Board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Locally born and raised. Eight years of Naval service. Founder of Elite Oral Surgery and Dental Implants in Bonney Lake, Washington.
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Dr. Jonathan Volland was born and raised in the South Sound. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Auburn, then earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, graduating cum laude in 2014. The path that followed took him across the country and back — through dental school in San Francisco, eight years of Naval service spanning surgical residency in Virginia and operational duty in the Pacific — before returning home to Bonney Lake to build a practice rooted in the community where he grew up.
After undergraduate study at PLU, Dr. Volland enrolled at the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco, completing his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in three years rather than the standard four — Dugoni's accelerated curriculum is one of the most demanding programs in dental education. He graduated 7th in a class of 141, earning election to Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the national dental honor society. His dental education was funded through the U.S. Navy Health Professions Scholarship Program in exchange for a service obligation — a deliberate commitment to Naval medicine that began at the start of dental school.
Following dental school, Dr. Volland commissioned as a Naval officer in 2018 and matched into the four-year oral and maxillofacial surgery residency program at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia, one of the most respected OMS training programs in the United States military. The Portsmouth program combines OMS surgical training with rotations on hospital-based services, producing surgeons trained to practice at the intersection of dentistry and medicine. Naval residency counts as active-duty service, beginning his commission as a Naval officer in 2018.
Following residency completion in 2022, Dr. Volland served four additional years on active duty as a commissioned Naval oral and maxillofacial surgeon. From 2022 to 2024 he served aboard the USS Nimitz as the embarked oral and maxillofacial surgeon during deployments and operational training cycles — providing surgical care in the resource-constrained environment of an aircraft carrier underway. The Navy recognized his service with the Navy Commendation Medal and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.
From 2024 to 2026, Dr. Volland held three concurrent attending positions in the Pacific Northwest: adjunct attending at Madigan Army Medical Center, attending oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Naval Hospital Bremerton, and oral surgeon at Naval Air Station Oak Harbor. The combined caseload across these three sites encompassed the full scope of OMS practice — from routine extractions and dental implants in active-duty service members to complex reconstructive surgery, trauma management, and multi-specialty cases requiring close coordination with hospital-based medicine. During this same period, he has also been practicing oral and maxillofacial surgery in private practice in the Pacific Northwest.
He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (board-certified in 2023), the highest credential in the specialty, and an active member of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS), the American Dental Association (ADA), the Washington Dental Association (WDA), and the California Dental Association (CDA).
Elite Oral Surgery and Dental Implants — opening February 2027 in Bonney Lake — represents the practice he envisioned during residency: a single-surgeon, surgery-focused, transparently-priced specialty practice serving the community he grew up in.
I went into oral surgery because it was the only specialty that asked me to combine the three things I cared about: working with my hands, sitting across from real patients in real moments, and the medical depth of operating on the head and neck. A lot of fields will let you do one of those well. Oral and maxillofacial surgery is one of the few that demands all three.
I grew up in the South Sound and went to Thomas Jefferson High School in Auburn. I left for school and the Navy, but the Pacific Northwest was always the end of the story for me. Bonney Lake is where my wife Katrina and I want to spend the next several decades, and Elite Oral Surgery is the practice I always pictured building when I imagined coming home.
What I want patients to know about how I practice: the surgeon you meet at consultation is the surgeon who performs your surgery, and the surgeon who sees you at every follow-up after that. Not a partner. Not a rotating provider. Me. That continuity matters more than people realize until they've experienced its absence — patients who've been bounced between providers at chain implant centers tell me again and again that what they wanted most was a single relationship with the doctor doing their care.
I'm grateful for the Navy years. The training and operational experience aboard the Nimitz, the breadth of cases at Madigan and Bremerton and Oak Harbor — those years made me the surgeon I am. I'm also grateful to have come home. If you and I end up working together at Elite, I hope it's a relationship you find easy to recommend to the people you love.
Election to three honor societies, top-of-class graduation from one of the most rigorous accelerated dental programs in the country, and the Navy's competitive Health Professions Scholarship.
Class rank at the University of the Pacific Dugoni School of Dentistry — top 5% of the graduating class.
National Dental Honor Society. Election by faculty for academic and clinical excellence — limited to top graduates of accredited dental schools.
National Academic Honor Society. Election limited to the top 7.5% of college seniors and top 10% of graduate students nationwide.
Health Professions Scholarship Program — full dental school funding from the U.S. Navy in exchange for service obligation. Highly competitive admission.
Dental fraternity recognizing academic and professional engagement during dental school.
Pacific Lutheran University, 2014. President's Scholarship recipient. Bachelor of Science in Biology with Latin honors.
Research projects completed during dental school at UoP Dugoni and during residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, spanning surgical accuracy, digital treatment planning, behavioral economics in surgery, periodontal microbiology, and pediatric anesthesia technique.
Research projects completed as part of structured dental school and residency academic requirements. Topics span the breadth of clinical OMS practice, from the digital treatment planning workflows that inform contemporary full-arch implant surgery to behavioral and educational research on surgical training itself.
From undergraduate study through accelerated dental school, four-year surgical residency, and eight years of active-duty Naval service.
Active certifications in advanced cardiac, pediatric, and trauma life support, plus the Washington State General Anesthesia Permit that authorizes in-office anesthesia administration by an oral surgeon.
Bonney Lake resident. Pacific Northwest hiker. Ice hockey forward. Husband and dog dad.
Dr. Volland and his wife Katrina live in Bonney Lake with their goldendoodle, Wilfred. Katrina is the reason home is home; Wilfred is the reason morning walks happen even when it's raining sideways — which, if you've lived in the Pacific Northwest, is most mornings between November and April.
Dr. Volland plays adult-league hockey as a forward at Tacoma Twin Rinks. The 9 PM game-time and the early-morning practice schedule are both real commitments he keeps. Hockey is not a hobby for him so much as a structural element of his weekly life — built into his training schedule alongside hiking and the gym.
Like most people who grew up here, Dr. Volland hikes. The Cascades, the Olympics, and the network of trails within a two-hour drive of Bonney Lake are part of the reason he came home. The South Sound is not an interchangeable place to him — it's a specific place that he'd like to keep practicing in for the rest of his career.
For full-arch implants, the consultation is complimentary. For other procedures, a paid consultation is required and a referral from your general dentist is requested. In either case, you'll meet with Dr. Volland personally, review your imaging together, and receive a written treatment plan with itemized pricing before scheduling.