Dentistry: Find data & statistics

Oral health data systems monitor the prevalence of oral diseases and the factors influencing oral health, such as risky or protective behaviors, the availability of preventive interventions and utilization of preventive services.

Includes statistics and data regarding morbidity, health care use and more, as well as links to related NCHS Data Briefs.

Statistics to document the magnitude of oral, dental, and craniofacial conditions and assess oral health trends in the United States. The Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Data Resource Center provides oral health-related data from national health surveys.

Presents global information on dental diseases and oral health services.

The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey collects information on the nature of any dental care visit/use/event, type of dental care provider, treatments and services performed, and prescribed medicines.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a random telephone survey of state residents aged 18 and older in households with telephones. Access to data for 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010.

Access to data for 2020, links to 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018

Note this does not include data regarding oral health status in Tribal Reservations. See Tribal Reservations box for guidance on finding this data.

Compiled from a variety of sources in order to examine the directions allied, predoctoral, and postdoctoral dental education have taken. Coverage ends in 2013.

Estimates of the number of people employed and estimates of the wages paid to them. Data available for Dental Assistants, Dental Hygienists, General Dentists, and Dental Specialties.

Developed at the Cecil G. Sheps Center at UNC-Chapel Hill to collect and disseminate timely and reliable data on selected licensed health professionals in North Carolina.