"According to The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, there were 58,632 professionally active female dentists in the US at the start of 2016, or 28% of the total. If that doesn’t sound significant, consider that before the 1970s, according to the Sindecuse Museum at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, less than 3.3% of American dentists were women."
Research shows female dentists still make up only a small percentage of the profession. But that's changing. Click here to read Dr. Edita's take on this issue on DMD Today.