Implant treatment is several separate pieces of work, which is why two offices can quote the same missing tooth and land nowhere near each other. Tell us what you are dealing with and we will point you to a practice that can examine you and explain it in person.
Nobody can tell you what your case needs from a phone call, including us. That is what the imaging and the exam are for.
Five starting points, from a single gap to a full arch — plus the preparatory work that often has to happen first.
The most common call we take. A single implant is still a sequence: assessment and imaging, placement, healing, then the crown on top. Ask any office which of those their number covers.
Learn more →Where teeth are missing side by side, implants are sometimes used to carry a bridge rather than replacing each tooth individually. Which approach applies to you is decided from imaging, not from a website.
Learn more →Full-arch treatment goes by several marketed names. We describe it generically on purpose: a set of implants supporting a fixed set of teeth across one arch.
Learn more →An overdenture clips onto implants rather than resting on the gums. It still comes out for cleaning — that is the difference between this and fixed full-arch teeth, and it is worth being clear which one you are being quoted.
Learn more →Grafting is preparatory work, not an upsell by default. Where the ridge has thinned or the sinus sits low, there may not be enough bone to place an implant into without building the site first.
Learn more →Three steps, and the first one is just describing the situation in plain terms.
Which teeth, roughly how long they have been missing, and whether anyone has already looked at it. That is all we need. We do not ask for records or history.
Somewhere that handles that kind of case and takes consultations in your part of the valley. We are matching you to a practice, not evaluating your case.
The scan, the exam and the plan happen in the office. Every real answer about your mouth comes from the person looking at it, not from us.
This is the single most common thing people call us confused about, and the explanation is duller than it feels. An implant is not one thing you buy. It is at minimum a surgical placement, a connecting piece, and a crown on top — and often an extraction, a graft, imaging, and a temporary before any of that. When one office quotes the surgery and another quotes the whole sequence, the two figures are describing different amounts of work. They are not competing offers.
So the useful move is not to compare figures. It is to make each office write down what is in the number and what is not. Ask specifically: does this include the extraction, any grafting, the imaging, the abutment, the crown, the temporary, and the follow-up visits. Ask what happens to the figure if the graft turns out to be needed after the scan. An office that will itemize that without irritation is telling you something worth knowing; one that will only give you a single figure is also telling you something.
People arrive expecting to book an appointment the way you book a filling, and the shape of implant treatment is different. Between placing an implant and loading it with a final tooth there is a healing period, because the bone has to integrate with the implant before it can carry a bite. That waiting is the treatment. It is not the office being slow.
Add the steps that can come before it — an extraction that has to heal, a graft that has to mature, a scan that has to be read — and the honest answer to how long this takes is that it depends on your bone, your gums, and what has to happen first. Some cases move faster than others and some involve a temporary tooth in the meantime. What you should be suspicious of is a plan with no waiting in it at all and no explanation of why. Ask any office to walk you through the calendar, step by step, before you agree to the first one.
Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Weber counties.
No. Implant 801 is a referral service that connects Utah patients with dental practices and surgeons who place and restore implants. We do not provide dental care, we do not examine anyone, and nothing on this site is dental advice. Any question about what your mouth needs belongs in a consultation with a licensed provider, not with us.
No, and we would be wary of anyone who answers that over the phone. Candidacy depends on your bone, your gums, your bite and your general health, and it is decided from imaging and an in-person exam. That is the whole point of the consultation. We can get you to one; we cannot substitute for it.
Usually because they cover different amounts of work. Implant treatment is a sequence — assessment and imaging, sometimes an extraction, sometimes a graft, the surgical placement, the connecting piece, the final tooth — and offices quote different portions of it. Ask each office to itemize what is in the figure and what is not. Once you are comparing the same scope, the figures usually make more sense.
We ask what you are dealing with and where in the valley you want to be seen, then connect you with a practice that handles that kind of case. We do not evaluate providers' credentials on your behalf and we do not vouch for any outcome. That is exactly why we tell you what to ask them directly — starting with who is placing the implant, who is restoring it, and how many they place in a month.
That is not what this line covers. Implant 801 handles implant cases specifically; general and cosmetic dentistry is a separate referral line at dental801.com. If you call us with a general dentistry question we will point you there rather than guessing.
Tell us the situation and we will point you to a practice that can examine you and explain the plan in person.
Request a ReferralA rough description is enough — we will follow up to match you with a practice.