10 quick facts:
1. There are approximately 1,351 dentists in the continental United States who report that they practice orthodontics either full time or in conjunction with general dentistry.
2. Orthodontic practitioners represent only 2 per cent of all dentists in the United States.
3. One or more orthodontists are located in each of the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia. North Dakota has the smallest absolute number (one) while New York has the largest (208).
4. The concentration of orthodontists (orthodontist per 100,000 population) is highest in California and Nevada (2.5) and lowest in Mississippi (0.1) and is influenced, among other factors, by the per capita income of the state.
5. Half of the orthodontists in the United States practice in twelve states, the majority of which are on the Eastern seaboard and the West Coast.
6. The major proportion of orthodontic practitioners maintain only a single office-location; but about 17 per cent of them maintain two or more office-locations in adjoining cities or adjacent states. More of the older practitioners tend to have multiple office-locations.
7. The highest concentration of orthodontic practitioners (orthodontists per 100,000 population) is found in the larger cities of 1,000,000 or more population, while the lowest concentration is encountered in cities having fewer than 10,000 population.
8. More than 84 per cent of the orthodontic practitioners report that they are in exclusive practice of the specialty.
9. Fewer than 15 per cent of the orthodontic practitioners hold the certificate of the American Board of Orthodontics.
10. About 36 per cent of the orthodontic practitioners report that they have had university graduate training in the specialty.
You’re a european nut case. So I’ll address myself in a dumbed down language you’ll understand.
Many English
I saw
had bad teeth
in a way
not often seen
in American adults.
Why would anyone with accesss to orthodontists put up with
it?
Your number is short a decimal place.
try again.