Children with dental visits in past year U.S. 1997-2019 | Statista

In 2019, nearly 87 percent of children between the ages of 2 and 17 years of age visited the dentist in 2019. This statistic depicts the percentage of children in the United States who visited the dentist in the past year from 1997 to 2019.

Percentage of children in the United States who visited the dentist in the past year from 1997 to 2019

Characteristic	Share of respondents
1997	72.7%
1998	73.5%
1999	72.6%
2000	74.1%
2001	73.3%
2002	74.2%
2003	75%
2004	76.4%
2005	76.2%
2006	75.7%
2007	76.7%
2008	77.3%
2009	78.4%
2010	78.9%
2011	81.4%
2012	82.3%
2013	83%
2014	83%
2015	84.7%
2016	84.6%
2017	84.9%
2018	85.9%
2019	86.9%

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Release date

August 2022

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Region

United States

Survey time period

1997 to 2019

Number of respondents

around 35,000 households

Age group

2-17 years

Special properties

civilian non-institutionalized population

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