The ADEA provided details on dental school debt in its Trends in Dental Education report for 2022-23. The organization received responses from 2,376 survey participants expecting to graduate with dental school debt in 2022.
Here is how the average amount of dental education debt has changed since 2017:
2017: $308,200
2018: $309,600
2019: $308,500
2020: $318,500
2021: $305,300
2022: $286,200