2018 Survey
of Dental Fees
Overview
The American Dental Association’s (ADA) survey of fees
charged by general practitioners and specialists is gathered from a nationwide
random sample of dentists who were asked to record the fee most often charged
for each of 269 different dental procedures.
Features
- National average fees broken down for both general
practitioners and each of the six specialties
- National level statistics for fees for more than 200
commonly performed dental procedures
- Average fees charged by general practitioners broken down
into nine regional areas, based on U.S. Census divisions
- Standard deviation and percentiles for each
fee
- Dental procedures identified by procedure code and
nomenclature from the Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature as published
in the ADA’s CDT 2016
- Methodology, glossary and survey instrument
information
Specifications
- 133 pages
- PDF can be downloaded once purchased
- The 2018 Survey of Dental Fees sample was selected from the ADA’s national
sampling frame of active private practitioners, which includes member and
non-member dentists. The survey, representing 11.2% of the population, was a
simple random probability sample of 15,000 dentists in private practice, of
whom approximately 60% were general practitioners and 40% were
specialists.
Please note the survey data should not be interpreted in any
way as constituting a fee schedule, and should not be used for that
purpose.