Dentists in Bountiful, UT: Local Guide

Quick answer: Bountiful, UT has 78 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 46 are rated on Google, averaging 4.79★ across 8,760 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: BOUNTIFUL ORAL SURGERY, P.C., Jonathan Elmer, Bountiful Dental: Matthew Olsen DMD. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Bountiful is one of the most quietly overachieving dental markets in Utah. Of the 46 practices here that carry a public rating, 37 sit at 4.8 stars or higher — that is four out of every five graded offices clustered in the top tier. The city-wide average lands at 4.79, built on 8,760 Google reviews spread across 78 practices. Only two rated offices in the entire city fall below a 4.0. For a Davis County suburb of this size, that is not a normal distribution; it is a market where being good is simply the price of staying open.

Which flips the usual question on its head. In most cities the challenge is finding a dentist you can trust. In Bountiful, trust is the baseline — the harder job is choosing between a dozen offices that all look excellent on paper. This guide is built around that specific problem: how to separate the practices with a deep review record from the merely well-rated, and how to find the ones that never show up in a Google search at all.

Some context for why this market behaves the way it does. What stands out in the data is the sheer depth of feedback: 8,760 reviews across a city this size works out to a large number of separate ratings per practice, so the averages you see rest on a broad sample rather than a handful of opinions. When a market rewards consistency this heavily, the weak performers don’t linger — which is exactly why only four rated offices in the whole city sit below 4.5.

Why the star rating alone won’t help you here

When 80% of a city’s rated practices already sit above 4.8, the number itself stops being a useful filter. A 4.9 doesn’t distinguish a Bountiful office — it describes almost all of them. What still separates practices is how much evidence sits behind that score. A 4.9 built on 40 reviews and a 4.9 built on 1,100 reviews are not the same signal. The second is averaged over hundreds of ratings, so a single disappointing visit barely registers in it.

That is the lens worth applying in Bountiful: read the rating and the volume together. The offices below don’t just score well — they carry the deepest review histories in the city, which is the closest thing to proof that the 4.8-plus tier is earned rather than early.

A quick way to think about it: divide the city into three groups. There are the high-volume anchors, the practices with four figures of reviews, where the average is settled enough that new reviews barely move it. There is the solid middle — excellent offices with a few hundred reviews that simply haven’t been open as long or don’t chase feedback as aggressively. And there is the invisible tier we’ll come to shortly, the offices with little or no online footprint at all. Most Bountiful patients only ever see the first group. The value of a complete directory is that it shows you all three.

The offices with the deepest track records

These six carry both the ratings and the review volume that hold up under scrutiny. Treat them as your shortlist, not your whole list — but every one has been through hundreds of reviews and kept its standing.

• Creek Capital (Orchard Drive) — 4.9 stars across 1,141 reviews, the single deepest review history in the city. When a practice holds 4.9 over more than a thousand reviews, the score has stopped being luck.
• Millcreek Family Dental PC — 4.9 stars, 663 reviews. A general-family anchor with the volume to back the rating.
• South Davis Pediatric Dentistry — 4.9 stars, 593 reviews. The go-to name if you’re bringing children in; pediatric-specific volume this deep is rare in a market this size.
• Dental Designs of Bountiful — 4.9 stars, 590 reviews. Strong cosmetic and restorative reputation.
• Todd C. Liston DDS, MS, PC — 4.9 stars, 469 reviews.
• Bountiful Oral Surgery, P.C. — a perfect 5.0 across 312 reviews, the highest score of any high-volume surgical office in town.

The half of Bountiful you can’t Google

Here is the market’s real blind spot. Of the 78 practices in Bountiful, only 35 have a working website — fewer than half. That means a straightforward “dentist near me” search quietly hides more than 40 offices. Nothing in our data marks those offices down; we simply have no page from them to show you.

The practical consequence: if you judge Bountiful by search results alone, you’re looking at a heavily filtered slice of the city and mistaking it for the whole. That is exactly the gap the full Bountiful dentist directory is built to close — it lists every practice we can verify, website or not, so the invisible half becomes visible.

There’s a second reason this matters for your wallet. The offices without a website often have lower overhead and, in some cases, more flexibility on out-of-pocket pricing than the polished, marketing-forward practices that dominate the first page of results. That isn’t a rule — a strong web presence says nothing bad about a dentist — but it does mean the sample most people never see is worth a look, especially for routine cleanings and fillings where the clinical work is standardized and the deciding factor is fit, convenience, and cost.

Matching your need to the right specialist

For a city its size, Bountiful is unusually well-covered across the specialties that matter. Cosmetic work and whitening are the deepest benches — 16 cosmetic dentists and 16 whitening providers — which tracks with a market this reputation-conscious. If you’re weighing tooth replacement, 14 implant providers give you real room to compare consultations rather than taking the first quote.

Families are well served: 8 pediatric offices plus 9 orthodontists cover the full childhood-to-teen arc. For gum health there are 11 periodontists. The one category to plan around is urgent care — with only 6 emergency dentists, it’s worth knowing your after-hours option before a Saturday toothache, not during one.

How Dental.me ranks these practices

Every rating and count on this page comes from Google reviews, not paid placement. If you want the methodology behind the ordering — how we weight volume against score and screen out unreliable signals — it’s laid out in how we rank dentists. And because Bountiful sits in a metro where prices vary block to block, it’s worth reading our national guide to dental costs before you commit to a treatment plan.

If Bountiful doesn’t have your match

Bountiful anchors the south end of Davis County, and the surrounding towns share the same high-trust dental culture — a wider net rarely means a drop in quality here. Just north, Woods Cross and North Salt Lake are minutes away; continue up the corridor to Centerville, Farmington, and Kaysville. And for the broadest possible choice, Salt Lake City is a short drive south with the region’s largest concentration of specialists.

Ready to compare in one place? The Bountiful dentist directory puts all 78 practices — the heavily reviewed names and the ones with no website — side by side, so you can filter by specialty, rating, and review depth without piecing it together from a dozen search tabs.

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