Dental Benefits

Education Miscellaneous Dental Benefits Benchmarks

Real dental plan data from verified employers in your industry

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533Employers
924Plans
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Education Miscellaneous Employee Benefits Overview

Updated November 2026

Dental plans typically feature predictable costs and high employee participation rates, making them a staple of most benefit packages.

Our database includes 533 education miscellaneous employers offering 924 verified benefit plans. DPPO plans are the most common (85% of employers), followed by DMO (15%). Fully-Insured funding is the predominant model, used by 95% of industry employers. Most employers offer two plan options to employees (53%).

Dental benchmarks cover preventive care coverage, basic and major service cost-sharing, and annual maximums.

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Education Miscellaneous plan design & cost benchmarks

In-Network Cost Sharing: sample layout
In-Network Benefits
LimitedBalancedRobust
Your Plan
Individual Deductible
$34
$47
$74
$4752Bal
Family Deductible
$87
$122
$184
$12252Bal
Annual Maximum
$1,142
$1,550
$2,438
$1,55052Bal
Ortho Lifetime Maximum
$1,013
$1,511
$1,803
$1,51152Bal
Preventive Coverage
85%
90%
98%
90%52Bal
Basic Coverage
71%
74%
79%
74%52Bal
Major Coverage
51%
54%
59%
54%52Bal

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In-Network Cost Sharing

Deductibles, copays, coinsurance & out-of-pocket maximums

Employee Contributions

Monthly employee premium contributions by tier

Gross Premium Rates

Total monthly premium costs by coverage tier

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Plan Type Mix

% of employers offering each

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DPPO85%
DMO15%

Plan Funding

% of employers by funding

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Fully-Insured95%
Self-Insured3%
Level-Funded2%

Plans Offered

% of employers by plan count

VERIFIED
Two Plans53%
Three or More Plans25%
One Plan22%

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