DENTAL FACTS
Flexibility to balance a professional and
personal life
Personally rewarding profession since you are
helping people in need
Combines art and science
Improve a patient’s appearance by using a
variety of esthetic dental procedures
Educate patients on how to better care for their
teeth and prevent oral disease
Dentist earnings are
in the highest 5 percent of
In 2001, the average
earnings for a general practitioner who owns his/her practice was $173,000; the
average earnings for a dental specialist was $275,000.
In 2003, the median
annual earnings of dentists in
Job Security
To keep up with its growing population, Arizona
will need to hire almost 180 dentists each year between now and 2013 to fill
new jobs as well as the posts of those who have left the profession.
Dentists held 4,502 jobs in 2003 in Arizona;
that number is projected to grow to 5,527 by 2013, a 23 percent increase.
Nationally, the number of dentists expected to
grow by 4 percent.