Krediaal
Dentist licence (DDS/DMD)
The most expensive credential on this site — a quarter of a million dollars in federal loans at the median — leading to one of the best-paid occupations in the country.
Wat dit kos om π die middel helfte van die omvang te kry.
Maande van opleiding, voltyds.'n Ruk neem langer.
Maande van die betaling wat nodig is om daardie koste te dek.'n Paar maande voordat jy oor die algemeen takies voltooi het, kom die opleidingstyd hierbo eerste.
Bron: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · Bekyk
Wat daardie prysprys is, en wat dit nie is nie
The highest figures on this site, and still only the borrowed part. That range is median cumulative FEDERAL LOAN DEBT at completion, not a tuition sticker price and not total cost. It is what completers actually borrowed, so it excludes grants, savings, family money, employer funding and living costs — which makes it a FLOOR on what the credential costs, never a ceiling. The low and high figures are the 25th and 75th percentiles across the institutions that report a figure for this programme, so a quarter of institutions sit below the low end. College Scorecard pools two award years into each figure; the release used here is dated 10 June 2026.
Four years of dental school after a bachelor's degree, then a state or regional clinical licensing examination. Specialising adds two to six years of residency on top.
Licences renew every one to two years by state with continuing education requirements.
Hoe baie mense dit hou, en hoeveel werk in die veld
Hoe baie mense dit hou
202,485 professionally active dentists in the United States — 2024, the last year in the ADA series, published 2025.
Ons verander dit nie in'n persentasie nie. We hold a sound count of dentists and a sound count of employed dentists and we are not dividing one into the other, because federal employment data counts employees and most dentists are self-employed practice owners. The ratio would read as though a third of dentists were not working in dentistry, and what it would actually measure is how many of them own the practice rather than being paid by one. Albei tel op hulle eie en albei word bo en onder gepubliseer.'n syfer wat as UNHCR die deel van houers in die veld staan en nie een sal wees nie, word dan onder hulle genoem en laat ons die twee tele publiseer en hulle staan.
Wat daardie getal insluit: People, from the ADA's masterfile, and already filtered to those whose primary occupation is dentistry — private practice, dental school faculty, armed forces and federal services, state and local government, hospital staff, residents and interns. It EXCLUDES retired dentists, dentists not in practice or waiting for boards, and anyone whose main job is something else. That filtering makes it a different kind of count from most on this site: it is closer to a workforce than to a registry, which is exactly why we do not divide employment into it.
The ADA count is also filtered differently from most credential registries on this site: it already excludes retired dentists and those not in practice, so it is closer to a workforce count than to a register of everyone who ever qualified. Two counts that are each right, measuring populations that do not line up, is precisely the case where publishing the pair and refusing the percentage is the honest answer.
American Dental Association Health Policy Institute, Supply of Dentists in the US: 2001–2024, Table 1 (Standing count of people holding the credential) · Bekyk
Wat gebeur het met die mense wat die opleiding voltooi het
Vier jaar nadat dit voltooi is, uit federale verslae
van 7,918 voltooide Dentistry (DDS/DMD), first professional degree en vier jaar later nie meer studeer nie, 210 geen verdienste op rekord op alle &madash; 2.7%. Die werkers het 'n media-en verdien $170,812, met die middelste helfte tussen $110,187 en $239,976.
← Geen inkomste op rekord ooit is ooit ooit tevore ooit ooit tevore nie. Die maatreël is die afwesigheid van enige loonrekord en enige positiewe self-opvoering inkomste vir die hele jaar. Niemand is gevra of hulle werk wou hê nie, en die telling hou dus mense wat die arbeidsmag verlaat het deur kinders groot te maak, om te versorg, te reis, op iemand anders se inkomste te woon, om in 'n ander se inkomste te trek saam met almal wat 'n werk wou hê en nie een gehad het nie. Niemand publiseer die skeiding en ons sal nie raai nie. Wat wel bepaal hoeveel mense hierdie opleiding en niks verdien het van enigiets wat jy nie, is presies te betaal nie.
Wat daardie programkode dek: CIP 51.04 at first-professional level is the DDS and DMD. It does not include dental hygiene or dental assisting, which are CIP 51.06 and appear separately. Specialty residencies taken after the degree are also outside it.
Wie is in die troepe: Vlergaars wat federale studentehulp gekry het ooit ongeveer die helfte van VSA ondergraduate, en die ander helfte word nie hier gemeet nie. Mense wat verder studeer, is in nie kolom nie. Die Departement onderdruk instellings met spane te klein om te publiseer en voeg statistiese geraas by die res, en daarom is dit'n som oor die instellings groot genoeg om te rapporteer: 53 van hulle, herstel 98.6% van die Departement se eie nasionale telling vir hierdie program. Die kleinste verslaggewingsprogramme word die tempo verlaag deur 0.0 persentasiepunte.
Bron: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Bekyk · dieselfde figuur vir elke program wat ons kan publiseer
Wat dit jou toelaat om te doen
Die betaling behoort aan die werk, nie aan die kern nie.
| Job | Is dit nodig? | MediaanName | Werk tans |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists, General | Legally required to hold the job | $170,950 | 124,390 |
| Dentists, All Other Specialists | Legally required to hold the job | $224,990 | 5,230 |
| Orthodontists Requires the dental degree plus a two- to three-year orthodontic residency. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $289,140 | 6,210 |
| Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Requires the dental degree plus a four- to six-year surgical residency. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $352,220 | 4,910 |
| Prosthodontists Requires the dental degree plus a three-year prosthodontic residency. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $311,180 | 870 |
Mediaanse betaling en werk: BLS - werksgeleenthede en Wage Statistics, Mei 2025.
Betaal dit vir homself?
Die werk wat hierdie ontsluit, betaal 'n media $170,950. Die werk-gewig media regoor elke beroep wat ons publiseer is $50,020, so die premies vir die hou van hierdie is oor $120,930 ' n jaar voor belasting.
Lees dit as'n vergelyking met'n gemiddelde werk, nie met jou werk nie. Wat daardie basislyn is, en wat dit agterlaat
En dit neem jou die werk aan. Elke betaalback figuur op hierdie terrein is voorwaardelik op die in diens gehuur word. Dit is die aanname die kriminaal-houertelling hierbo bestaan om te toets, en dit is die veronderstelling dat elke ander salarisplek stilswyend is.
Wat jy nodig het voordat jy begin
- A bachelor's degree with science prerequisites
- The Dental Admission Test
- A place at a CODA-accredited dental school
- A clinical licensing examination
Doen dit nie as
- you are not prepared for the largest debt on this site and the years of practice-building or buy-in that usually follow it
- you want to be an employee — most dentists own or buy into a practice, which is a second and separate capital requirement
- you cannot work with your hands at a millimetre of tolerance for eight hours a day
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