The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) has served the dental education community for almost 85 years. The organization was founded under the name "American Association of Dental Schools" (AADS) on January 23, 1923, in Omaha, Nebraska. At that time, AADS had 44 active members and three associate members, nearly all of them dental schools within universities.
Today, there are 57 dental schools in the United States (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) and 10 in Canada. Every U.S. and Canadian dental school is an ADEA member, along with more than 100 allied dental education programs and almost 350 advanced education programs. These dental education programs - allied, predoctoral, and postdoctoral - include more than 46,000 students and almost 12,000 faculty.
This edition of ADEA's Dental Education at a Glance provides data on selected characteristics of dental education for the dental education community and the public. Dental Education at a Glance is a part of a larger body of knowledge available from ADEA, including ADEA's Trends in Dental Education and a number of surveys and association reports.