This data, published in January, comes from a master file created by the American Dental Association based on information about the dentist population gathered from 2001 to 2021.
Listed below are the number of U.S. orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics dentists in the U.S. each year from 2001 to 2021:
2001 — 9,265
2002 — 9,260
2003 — 9,295
2004 — 9,500
2005 — 9,568
2006 — 9,585
2007 — 9,629
2008 — 9,726
2009 — 9,800
2010 — 9,982
2011 — 10,169
2012 — 10,355
2013 — 10,413
2014 — 10,527
2015 — 10,672
2016 — 10,680
2017 — 10,658
2018 — 10,779
2019 — 10,814
2020 — 10,885
2021 — 10,921
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