There are 124,513 dentists across the 387 U.S. metros we track — an average of 43.1 per 100,000 residents (the typical metro has 34.2). The least-saturated markets have the most room for a well-marketed dental practice. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns (2022) and Population Estimates (2023).
Most underserved · dentists per 100k
Most saturated · dentists per 100k
All 387 dentists markets by state
Number shown is dentists per 100,000 residents. Lower = less saturated.