Clinician type
Periodontists
At a glance
- Practicing in the U.S.
- 6,596
- Per 100,000 residents
- 2.0
- Women
- 28%
- Median years since graduating
- 21
Who they are
- Women 28%
- Graduated 35 or more years ago 29%
- Offer telehealth 0%
- Accept Medicare’s approved amount 42%
Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.
Where they practice
What they do most for Medicare patients
- Repair of lower jaw bone with bone graft 199
- X-ray of lower jaws, upper jaws and teeth 191
- Ct scan of face without contrast 164
- Simple repair of surface wound of face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips, or mouth, 2.5 cm or less 161
- Removal of lower jaw bone 156
- Repair of nasal or cheek bone with bone graft 156
- Removal of bone, 20.0 sq cm or less 108
- New patient office or other outpatient visit, 15-29 minutes 98
- Removal of foreign body from tissue, accessed beneath the skin, simple 92
- Removal of face bone 79
- Impression and custom preparation of oral surgical splint 76
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes 70
Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.
What they prescribe most
- Amoxicillin 34.7%
- Chlorhexidine Gluconate (Periogard) 22.9%
- Ibuprofen (Caldolor, Ibu) 14.9%
- Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen (Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen) 5.6%
- Azithromycin (Azasite, Zithromax) 3.3%
- Clindamycin Hcl 2.5%
- Amoxicillin/Potassium Clav (Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Pot Er, Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potass) 1.8%
- Acetaminophen With Codeine (Acetaminophen-Codeine) 1.8%
- Doxycycline Hyclate (Doxy 100, Targadox) 1.6%
- Tramadol Hcl 1.4%
- Methylprednisolone (Medrol) 1.4%
- Dexamethasone (Hemady, Maxidex, Ozurdex) 1.0%
- Cephalexin 0.9%
- Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen (Endocet, Oxycodone-Acetaminophen, Percocet) 0.8%
- Metronidazole (Noritate, Nuvessa, Vandazole) 0.6%
Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.
Hospitals where the most work
- Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH 1 Periodontists at Cleveland Clinic
- Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester Rochester, MN 1 Periodontists at Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester
Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.
Schools they graduated from most
- Indiana University School of Dentistry 2
- University of Puerto Rico School of Dentistry 2
- University of Tennessee Hsc College of Dentistry 2
- Baylor College of Dentistry/texas A&m University 1
- Case Western University School of Dental Medicine 1
- Columbia University College of Dental Medicine 1
- Georgetown University School of Medicine 1
- Harvard Medical School 1
- Howard University College of Dentistry 1
- New York University College of Dentistry 1
From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).
Industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $3.9M in general payments to 2,764 clinicians in Periodontists in 2025. See who received the most
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2025. A payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Sources: CMS NPPES (counts, sex, credentials), Medicare Care Compare (schools, graduation years, hospitals, telehealth), CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners (2023) and Part D Prescribers (2024), CMS Open Payments (2025), ACGME program requirements (training length), OpenAlex (research), U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024 (population).