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 pediatric dentists in the U.S. each year from 2001 to 2021:
2001 — 4,213
2002 — 4,278
2003 — 4,459
2004 — 4,676
2005 — 4,781
2006 — 4,902
2007 — 5,107
2008 — 5,336
2009 — 5,544
2010 — 5,904
2011 — 6,144
2012 — 6,404
2013 — 6,632
2014 — 6,977
2015 — 7,386
2016 — 7,583
2017 — 7,778
2018 — 8,033
2019 — 8,277
2020 — 8,561
2021 — 8,767
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