{
    "statement": "of US dentists were affiliated with a dental support organization (DSO) in 2024",
    "value_display": "16.1%",
    "value_numeric": 16.1,
    "unit": "%",
    "data_label": "2024",
    "data_period_end": "2024-12-31",
    "region": "USA",
    "size": "all",
    "source": {
        "name": "Health Policy Institute research and data",
        "publisher": "American Dental Association, Health Policy Institute",
        "type": "industry",
        "url": "https://www.ada.org/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://www.ada.org/-/media/project/ada-organization/ada/ada-org/files/resources/research/hpi/hpidata_dentist_practice_modalities_2024.xlsx",
    "source_quote": "Dentists Affiliated with a Dental Support Organization (DSO) | % of Dentists: 0.1607",
    "verification_note": "Read in the ADA HPI data file 'Distribution of dentists according to size of dental practice and affiliation with a DSO, 2024' (xlsx on ada.org), sheet 'Summary - US Data'. Values are shares; we round to one decimal. The HPI dental practice research page rounds it: 'As of 2024, more than one in ten dentists (16%) in the U.S. are affiliated with a dental support organization (DSO).' HPI says its method slightly undercounts DSO affiliation. Publish date not stated (file copyright 2025).",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": {
        "columns": [
            "Group",
            "Share affiliated with a DSO"
        ],
        "rows": [
            [
                "All US dentists",
                "16.1%"
            ],
            [
                "Up to 10 years out of dental school",
                "26.5%"
            ],
            [
                "11 to 25 years out",
                "14.4%"
            ],
            [
                "More than 25 years out",
                "9.1%"
            ],
            [
                "Female dentists",
                "17.6%"
            ],
            [
                "Male dentists",
                "14.8%"
            ]
        ]
    },
    "revisions": [],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/dental-marketing/dentist-dso-affiliation-2024",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/dental-marketing/dentist-dso-affiliation-2024.csv"
}