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.

Tiyeni sikuti amasintha kuti mu peresenti. 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. Omwe awiri mitengo ndi mawu pa iwo okha ndi onse awiri anasindikizidwa pamwamba ndi pansi. Kugawa iwo angatenge chiwonetsero chomwe chimawerenga monga "ndipo makampani ogwira ntchito m'munda" ndipo sichidzakhala chimodzi, choncho tikufalitsa mitengo awiriwa ndi kuwalola kuti azithamanga.

Zomwe kuti kuwerengetsa amaphatikizapo: 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) · Kuwonetsa

Miyezi itatu pambuyo pomaliza, kuchokera ku Federal Records

ya 7,918 anthu amene anamaliza Dentistry (DDS/DMD), first professional degree ndi sanali kuphunzira kwa zaka zitatu zapitazo, 210 analibe ndalama pa record pa zonse — 2.7%. Omwe anali ntchito analandira median ya $170,812, ndi pakati pa theka pakati $110,187 ndi $239,976.

“Sitikulimbikitsidwa” sikuti “osagwira ntchito”. Mtengo wa ndalama za ntchito za anthu amene amaliza maphunzirowa ndi 1000

Kodi kuti pulogalamu code amaphatikizapo: 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.

Kodi ndi ndani m’gululi: Kuphatikiza apo, 100% ya completers amene analandira federal mwana wasukulu thandizo - pafupifupi theka la US undergraduates, ndi theka lina sizimawerengedwa pano. Anthu amene anapita kuphunzira zambiri ndi m'modzi mwa bokosi. Department amaletsa mabungwe ndi cohorts kwambiri ochepa kuti asindikize ndi awonjezera kusowa kwa ziweto kwa ena, kotero izi ndi ndalama pa mabungwe lalikulu kwambiri kuti adziwitse: 53 a iwo, kuchira 98.6% 100% ya ndalama za msonkho wa dziko la Malawi. Kuwononga ochepa zolinga zolemba amasintha mtengo ndi 0.0 peresenti mapoints.

Choyamba: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Kuwonetsa · chiwonetsero chimodzimodzi kwa aliyense pulogalamu titha kufalitsa