Stomatologist and oral surgeon fees in France
Physicians specialised in the mouth and jaws, filed apart from dentists in Assurance Maladie data.
In France a stomatologist (stomatologue) is a medical doctor, not a dental surgeon, and Assurance Maladie lists the specialty among physicians rather than with dentists. A stomatologist in private practice billed €528,366 in fees on average in 2025, €231,209 of it extra-billing above the regulated rate (43.8 %). That average is up 72.7 % since 2015 while the workforce shrinks: 686 practitioners, 12.2 % in five years, 36.2 % aged 60 or over. Only 25 départements have a published figure. Dental surgeons qualified in oral surgery (298 in the RPPS register) or oral medicine (151) get no separate statistic, as they are counted with general dentists. No public practice accounts exist for stomatologists either, so the calculator borrows the UNASA dentist benchmark and labels it as a proxy.
Your fees against the average · stomatologists in Rhône
−23 %
below the average · €530,000 (comparable fees, excluding non-reimbursable work)
Your figure is above the stomatologists average of 14 départements out of 25.
Profit before income tax (BNC) (estimated)
€193,980
per month €16,165
| Fees per chair | €265,000 |
| Fees per day worked | €2,617 |
| Fees per staff member (FTE) | €265,000 |
| Cost ratioestimated · reference 63.4 % | 63.4 % |
What sets you apart
- Worth watchingYour comparable fees are 23 % below the average in your département (€690,787). That average covers practitioners active all year: part-time work explains a gap.
How this is calculated
2025 Assurance Maladie averages per full-time active practitioner (data.ameli.fr open data). These are averages, not percentiles: the distribution is not published. Non-reimbursable fees are removed before comparing. Reference cost ratio: UNASA 2024, 1,969 practices, practices in receipts quarter 4, dentists’ benchmark, as no public figure exists for stomatologists. Method and sources
Checked by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · Method and sources
A medical specialty, filed separately
Assurance Maladie splits oral care into three groups. Dental surgeons excluding orthodontics, 38,065 in private practice; orthodontists (ODF, dentofacial orthopaedics); and stomatologists, 686 of them, who are physicians and appear in the list of medical specialties. The first two make up “chirurgiens-dentistes”, 40,149 in private practice. Stomatologists sit outside that total.
A consequence that often surprises: the two dental council specialties closest to stomatology have no line of their own. Oral surgery (chirurgie orale, 298 dental surgeons in the RPPS register) and oral medicine (médecine bucco-dentaire, 151) are folded into the general dentist average of €302,480. If you are a dental surgeon with one of those qualifications, compare yourself as a general dentist; the stomatologist setting is meant for physicians.
€528,366 in average fees, and climbing fast
A full-time active stomatologist in private practice billed €528,366 in 2025: €297,157 at the regulated rate and €231,209 of extra-billing, or 43.8 %. The figure rests on 546 practitioners, well above general dentists and below orthodontists.
| Year | Stomatologists | General dentists | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | €305,885 | €240,376 | 27 % |
| 2017 | €325,139 | €251,547 | 29 % |
| 2019 | €348,466 | €258,551 | 35 % |
| 2020 | €331,015 | €247,695 | 34 % |
| 2021 | €401,843 | €293,340 | 37 % |
| 2022 | €425,983 | €292,578 | 46 % |
| 2023 | €481,566 | €299,343 | 61 % |
| 2024 | €506,485 | €301,737 | 68 % |
| 2025 | €528,366 | €302,480 | 75 % |
Growth is the steepest of the three groups: 72.7 % since 2015, 51.6 % since 2019, and 4.3 % again last year. Read it carefully. The average is computed on a workforce that gets smaller each year, and if those leaving billed less than those staying, the average rises with no change in anyone’s activity. Published data cannot tell that composition effect apart from real growth.
An ageing, thinning profession
- headcount: 686 in 2025, down from 781 five years earlier;
- density: 0.99 per 100,000 residents, against 55 for general dentists;
- age: 36.2 % aged 60 or more, 7.4 % under 35;
- women: 26.4 %, the lowest share of the three groups;
- mixed private and salaried work: 29.2 %;
- patients seen in the year: 1,144 on average (Assurance Maladie patient data).
Mixed practice stands out. Nearly one stomatologist in three also holds a salaried post, compared with 5.5 % of general dentists. Before comparing a practice with the average, check that private work filled the whole year.
25 of 101 départements published
With fewer than five practitioners, no average is released. At under one stomatologist per 100,000 people, that rule blanks out 76 départements; the 25 that remain hold 478 of the 686 stomatologists in private practice. Puy-de-Dôme leads with €837,259 across 7 practitioners, and Seine-Saint-Denis comes last at €318,491 across 12. Each average rests on 6 to 83 practitioners, so in the smallest ones a single unusual practice moves it.
| Rank | Département | Stomatologists in private practice | Average fees | of which extra-billing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puy-de-Dôme | 7 | €837,259 | €347,860 |
| 2 | Haute-Savoie | 6 | €835,775 | €455,829 |
| 3 | Loire | 12 | €801,486 | €405,143 |
| 4 | Calvados | 10 | €727,566 | €385,238 |
| 5 | Gironde | 24 | €723,441 | €362,521 |
| 6 | Seine-Maritime | 22 | €696,895 | €300,348 |
| 7 | Rhône | 40 | €690,787 | €371,704 |
| 8 | Val-de-Marne | 14 | €564,949 | €285,478 |
| 9 | Maine-et-Loire | 12 | €559,396 | €154,197 |
| 10 | Indre-et-Loire | 12 | €549,756 | €204,973 |
| 11 | Gard | 8 | €543,733 | €256,773 |
| 12 | Nord | 29 | €514,017 | €205,562 |
| 13 | Hérault | 11 | €496,523 | €219,117 |
| 14 | Hauts-de-Seine | 17 | €460,764 | €229,198 |
| 15 | Isère | 9 | €456,455 | €230,409 |
| 16 | Loire-Atlantique | 27 | €420,978 | €133,099 |
| 17 | Essonne | 9 | €409,903 | €210,735 |
| 18 | Paris | 83 | €407,761 | €220,086 |
| 19 | Alpes-Maritimes | 15 | €396,720 | €170,475 |
| 20 | Bouches-du-Rhône | 48 | €396,166 | €111,967 |
| 21 | Haute-Garonne | 19 | €378,753 | €165,612 |
| 22 | Var | 10 | €355,977 | €125,802 |
| 23 | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 12 | €340,913 | €111,654 |
| 24 | Val-d'Oise | 10 | €331,325 | €127,488 |
| 25 | Seine-Saint-Denis | 12 | €318,491 | €116,183 |
If your département is missing, the calculator compares you with your region, where a figure exists, and with France.
No practice accounts of their own
Neither UNASA nor any other public source releases stomatology practice accounts. The calculator borrows the dental benchmark instead: 65.3 % of receipts in costs, own contributions included, and €107,474 of average profit in the 2024 accounts of 1,969 practices (UNASA, code 851EAA), shown as a proxy. Income is not ranked either, because the DREES distribution used on this site covers dental surgeons, not physicians. The cost ratio guide breaks down each expense line, and SELARL or BNC covers the choice of legal structure, a decision to check with a chartered accountant (expert-comptable).