New Reports Available
The latest Survey and Economic Research on Dentistry reports published by the ADA are listed below. Reports are generally available either in a bound, hard copy or downloadable, electronic format. Where noted, certain reports are available as a free download to ADA members, while annual reports on accredited education programs are free for anyone to download.To see a preview of these and other reports, or to place an order, visit the ADA Catalog.
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2008–09 Survey of Dental Education: Volume 1 – Academic Programs, Enrollment and Graduates (February 2010)
Volume 1 of the 2008–09 Survey of Dental Education report series is now available from the ADA.
As illustrated in the report, the overall number of US dental school graduates increased 17.1% between 1999 and 2008 (from 4,095 to 4,796). The number of male graduates increased by 0.5%, from 2,649 in 1999 to 2,661 in 2008, while the number of female graduates rose 47.6%, from 1,446 to 2,135.
Published annually, Volume 1 provides statistical information on academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment and graduate levels, tuition costs, and faculty at United States dental schools. Selected information is included for Canadian dental schools as well. The publication also features trends in applications, first-year and total predoctoral enrollment, attrition rates, number of graduates, female student enrollment and first-year tuition and fees.
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2008–09 Survey of Advanced Dental Education (January 2010)
This annual publication provides information on advanced dental specialty and general dentistry education programs in the United States accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation. The report features demographic data on residents, enrollment and graduate levels, application deadlines, and tuition and stipends at the individual program and aggregate levels. In the 2008–09 academic year, 723 accredited advanced dental education programs enrolled 3,009 first-year students/residents (5,864 students/residents overall), and reported 2,899 graduates in the most recent graduating class.
Available as a free download.
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2009 Survey of Dental Fees (December 2009)
The ADA Survey Center's 2009 Survey of Dental Fees has just been published. This 260-plus-page report lists mean, median and percentile fees for nearly 200 different dental procedures as reported by private practicing dentists in the U.S. The 2009 report includes results for nine regions of the country for general practitioners, as well as national data for general practitioners and each of six specialties.
Available as a free download to ADA members.
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2007 Distribution of Dentists in the United States by Region and State (December 2009)
The 2007 Distribution of Dentists in the United States by Region and State has recently been released. This publication is from the ADA’s census of all known dentists in the United States and its possessions and territories. Mandated by the House of Delegates, the census has been conducted periodically since the 1950s with results reported annually in the Distribution of Dentists in the United States by Region and State. Four categories of dentists are described in the report: professionally active dentists, new professionally active dentists, active private practitioners, and new active private practitioners.
Available as a free download to ADA members.
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2007 State and County Demographic Reports (December 2009)
The Survey Center has released the 2007 State and County Demographic Reports. These custom reports, available for all U.S. counties on a per-county basis, are based on the Survey Center's Distribution of Dentists (including the Survey of Dental Graduates), a House-mandated census of dentists in the U.S. and its territories and possessions.
Included in the State and County Demographic Reports are several important pieces of information that will be of interest to new dentists or dentists looking to relocate:
1) number of professionally active and private practice dentists in the county and state;
2) age, gender and specialty of private practitioners in the county and state;
3) changes in the county and state dental population since 1991;
4) 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census figures and 2007 estimates for age, income, and race of persons in the county and state including projections to 2012 for age and income; and
5) education and occupation of persons in the county and state.
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2008–09 Survey of Dental Education: Volume 2 – Tuition, Admission and Attrition (December 2009)
As illustrated in this report (the first volume published in the 2008–09 series), trends in total costs for all four years of dental school show a consistent yearly increase for both residents and non-residents. Over the last ten years, costs for residents among all United States dental schools increased by 87.0%, from $78,835 to $147,409. During the same period, non-resident costs have increased by 81.1%, from $113,965 in 1999–2000 to $206,423 in 2008–09. Proportionally, the difference between resident and non-resident tuition and fees has decreased during the past decade; non-resident students paid 44.6% more than residents in 1999-2000, and 40.0% more than residents in 2008–09.
Published annually, Volume 2 includes statistical information on annual resident and non-resident tuition, general fees and other fixed costs. It also provides information on admissions in dental schools in U.S. and Canada: the number of applicants; academic qualifications of first-year students; criteria employed in the admissions process; advanced placement and number of international dental school graduates; distribution of first-year students according to citizenship; and information on students withdrawing from dental school.
Available as a free download.
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2008–09 Survey of Allied Dental Education (December 2009)
The 2008–09 Survey of Allied Dental Education report is now available. This report, published annually by the Survey Center, contains aggregate and program-level information on admissions policies, enrollment, graduates, faculty characteristics, and areas of instruction. The 2008–09 edition includes information on 301 dental hygiene, 273 dental assisting, and 20 dental laboratory technology education programs in the United States.
The report shows that total enrollment in two types of allied dental education programs increased between 2007–08 and 2008–09. Dental hygiene total enrollment increased by 1.2%, from 15,010 to 15,194. Dental assisting enrollment also increased, by 2.9% from 8,947 to 9,208, while dental laboratory technology enrollment fell 2.3%, from 621 to 607.
Available as a free download.
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2009 ADA Dental Workforce Model: 2007–2030 (December 2009)
The latest Dental Workforce Model has recently been released by the ADA Health Policy Resources Center. This publication contains long-term projections of the U.S. dental workforce using statistical transition models for retirements, occupation change, location choice, specialty education and death. The report provides national projections of the number of dentists (professionally active dentists and active private practitioners), applicants to dental school, first-year dental school enrollments and dental school graduates up to the year 2030.
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2008 Survey of Dental Practice – Employment of Dental Practice Personnel
(November 2009)
Dental hygienists working for an independent dentist earned an average of $36.60 per hour in 2007 according to this new report, “Employment of Dental Practice Personnel,” from the 2008 Survey of Dental Practice. In addition, the report states that the average hourly salary of full-time dental hygienists was $34.30 in 2007, while part-time dental hygienists made $38.20 per hour. The report includes the average number of non-dentist staff employed, average salary for dental hygienists and chairside assistants, time spent in the practice, average length of employment and other statistics for dental team members employed by private practicing dentists.
Available as a free download to ADA members.
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2008 Survey of New Dentists (October 2009)
New dentists (those who graduated from dental school in the previous ten years) who owned their practices reported an average net income from their primary practice of $203,340 in 2007, according to this report. The 2008 Survey of New Dentists report shows that, on average, new dentists reported that they had $8,630 in educational debt entering dental school, but that number went up to $135,460 upon graduation. This informative report also includes demographics and characteristics of new dentists, educational and non-educational debt, practice choices, satisfaction with the profession, as well as benefits and compensation. This report includes information about new dentists who own their practices, employees/associates, independent contractors, as well as new dentists in the federal services.
Available as a free download to ADA members.
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