicine (DMD) and Masters of Science in Anatomical and Neurobiological Sciences (MS) in 2008 at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, where she was born and raised. Her B.A. is from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004. Dr. Friedman obtained her Masters degree while performing pioneering research in the Dental Sleep Apnea field. Herbreakthrough research was published in 2009, as well as her research on facial features on airway restrictionhas been quoted over 50 times in subsequent airway research articles. She has lectured to over a dozen dental and orthodontic organizations on airway and sleep apnea topics.
Dr. Friedman grew up immersed in art and music, taking two hours of art every day in high school, playing the viola since she was five years old, and singing soprano in choir from the age of 13. She lives with her husband, Ronen, and her cuddly standard poodle, Lilah, in the mountains of Golden. The three of them enjoy rock climbing together when they get a break from working hard at West Arvada Orthodontics. Dr. Friedman is a member of the American Association of Orthodontists and the American Dental Association.
Dr. Friedman decided she wanted to become a dentist in high school to combine her love of people with her interests in art and medicine. Orthodontics became her passion as a way to improve peoples lives.