Things are a changing all the time. The changes in dentistry should be improving your dental results and experience. Is your dentist up to date?

CE or continuing education is the gauge you should monitor and ask about. If your dentist does 101 hours per year or more, they outdo the highest state requirement. A lot of dentists do much more. But this is about your dentist, your health and your life - not a statistic or a probability.

Surprisingly, the highest designation is held by South Dakota (100 hours). It is possibly the state that has the most difficulty in attracting dentists. Five dentists but they are very good! Sorry SD, as a guy from Iowa - I have the right to let loose once in a while.

Its neighbor to the north only registers in at 32 hours. (If you don't know which state this is, maybe your GE needs a "state" requirement.) These requirements are usually determined by some kind of state dental board.

Next, more to think about and a link with every US state's dental CE so you can interrogate your dentist effectively. You can make sure he/she is not an out of date, without a clue, waiting for the dinner bell, in the Stone Age, out of touch, pliers slinging dentistry outlaw.