{
    "statement": "of US dentists up to 10 years out of dental school were DSO-affiliated in 2024, against 9.1% of those more than 25 years out",
    "value_display": "26.5%",
    "value_numeric": 26.5,
    "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) | Up to 10 years out of dental school: 0.2654 | More than 25 years out of dental school: 0.0909",
    "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. ADA News (17 Nov 2025) reports the same finding as 'more than 1 in 4'.",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": null,
    "revisions": [],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/dental-marketing/early-career-dentist-dso-affiliation",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/dental-marketing/early-career-dentist-dso-affiliation.csv"
}