Colorado Smiles

Wendy handles all things office (can I get a snap-snap-snap in a z-formation). She's our most senior staff member - no, not in age - but as in years with Colorado Smiles, and can be found doing a myriad of things throughout the day: answering phones, filing insurance claims, watering the front office plant, scheduling patients, picking up the flowers from the local grocer, mapping dental scans, and troubleshooting our technical issues...often all at the same time. She's also a marvelous mom of a fabulous four, a softball second base-woman, an avid NKOTB fan (that's New Kids on the Block to the layman) and a proud proponent - and wearer - of upper ceramic orthodontics. She'll most likely be the smile greeting you upon your arrival, and if there's any question as to which team member she is - she's the one with the cutest hair. If you're ever behind on Montrose news, or any other news for that matter, be sure to ask Wendy. She's a vault of local, domestic and celebrity info.

Jen is the head honcho in our dynamic duo dental partnering team, and the most likely to be the world's first diagnosis for verbal dyslexia. "The runaway tramp ahead is currently occupied; I mean, the runaway truck ramp ahead is currently occupied." Whoa. She commutes to work on her mountain bike the entire nine blocks from her house come hail or high water. She has a mild obsession with flowers, second only to that of Dove dark chocolate bites and their cute little sayings on the inside of the wrappers. She's married to the infamous artistic guru at In Design Signs, Nick, and "supportively" advertises for him in their logo'd PT Cruiser whenever she's running errands. She's probably the most outgoing and friendliest of us all; you can't help but like the girl. We know you'll agree!

Kristen is the quiet one in Op 1; that is unless she's busy calling out what she hopes are all two's and three's during your perio charting. She and Clint are newly newlyweds, and the honeymoon ain't over yet, folks. She very well may be the wittiest wonder on staff. Chances are, if we're all laughing, it's because of something she's been saying. This girl's so comfortable in her own skin that she showed up to her job interview sunburned while still sporting her wristband and t-shirt from the previous days at Country Jam. Her biggest dream at the moment is to one day visit Disneyland's Cinderella store. We're pretty sure it's because she truly is a princess in scrubs disguise. Curious to meet this charming, yet elusive, young lady? She's here Monday through Thursday. Stop on by and say hello. Maybe you can find out what "bluespruce" in her email address means. We're dying to know.

Hmmm...we're still working on Heather's "official title." We're most comfortable at this time leaving it a bit un-coined and in-motion. Actually, if you have any thoughts, please pass them along. She might hold the gold medal in most eclectic background and experience: ag and forestry, teen nonprofit, sports camp, tree nursery, parks and open space, alternative transportation, municipal capital projects, outdoor education, yurts, and now, well...we've recently been dubbing her as an extension of Dr. Clader's prettier half, Karla, and Heather tends to get super nerdy about strategic planning, checklists, and all that jazz. But all that job history doesn't mean she has commitment issues. No siree. She loves being Mrs. Zeilman (pronounced with a long "i"), and has enjoyed settling into her new (ahem, 7th) address in Montrose, just a mere 100m from the office's front porch. She's pretty sure she'll soon have her sprint-to-work-time in under 10 seconds.

She's our most petite power dental partner , yes, it's spelled with one "t", and ends with "any". Brit is the greenest of us all, not just because she's still got her sea legs from her last Bahamas cruise, but mostly because that's what it means to be the newest. She's the ripe, uh, right girl for the job as dental partner, and can be found sitting chair side the doc in the second-to-the-back op while batting what must be a Guinness World Record in eye lash length...and they're hers. Maybe it's the rest of us who are green, as in, green with envy. It's just not fair! Growing up, her pet raccoon tragically ate their family parrot. We're pretty sure that talking about it on long staff road trips has helped her process through the trauma.