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WalletHub released its 2018 report on states with the best and worst dental health.

As of 2016, a majority of dentists, 24.4 percent, were between the ages of 55 and 64 years, according to the American Dental Association.

Dentist landed at No. 44 on CNN Money’s “Best Jobs in America” list in 2017.

A new survey shows individual enrollment in dental savings plans was up significantly in 2016, according to insurancenews.net.

U.S. News & World Report ranked the best jobs in the U.S. for 2017-2018, with dentists topping the list.

Equipped with a DDS or DMD degree, dental professionals can become oral surgeons following completion of a four-year oral surgery residency.

Between 2006 and 2016, there were 13,722 adverse action reports on dentists across the U.S, according to the HHS' National Practitioner Data Bank.

An American Dental Association research brief outlined the supply of dentists for five specialties in 2015 per 100,000 people.

Throughout the U.S., National Practitioner Data Bank reports there were nearly 16,337 medical malpractice payment reports among dentists between 2006 and 2016.

The American Dental Association gave the following statistic on the states with the highest Medicaid fee-for-service reimbursement rates as a percentage of fees charged by dentists for adult dental services in 2016.