Oral medicine, an emerging field, only had 6 specialists in 2021

As of 2021, there were only six oral medicine specialists in the U.S., according to recent data from the American Dental Association.

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The ADA collected data on the total number of dentists and the ratio of dentists per capita in a January 2022 report.

An oral medicine doctor diagnoses and manages patients with disorders of the orofacial region, essentially a “physician of the mouth,” according to the American Board of Oral Medicine.

Number of oral medicine specialists from 2019-21:

2019: Zero

2020: 3

2021: 6

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