Dentist licence (DDS/DMD)

Zenbat pertsonak daukate hau?

202,485 professionally active dentists in the United States — 2024, the last year in the ADA series, published 2025.

Ez dugu ehuneko bat bihurtzen. We hold a sound count of dentists and a sound count of employed dentists and we are not dividing one into the other, because federal employment data counts employees and most dentists are self-employed practice owners. The ratio would read as though a third of dentists were not working in dentistry, and what it would actually measure is how many of them own the practice rather than being paid by one. Bi zenbakiak bere horretan zuzenak dira, eta biak goian eta behean argitaratuak daude. Zatituz gero, "lantegian lan egiten duten jabeen parte-hartzea" bezalako zenbaki bat lortuko litzateke, eta ez litzateke bat izango, beraz, bi zenbakiak argitaratu eta gelditzen utziko ditugu.

Zenbat zenbatzen duen: People, from the ADA's masterfile, and already filtered to those whose primary occupation is dentistry — private practice, dental school faculty, armed forces and federal services, state and local government, hospital staff, residents and interns. It EXCLUDES retired dentists, dentists not in practice or waiting for boards, and anyone whose main job is something else. That filtering makes it a different kind of count from most on this site: it is closer to a workforce than to a registry, which is exactly why we do not divide employment into it.

The ADA count is also filtered differently from most credential registries on this site: it already excludes retired dentists and those not in practice, so it is closer to a workforce count than to a register of everyone who ever qualified. Two counts that are each right, measuring populations that do not line up, is precisely the case where publishing the pair and refusing the percentage is the honest answer.

American Dental Association Health Policy Institute, Supply of Dentists in the US: 2001–2024, Table 1 (Standing count of people holding the credential) · ikuspegia

Lau urte geroago, erregistro federaletatik

Edo 7,918 amaitu zuten pertsonak Dentistry (DDS/DMD), first professional degree eta lau urte geroago ez zuten ikasten, 210 ez zuen inolako diru-sarrerarik erregistratu — 2.7%. Lan egiten zutenek 1.000 euroko batez bestekoa irabazten zuten. $170,812, erdiko erdia artean $110,187 eta $239,976.

"Ez dago dirurik" ez da "lanposturik ez" esan nahi. Neurria urte osoan soldata-erregistrorik ez izatea da, ezta lan-eginkizunen bidezko diru-sarrera positiborik ere. Inork ez zuen galdetu lan egin nahi ote zuen, beraz, zenbaketak barne hartzen ditu lan-merkatutik alde egin zuten pertsonak —umeak hazi, zainketa lanak egin, bidaiatu, besteren diru-sarreraz bizi, atzerrira joan— eta lan egin nahi zuten eta lan bat ez zuten guztiak. Inork ez du banaketa argitaratzen, eta ez dugu asmatuko. Egiaztatzen duena da zenbat pertsonak amaitu zuten prestakuntza eta lau urte geroago ez zuten ezer irabazten, ez lanetik ez beste ezeretatik, eta hori da goiko soldata-zifrak ezin dizuna esan.

Programa-kode horrek zer hartzen duen barne: CIP 51.04 at first-professional level is the DDS and DMD. It does not include dental hygiene or dental assisting, which are CIP 51.06 and appear separately. Specialty residencies taken after the degree are also outside it.

Nor dago koadroan: federal student aid received— roughly half of US undergraduates, and the other half is not measured here. Who went on to further study are not in either column. Department suppresses institutions with cohorts too small to publish and adds statistical noise to the remaining, so this is a sum over institutions sufficiently large to report: 53 haietako bat, berreskuratzen ari dena 98.6% Departamentuaren kontu nazionalaren zati bat programa honetarako. Txostenak emateko programa txikienak botatzeak tasa mugitzen du 0.0 ehuneko puntuak.

Iturburua: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · ikuspegia · zenbaki bera argitara dezakegun programa guztietarako.