Dentists in Provo, UT: Local Guide

Quick answer: Provo, UT has 92 dental practices in the Dental.me directory. 54 are rated on Google, averaging 4.74★ across 15,851 reviews. Top by independent Dental.me Score: Craig Ririe, Joseph Jeppson, Hammond Aesthetic & General Dentistry. Compare them below and shortlist two or three near you to call.

Provo is not an average dental market, and the numbers make that obvious the moment you look at them. Across the 92 dental practices we track inside the Provo directory, 54 have gathered enough Google review data to earn a rating, and those 54 have pulled in a combined 15,851 reviews — an average of roughly 293 reviews per rated office. For a city of Provo’s size, that is an unusually deep well of public accountability. It means that when you choose a dentist here, you are rarely the first person to walk through the door with an opinion.

But the more striking figure is how the quality clusters. Of the 54 rated practices, 41 sit at 4.8 stars or higher. Only a single office lands in the mediocre 4.0–4.49 band. That is one of the most top-heavy rating curves we see anywhere — a market where excellent is the norm and the real question is not “who is good?” but “which kind of good fits me?” This guide is built entirely from Provo’s own data to help you answer exactly that.

Why Provo’s rating curve is so lopsided

In most cities we profile, ratings spread out into a bell shape — a fat middle of decent offices, a handful of stars, a handful of stragglers. Provo refuses to behave that way. Break the 54 rated practices into bands and the distribution is almost cartoonishly top-loaded:

Read that top bar again: 76% of every rated dentist in Provo scores in the highest band. Practically, this changes your search strategy. In a normal town you screen out the weak offices; in Provo you have the luxury of screening in for fit — location, specialty depth, chairside style, and how a practice treats a nervous patient. The three offices under 4.0 are the rare exceptions worth avoiding, and they are easy to spot because everything around them shines.

A word of caution that Provo’s data quietly reveals: only 41 of the 92 practices maintain a working website. That is well under half. Plenty of highly rated Provo dentists have no website at all — so a thin web presence here is a weak signal of quality, not a strong one. Judge the chair, not the homepage. That is precisely why a directory that aggregates every Provo practice and its real review history beats a Google search that only surfaces the offices with the biggest marketing budgets.

The names with the most Google reviews

Reviews are the closest thing to a public track record a dentist has, and a few Provo offices have built records that dwarf the rest. These are the practices carrying the deepest histories in the city — each one linked to its full profile:

• Larry Braithwaite — 4.9 stars across 1,286 reviews, the single largest body of feedback in Provo.
• Craig Ririe — a flawless 5.0 over 965 reviews, an almost impossible score to hold at that volume.
• Joseph Jeppson — 5.0 stars and 780 reviews, another spotless high-volume record.
• Ninth East Dental — 4.9 stars over 725 reviews, a busy general practice with staying power.
• Den Net, LLC — 4.9 stars across 608 reviews.
• UT OMS Specialty Dental Services — 4.9 stars over 573 reviews, the go-to for oral and maxillofacial surgery cases.

Notice the pattern that makes Provo distinctive: several offices hold a perfect 5.0 not on a dozen reviews, but on hundreds. Ririe and Jeppson together account for over 1,700 five-star reviews without a visible blemish. When you see that combination — top rating and deep volume — you are looking at consistency, not luck.

It is worth putting these numbers in perspective. The six practices above alone hold nearly 5,000 reviews between them — close to a third of the entire city’s Google review data concentrated in a handful of chairs. That concentration tells you something real about how Provo patients behave: they cluster around a small set of trusted names and stay there for years. A first-time patient benefits directly from that loyalty, because a practice does not accumulate a thousand steady reviews by cutting corners. If you are new to town or simply overdue for a checkup, starting your shortlist from this group is the lowest-risk way to walk in confident.

What Provo dentists are built to do

Every dental market has a personality, and Provo’s leans unmistakably toward the cosmetic and elective end of the spectrum. When you count how many practices offer each service, whitening, cosmetic work, and implants dominate the list, while orthodontics runs comparatively thin:

What does that shape mean for you as a patient? If you are after a brighter smile, veneers, or implants, you have your pick — 27 cosmetic practices, 25 implant offices, and 14 whitening providers compete hard for that work, which tends to sharpen both skill and price. Provo also runs deep on gum specialists (18 periodontists), useful for anyone managing gum disease or planning implant foundations.

The flip side: braces and aligners are the market’s thin spot, with just 6 orthodontists and 6 Invisalign providers. That does not mean poor care — it means less choice, so if orthodontics is your reason for searching, book consultations early and be willing to compare with neighboring towns. The same applies to families: with 14 pediatric dentists the coverage is solid but not saturated.

One more read on this chart matters for anyone in pain right now. Provo lists 12 emergency dentists — roughly one in every eight practices lists urgent care among its services. That is enough that you should never sit through a weekend with a cracked tooth, but not so many that any office will do. If a toothache is what brought you here, filter for emergency dentistry first and call ahead to confirm they can see you today; a highly rated practice that can’t fit you in until next week is the wrong practice for an emergency. Endodontists (root canal specialists) and oral surgeons each number six to seven, so the referral network behind those emergencies is present but compact.

A five-step way to actually choose — tuned for Provo

Because nearly everyone here is highly rated, a generic “pick the 5-star office” rule is useless. Use this sequence instead, in this order:

Step 3 deserves emphasis in a town like this. A perfect 5.0 built on 20 reviews is fragile; a 4.9 built on 1,286 reviews — the kind of record Larry Braithwaite holds — is averaged over more than a thousand separate ratings. Volume tells you the average includes the ordinary patient, not just the delighted outlier. For the deeper economics of what these visits cost, our national dental cost guide breaks down typical prices by procedure so you can spot a fair quote from an inflated one.

If Provo doesn’t have what you need, look next door

Utah County is dense with strong practices, and the neighboring cities inherit much of Provo’s quality. This matters most for the thinner specialties — orthodontics especially — where crossing a city line can double your options. Start with Orem directly to the north, then widen to Springville, Pleasant Grove, Lindon, Vineyard, and Proud. Each has its own directory on Dental.me with the same review-backed data you see here.

When you are ready to compare offices side by side — rating, review count, specialty, and website all in one view — the full Provo dentist directory is the fastest way to turn 92 practices into a shortlist of two or three. And if you want to understand exactly how we score and order every practice, our ranking methodology lays out the whole process in plain language.

Dental.me organizes dental directory data so patients can compare offices with confidence. Use each practice profile and its available website, map, and phone details for current appointment, payment, and care decisions.