Dental Hygienists
Licensed oral health care professionals who clean teeth, examine patients for signs of oral diseases such as gingivitis, and provide other preventive dental care.
2038 Supply (SQ)
165,270
2038 Demand (SQ)
198,490
2038 Gap
-33,220
2038 Elevated Need
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Supply & demand trend — US Total, Total
HRSA scenarios · 11 lines
Each line is a separate HRSA projection. Blue = supply, red = demand. The two solid "Status Quo" lines are the baseline projections HRSA publishes; dashed lines are HRSA's own stress tests. Hover a line for the exact year value, or click a chip below to isolate it.
Supply scenarios
Demand scenarios
Methodology notes
- All values come directly from HRSA's Workforce_Projections_FullData.xlsx (FY2025 release).
- Values are rounded to the nearest 10 per HRSA disclosure convention.
- The chart shows every scenario HRSA publishes for this (profession, geography, rurality) tuple. Missing lines = scenario not applicable to this profession (e.g., Income Effect only applies to oral health; Unmet Need only to behavioral health).
- See Methodology & Sourcesfor HRSA's model assumptions and our extension plan.