Top 10 Wisdom Teeth Removal in Salt Lake City Utah

Losing a back tooth rarely announces itself as a crisis. It is more often a slow accumulation: a root canal that failed, a crown that came off one too many times, a gap you learned to chew around. Then a dentist mentions that the bone underneath is thinning and the neighboring teeth are drifting into the space. That is the conversation that sends most people in Davis County looking for an implant surgeon.

Valley Implants and Oral Surgery is Dr. Travis Sorensen's practice, on the second floor at 625 East 500 South in Bountiful, a block off the 500 South connector that links US-89 with the I-15 interchange. That puts it within roughly ten minutes of Woods Cross, North Salt Lake, Centerville and much of Farmington, without anyone having to cross into Salt Lake traffic. Dr. Sorensen is a board-certified oral surgeon with more than a decade in practice, and the office also runs a second location in Pleasant View, north of Ogden. Weekday hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, with no weekend clinic.

The service list reflects a surgical practice weighted toward implants and reconstruction: implant placement, bone grafting, pre-prosthetic surgery to prepare a ridge for dentures, wisdom tooth extraction, exposure of impacted canines for orthodontic treatment, oral pathology, and platelet-rich plasma and PRF injections for the jaw joint. Low-radiation 3D imaging is used to map nerve position and bone volume before surgery is planned. Sedation is tailored to the procedure and to your medical history rather than offered as a single default setting, and emergency oral surgery is part of what the office covers.

One honest caveat on implants: the surgeon places the fixture, but the crown or bridge that sits on it is usually made by your general dentist, so the total cost is split across two offices and the two quotes need to be added together before you decide anything. Grafting, sinus work and the number of units all move the figure. Ask for the imaging findings in plain language, meaning how much bone is actually there and how close the nerve runs, because that is what determines your plan.

There is a point where fixing teeth one at a time stops making sense. Several failing molars, a partial denture that no longer fits, years of patched restorations, and then a dentist raises the idea of clearing the arch and starting over on implants. It is a heavy conversation, and it belongs with a surgeon rather than with an online cost calculator. The Murray office of Aspire Surgical handles that end of the work.

This location is at 6268 South 900 East, in the stretch where Murray meets Holladay and Cottonwood Heights, minutes from the 6200 South interchange on I-215. That is a short drive from Millcreek, Sandy and the east bench, and a longer one from the west side of the valley. It is one of seven Aspire offices across Utah, alongside Draper, Sandy, Taylorsville, Lehi, Park City and Heber City, so surgeon availability is not confined to a single building. Hours here are compact: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to noon on Friday, and nothing on weekends. Book early in the week if you want any flexibility.

Scope runs from one replacement tooth to a rebuilt arch, with All-on-4 and Teeth-in-a-Day among the protocols used, plus implant-supported bridges and snap-on dentures, bone grafting and sinus lifts, wisdom teeth, impacted canines, gum grafting, oral pathology, TMJ treatment, corrective jaw surgery, facial trauma and sleep apnea surgery. The practice, owned by Dr. Kevin Chad Lambourne, also offers facial cosmetic procedures, which is an unusual pairing to find behind a dental referral and worth knowing about so you can set it aside if it is not why you came. Procedures can be done under sedation or IV sedation, and 3D imaging is used for surgical planning.

Same-day teeth does not mean same-day finished. Full-arch protocols place the implants and fit a provisional bridge in one visit, but that temporary is deliberately lighter than the final prosthesis, and you spend several months on a softer diet while the implants integrate before the definitive bridge is made. Anyone quoting a single date for a finished mouth is skipping the middle of the story.

Some teeth cannot be saved by the dentist who found the problem. A molar splits below the gumline, an impacted wisdom tooth abscesses over a weekend, a failing back tooth needs to come out and be replaced with an implant, and the general practice hands you a referral slip instead of a treatment date. West Valley Oral Surgery is the kind of office that slip points to.

The practice works from 3715 West 4100 South, Suite 150, in the middle of West Valley City rather than on the east bench where most of the county's surgical specialists cluster, which shortens the drive considerably if you live in Kearns, Granger, Hunter, Magna or Taylorsville. Two board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeons, Dr. Brady Jones and Dr. Bentley Anderson, cover the full surgical range: wisdom teeth and other impacted teeth, routine and surgical extractions, dental implants at any scale, single fixtures and All-on-4 arches alike, bone grafting to rebuild a ridge before an implant can be placed, corrective jaw surgery, facial trauma, oral pathology screening and surgical treatment for sleep apnea. Dr. Anderson's focus includes facial trauma and temporomandibular joint reconstruction. The office keeps room for same-day and emergency oral surgery, and runs Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., closed weekends, so a Saturday flare-up means calling Monday morning.

The team works in English, Spanish and Vietnamese, which in this part of the valley is less a marketing line than a practical requirement for explaining a surgical consent form properly. Most dental insurance is accepted, including government plans, and financing is available through CareCredit and ProceedFinance.

Set expectations honestly on implants. A single implant is rarely one appointment: placement, a healing period while bone integrates with the fixture, then the crown, typically spanning several months, and if the site needs grafting first that timeline stretches further. Cost varies with how much rebuilding the bone requires, so a firm number only comes after imaging. What a surgical office can tell you early is whether the tooth can be saved at all, which is a question worth answering before you spend money trying.