Ft Collins Dentist

Can a ‘Ft Collins Dentist’ be found in Boulder? While it might sound like a contradiction, the fact is that many Ft Collins and northern Colorado residents make the short drive to Boulder for work, shopping, or recreation and find it convenient to combine visits to include dental appointments. For Ft Collins residents in need of a dentist, we call your attention to the practice of Dr. Michael Adler. Located in the nearby community of Boulder the dental office of Dr. Michael Adler provides services to Ft Collins area residents. Adler Cosmetic and Family Dentistry is conveniently located on 30th Street across from the Twenty Ninth Street shopping and entertainment area.

One of the best ways to evaluate a prospective new dentist is to see results from patients. Katie is a patient whose real life story and subsequent dental treatment is profiled below. Katie took a fall while ice skating and damaged several teeth. A large portion of her upper left middle tooth was fractured off and her upper right tooth next to the middle was also chipped.  She immediately sought treatment from Dr. Adler of Adler Cosmetic & Family Dentistry. 

Dr. Adler examined the damaged area using the aid of both x-rays and an interoral camera to help diagnose the multiple fractures that were not apparent to the naked eye. Teeth #7 and 9 were visibly broken so Dr. Adler placed composite bond on the teeth as a temporary solution to restore the aesthetic look of the teeth until permanent restorations could be completed. Tooth #8 did not appear visibly damaged but the interoral camera did reveal that the tooth was fractured. Dr. Adler suspected that the tooth was more heavily damaged than it appeared since the teeth on both sided had visible damage due to the impact. A week after the fall, a portion of tooth #8 broke off due to the trauma it sustained during the accident. Dr. Adler determined that porcelain veneers should be placed on teeth #7-10 to restore Katie’s smile to its original brilliance.

Tooth #10 (upper left tooth, second from the middle) did not have any visible fractures but needed to be restored partly as a precaution since not all damage from a fall is immediately apparent and mostly for aesthetics.  It is recommended that front teeth especially should be restored in sets of two to insure that the patient’s smile remains symmetrical.  Tooth #10 was already shorter than its counterpart #7, so if Dr. Adler was to only restore the teeth that had visible fractures (# 7-9), then tooth #10 would appear short and out of place, giving the patient an uneven smile.

A veneer is a thin shell of porcelain that is bonded to a tooth to improve its color or shape.  A veneer generally covers only the front and top of a tooth.  Veneers can be used to close spaces between teeth, lengthen small or misshapen teeth, or whiten stained or dark teeth.  When teeth are chipped, as in Katie’s case, or beginning to wear, veneers can protect them from damage and restore their original appearance.

Katie’s four upper front teeth were first shaped and roughened to prepare them for the veneers.  Impressions were then taken of the teeth and sent to Aurum Ceramic Dental Laboratory, where the veneers were artistically custom crafted.  Once the veneers had returned from the lab, they were cemented onto Katie’s teeth using a durable adhesive bond.  The bond was then cured with a harmless high-intensity light.  The pain Katie initial experienced from the accident was relieved after the veneers were placed.  The final results were a beautiful and natural looking smile.

About Adler Cosmetic and Family Dentistry
The cosmetic and family dental practice of Dr. Michael Adler is based in the Colorado community of Boulder, a convenient and scenic drive from most locations in the Denver and Front Range areas. Boulder, Colorado is also an inviting destination location for visiting out-of-state patients seeking Dr. Adler’s specialized attention. Dr. Adler is nationally recognized for his work and is committed to providing his patients with the highest level of care in both cosmetic and family dentistry. The practice maintains a website at www.adlerdentistry.com and regularly publishes information on its blog at www.adlerdentistry.com/blog.

Adler Cosmetic and Family Dentistry
1810 30th Street
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: (303) 449-1119

About Ft Collins

Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Fort Collins is located 57 miles (92 km) north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With an estimated 2008 population of 136,509, it is the fifth most populous city in Colorado. Fort Collins is a large college town, home to Colorado State University. It was named Money magazine's Best Place to Live 2006 and #2 in 2008.

Fort Collins was founded as a military outpost of the United States Army in 1864. It succeeded a previous encampment, known as Camp Collins, on the Cache La Poudre River, near present-day Laporte. Camp Collins was erected during the Indian wars of the mid-1860s to protect the Overland mail route that had been recently relocated through the region. Travelers crossing the county on the Overland Trail would camp there, but a flood destroyed the camp in June 1864. Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O. Collins, suggesting that a site several miles further down the Poudre would make a good location for the fort. The post was manned originally by two companies of the 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and never had walls.

Settlers began arriving in the vicinity of the fort nearly immediately. The fort was decommissioned in 1867. The original fort site is now adjacent to the present historic "Old Town" portion of the city. The first school and church opened in 1866, and the town was platted in 1867. The civilian population of Fort Collins, led by local businessman Joseph Mason, led an effort to relocate the county seat to Fort Collins from LaPorte, and they were successful in 1868.

The city's first population boom came in 1872, with the establishment of an agricultural colony. Hundreds of settlers arrived, developing lots just south of the original Old Town. Tension between new settlers and earlier inhabitants led to political divisions in the new town, which was incorporated in 1873. The first classes at the new state agricultural college were held in 1870.

The 1880s saw the construction of a number of elegant homes and commercial buildings and the growth of a distinctive identity for Fort Collins. Stone quarrying, sugar beet farming, and the slaughter of sheep were among the area's earliest industries. Beet tops, an industry supported by the College and its associated agricultural experiment station, proved to be an excellent and abundant food for local sheep, and by the early 1900s the area was being referred to as the "Lamb feeding capital of the world." In 1901 the Great Western sugar processing plant was built in the neighboring city of Loveland.

Although the city was affected by the Great Depression and simultaneous drought, it nevertheless experienced slow and steady growth throughout the early part of the twentieth century. During the decade following World War II, the population doubled and an era of economic prosperity occurred. Old buildings were razed to make way for new, modern structures. Along with revitalization came many changes, including the closing of the Great Western sugar factory in 1955, and a new city charter, adopting a council-manager form of government in 1954. Similarly, Colorado State University's enrollment doubled during the 1960s, making it the city's primary economic force by the end of the century. Fort Collins gained a reputation as a very conservative city in the twentieth century, with a prohibition of alcoholic beverages, a contentious political issue in the town's early decades, being retained from the late 1890s until student activism helped bring it to an end in 1969. During that same period, civil rights activism and anti-war disturbances heightened tensions in the city, including the burning of several buildings on the CSU campus.

During the late 20th century, Fort Collins expanded rapidly to the south, adding new development, including several regional malls. Management of city growth patterns became a political priority during the 1980s, as well as the revitalization of Fort Collins' Old Town with the creation of a Downtown Development Authority. In 2006, Money ranked Fort Collins as the best place to live in America, proclaiming that "great schools, low crime, good jobs in a high-tech economy and a fantastic outdoor life make Fort Collins No. 1." Fort Collins continues to grow in population at a measured pace, with competition from other development in northern Colorado, debate over future growth patterns and town and gown relations emerging as dominant local issues in the early 21st century. Ft Collins information source: Wikipedia.

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