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The Republican Party has abandoned…the working-class dreamer who longs to make good. David Brooks


27 percent of children and 29 percent of adults had cavities going untreated. The level of untreated decay was the highest since the late 1980s… Since 1990, the number of dentists in the United States has been roughly flat, about 150,000 to 160,000, while the population has risen about 22 percent. In addition, more dentists are working part time...

Dentists’ incomes have grown faster than that of the typical American and the incomes of medical doctors. Formerly poor relations to physicians, American dentists in general practice made an average salary of $185,000 in 2004, the most recent data available. That figure is similar to what non-specialist doctors make, but dentists work far fewer hours. Dental surgeons and orthodontists average more than $300,000 annually.

“Dentists make more than doctors,” said Morris M. Kleiner, a University of Minnesota economist. “If I had a kid going into the sciences, I’d tell them to become a dentist.”


My dad wanted me to become a dentist. It seems like they make a lot of money, until you realize that the high end of their pay scale is less than what a rookie playing on any major league sports team can expect.