Dentist licence (DDS/DMD)

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

Dat ass no engem Prozentsaz. 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. D'Zuel vun de Leit, déi an der Stad schaffen, ass net bekannt, mä et gëtt ugeholl, datt se tëscht 200 an 300 Leit sinn. D'Zuel vun de Leit, déi an der Stad schaffen, ass net bekannt, mä et gëtt ugeholl, datt se tëscht 200 an 300 Leit sinn.

Wat déi Zäit enthält: 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) · Astellungen

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Of 7,918 Leit déi et fäerdeg bruecht hunn Dentistry (DDS/DMD), first professional degree an no 4 Joer hu se net méi studéiert, 210 hat keng Verdéngschter op der Record iwwerhaapt — 2.7%. D'Aarbechtsplaze sinn an der Moyenne ronn 100. $170,812, mat der Mëttelhallef tëscht $110,187 an $239,976.

D'Resultat ass eng "No-Record-Resultat"-Lëscht. D'Mooss ass d'Fehlen vun all Lounrekord an all positiven Selbstbedéngungsinkomme fir d'ganzt Joer. Nieft de Leit, déi gefrot goufen, ob se schaffen wollten, gëtt och op Leit gekuckt, déi aus Wëllen d'Aarbecht verlooss hunn - Kanner erzéien, fir aner Suergen hunn, reesen, vun engem aneren Akommes liewen, an d'Ausland goen - an op all déi, déi eng Aarbecht woussten, mee keng haten. Nieft de Leit, déi eng Aarbecht woussten, gëtt d'Split net publizéiert an et gëtt och keng Ratschléi. Wat festgestallt gëtt, ass wéi vill Leit dës Ausbildung ofgeschloss hunn an no véier Joer näischt méi verdéngt hunn, wat d'Lounzuel hei uewen Iech net soe kann.

Wat dee Programmcode bedeckt: 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.

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Quelltext: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Astellungen · déi selwecht Zuel fir all Programm, dat mir publizéieren kënnen