Dr. Mark R Pasternak

Dr. Mark Pasternak
A visit with Dr. Mark, as he is affectionately known to patients and staff, can feel more like a visit with a member of your family than a visit with your dentist. He is just as likely to sit and chat with you as he is to
examine your mouth.
Yet his attention to the condition of your teeth and gums is second to none and he is scrupulously meticulous in his care.
A dedicated professional, Dr. Mark wanted to be a dentist ever since he was in high school, thanks to the inspiration of a close family friend and periodontist.
Following graduation from the University of Denver with a bachelor of science degree in biology and chemistry, Dr. Mark married his college sweetheart, Linda, and was off to Tufts University School of Dentistry in Boston.
After earning his doctor of dental medicine degree and starting his family, he returned to Denver in 1986 to begin practicing the profession he loved. In 1987, he bought the practice of Dr. Daniel Vedder in Aurora, where he …practiced until moving to Englewood with Dr. Kendig.
In the past two decades plus, Dr. Mark's patients have literally become a second family to him and he has treated many generations of patients. I love getting to know and treating families over a long period of time — watching them grow up and bring in their children, he says.
Dr. Mark has strived to establish a traditional family practice that meets
current expectations and modern standards of care. He enjoys the challenge
of treating a wide variety of patients from two to 92 and there is no dental
service he will not provide for them.
He loves everything he does — children's dentistry, fillings, crowns,
cosmetics, dentures, endodontics, surgery and implants. His standards are
high — no treatment is complete until he has personally seen to it that it
meets with his total satisfaction.
A dedicated husband and father, Dr. Mark devotes as much time to his family
as he does to his patients. When he's not in the office, you can find Dr.
Mark with Linda, an eighth grade teacher at Cherry Creek School District's
Campus Middle School and their three children. Mike, 24, is in his second
year of law school at the University of San Francisco. Tim, 20, is a junior
at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he is studying theatre in the College of Arts and Sciences. Emily, 18, is a freshman psychology major at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Active members of Greenwood Community Church, both Dr. Mark and Linda have
been leaders for the Christian youth groups, Wild Life and Young Life.
Through the years, they have also been Scout leaders, leaders for Indian
Guides and Princesses and Dr. Mark has coached his sons' sports teams. In
2007, Linda and Emily traveled to Kenya on a mission.
Avid outdoor people, the family enjoys hiking, downhill skiing, snowshoeing,
water skiing, tennis and sea kayaking. Dr. Mark, Mike and Tim are certified
SCUBA divers — Linda and Emily are becoming certified.
Family vacations often find them at a cottage Dr. Mark's grandfather built
on an Atlantic beach in southern Rhode Island. Perhaps their favorite trips
were an adventure to New Zealand to visit friends on an exchange program,
and a church mission to Juarez, Mexico with several other families to build
a house.
As he does for his own family, Dr. Mark wants nothing but the best for his
patient family and will take the time to deliver it with the same kindness
and care — along with a visit to catch up with your life.
Dr. Pasternak is active in numerous professional dental associations,
including the Metropolitan Denver Dental Society and the Colorado and American Dental Associations.