ADA Data Show Dentist Incomes Flat in 2025 as Expenses Outpace Revenue

Posted: June 11, 2026

ADA Data Show Dentist Incomes Flat in 2025 as Expenses Outpace Revenue

Edited by Dentaltown staff

The American Dental Association Health Policy Institute has released updated Survey of Dental Practice data showing that general practitioner dentists’ inflation-adjusted incomes were unchanged in 2025, extending a roughly 15-year decline the institute attributes to practice expenses rising faster than revenue.

The average net income for general practitioner dentists was $215,320 in 2025, according to the institute’s analysis. Over a recent five-year period, practice revenue grew 1.4% while expenses rose 4.9%, a gap the institute describes as a “fiscal squeeze” driven by costs outpacing reimbursement.

The figures come from HPI’s annual Survey of Dental Practice, combined with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The release includes a slide deck summarizing the results with graphs and methodology, along with a data file reporting 2025 results for income, gross billings, expenses, practice characteristics, and selected staff wages.

Beyond headline earnings, the materials break out differences in income and hours worked between male and female dentists and between practice owners and associates. They also compare dentists’ net income with earnings in other professions and detail how expenses and revenues differ between urban and rural practices.

The Survey of Dental Practice is one of the profession’s most widely used economic benchmarks, drawn on by practice owners, consultants, and organized dentistry to track compensation, staffing costs, and practice valuation. The institute publishes updated results annually; the 2025 figures follow the 2024 results issued last year.

Sources:
ADA Health Policy Institute, “Trends in Dentists’ Income, Revenue and Hours Worked,” June 2026: ada.org/…/trends-in-dentist-income
ADA Health Policy Institute, “All HPI Publications”: ada.org/…/all-hpi-publications


ADA Data Show Dentist Incomes Flat in 2025 as Expenses Outpace Revenue

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