Dental Surgeons - Employment & Outlook

The table below provides information about the number of workers in this career in various regions. It also provides information about the expected growth rate and future job openings.

Employment

Major employers:

Private dental offices

Outlook

Growth for dentists will be about as fast as average. As the population ages, many people will need more complicated dental work, such as bridges and crowns. In addition, improved preventative dental care has allowed more people to keep their natural teeth. This means they will require more dental care than previous generations when people had dentures.

Openings will occur as people leave this career or retire.

Dentists (CIS 100298)

Location	Employment	&	Growth		>>>>	Annual openings
			This occupation	All occupations
Illinois	684 Very small	&	4.5%	2.7%	>>>>	22 Very few
Champaign Area	11 Very small	&	0.0%	1.9%	>>>>	0 None
Charleston-Effingham-Centralia Area	37 Very small	&	-8.1%	-1.2%	>>>>	1 Very few
Cook County	294 Very small	&	1.4%	3.0%	>>>>	8 Very few
DeKalb-Elgin-Aurora Area	34 Very small	&	14.7%	4.0%	>>>>	1 Very few
Du Page County	69 Very small	&	18.8%	3.7%	>>>>	3 Very few
Edwardsville Area	15 Very small	&	6.7%	4.4%	>>>>	0 None
Kankakee-Morris-Pontiac Area	7 Very small	&	-14.3%	-0.1%	>>>>	0 None
Lake County	40 Very small	&	2.5%	2.6%	>>>>	1 Very few
McHenry County	16 Very small	&	0.0%	6.1%	>>>>	0 None
Mt Vernon-Marion-Carbondale Area	9 Very small	&	0.0%	0.2%	>>>>	0 None
Northwest Illinois Area	16 Very small	&	-6.3%	5.1%	>>>>	0 None
Peoria-Bloomington Area	27 Very small	&	7.4%	1.3%	>>>>	1 Very few
Quincy-Macomb-Galesburg Area	8 Very small	&	-12.5%	-1.6%	>>>>	0 None
Rock Island-Moline Area	8 Very small	&	0.0%	1.8%	>>>>	0 None
Rockford Area	24 Very small	&	8.3%	2.4%	>>>>	0 None
Springfield Area	11 Very small	&	9.1%	-0.8%	>>>>	0 None
St Louis-Belleville Area	13 Very small	&	15.4%	0.2%	>>>>	0 None
Will County	36 Very small	&	19.4%	5.4%	>>>>	2 Very few
United States	142,700 Medium	&	4.2%	3.1%	>>>>	4,300 Very few