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Emergency and planned dental treatments often come with expensive price tags, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Close to half — 44 percent — of dentists who are practice owners have had to take out a commercial loan, according to a Bankers Healthcare Group survey.

Three out of four dentists — 76 percent — play an active role in making financial decision for their practice, according to a Bankers Healthcare Group survey.

Dentists, oral surgeons and orthodontists are some of the highest paying occupations in the U.S., according to data from GOBankingRates and cited by CNBC.

Despite the average dental school debt total topping $285,000, dentists on average earn $224,090 annually, according to 2017 data from the American Dental Association and cited by NerdWallet.

The average annual salary for dental hygienists topped $75,500 in 2017, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook and cited by Forbes.

As the relationship between oral health and overall health is becoming more widely known, many Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S. lack dental coverage, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.

Three U.S.-based schools made QS World University Rankings' list of the top dental schools in 2019. The rankings organization assessed academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations and other factors to determine its list.

Wallethub released a comprehensive report on dental care in the U.S., breaking down states with the best and worst dental care as well as where patients can find the most dentists. The organization compared all 50 states and the District…

In 2017, the average net income for general dentists was $197,190, according to the American Dental Association.