A small area with a different climate to its surroundings is said to have its own microclimate. Examples include a city or a rooftop garden. The temperature in cities may be around 11ÂºF (6ÂºC) warmer than the surrounding countryside because buildings and paved streets hold the Sunâs heat longer than vegetation.
The average income of general dentists was $161,750 as of May 2011, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The government included 90,950 general practitioners in its survey. More than 80,000 of these general dentists worked as employees of other dentists, where they averaged $164,780 per year. The BLS statistics do not include self-employed dentists.
In some high-priced cities, dentists make a lot of money with non-medical, cosmetic procedures from teeth whitening to botox. And according to the American Dental Association, the average dental specialist earned $283,900 in 2013.* Dentists in some places are so well compensated that they earn more than the average doctor. According to a 2012 report in The Journal of the American Medical Association, the average hourly wage of a dentist in America is $69.60 vs. $67.30 for a physician. As recently as 1996, dentists were making less than doctors.