Dentist visits per person Europe 2021, by country

In 2021, on average, people from the Netherlands visited the dentist more than three times that year, the highest frequency by far in the European Union (EU). This statistic shows the number of dentist consultations per inhabitant in the EU in 2021, by country.

Number of dentist consultations per inhabitant in the European Union (EU) in 2021, by country

Characteristic	Number of consultations per inhabitant
Netherlands	3.1
Czechia	1.67
France	1.6
Italy	1.6
Lithuania	1.47
Estonia	1.44
Luxembourg	1.42
Germany	1.4
Belgium	1.24
Slovakia	1.16
Sweden	1.14
Austria	1.11
Croatia	1.1
Spain	0.99
Finland	0.9
Latvia	0.9
Poland	0.8
Denmark	0.79
Bulgaria	0.6
Ireland	0.41
Hungary	0.41
Romania	0.3
Cyprus	0.06

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Release date

July 2023

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Region

Europe, EU

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information:
Greece, Malta, Portugal, and Slovenia: not available
Italy: estimate
Luxembourg: provisional.
Germany: Only including cases of dental treatments according to reimbursement regulations.
Austria: only including visits to dentists with contracts with the health insurance providers.
Spain: Data from 2020.
Ireland: Data from 2018.
Cyprus: Data from 2020. Only includes consultations of dentists in institutions under the Ministry of Health. Excludes the private health sector.

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