Kredentalne
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.
Što košta da se dobije - srednja polovina raspona.
Mjeseci obuke, puno radno vrijeme, a nepuno radno vrijeme traje duže.
Mjeseci primanja potrebni su da se pokrene taj trošak, a ne mjeseci dok ne budeš u prednosti - vrijeme obuke je prvo.
Izvor: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · pogled
Šta je taj trošak, a šta nije?
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.
Koliko ljudi drži ovo, i koliko radi na terenu
Koliko ljudi drži ovo?
202,485 professionally active dentists in the United States — 2024, the last year in the ADA series, published 2025.
Ne pretvaramo to u postotak. 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. Oba brojanja su sama po sebi zvučna i oba su objavljena iznad i ispod, dijeljenjem bi se proizvela cifra koja bi se čitala kao "udio vlasnika koji rade na polju" i ne bi bila jedna, pa objavljujemo dva brojanja i ostavljamo ih da stoje.
Šta je uključeno u broju: 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) · pogled
Šta se dogodilo sa ljudima koji su završili trening?
Četiri godine nakon završetka, iz federalnih evidencija
Od 7,918 ljudi koji su završili Dentistry (DDS/DMD), first professional degree i više nisu studirali četiri godine kasnije, 210 nije imao nikakvih zarada u evidenciji. 2.7%. Oni koji su radili, zaradili su prosjek od $170,812, sa srednjom polovinom između $110,187 i $239,976.
"Nema zarade na evidenciji" nije "nezaposlen". Mjera je nepostojanje bilo kakvih evidencija o plaćama i bilo kakvih pozitivnih prihoda od samozapošljavanja za cijelu godinu. Niko nije bio pitan da li žele raditi, tako da se u broju nalaze ljudi koji su napustili radnu snagu po izboru - odgajanje djece, briga o njima, putovanja, život na nečijem drugom prihodu, preseljenje u inostranstvo - zajedno sa svima koji su željeli posao i nisu ga imali. Niko ne objavljuje taj podjela i mi nećemo nagađati. Ono što se utvrđuje je koliko ljudi je završilo ovu obuku i nije zarađivalo ništa od nje ili bilo čega drugog četiri godine kasnije, što je upravo ono što vam gornji broj plaća ne može reći.
Šta taj programski kod pokriva: 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.
Ko je u kohortama: 1990. godine, 10% studenata je završilo univerzitete, a 10% je završilo univerzitete koji su primali federalnu studentsku pomoć - otprilike polovina američkih studenata, a druga polovina se ovdje ne mjeri. Ljudi koji su nastavili sa studiranjem nisu u nijednoj od kolona. Odjel isključuje institucije sa kohortama koje su premale za objavljivanje i dodaje statistički šum ostalima, tako da je ovo suma institucija dovoljno velikih da se izvještava: 53 od njih, oporavljajući se 98.6% od vlastitog nacionalnog broja ministarstva za ovaj program. Ispuštanje najmanjih izvještajnih programa pomiče stopu za 0.0 postotnih bodova.
Izvor: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · pogled · isti broj za svaki program koji možemo objaviti
Što ti dozvoljava da radiš
Plaća pripada poslu, a ne kvalifikacijama, za to su te kvalifikacije i za to su te zanimanja.
| Job | Da li je to obavezno? | Medijana | Zaposlenik |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Median pay and employment: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
Da li se isplati?
Posao koji ovo otključava plaća se u prosjeku $170,950. Medijan zaposlenosti u svakoj profesiji koju objavljujemo je $50,020, Tako da je premija za držanje ovog oko $120,930 godinu dana prije poreza.
Čitaj to kao usporedbu sa prosječnim poslom, ne sa tvojim poslom. Šta je ta baza i šta ona izostavlja
I pretpostavlja da ćeš dobiti posao. Svaka cifra na ovoj stranici je uslovljena da se zaposli u poslu.To je pretpostavka koju broj imatelja akreditiva iznad postoji da bi se testirao, i to je pretpostavka koju svaka druga platna stranica tiho čini.
Što trebaš prije nego počneš
- A bachelor's degree with science prerequisites
- The Dental Admission Test
- A place at a CODA-accredited dental school
- A clinical licensing examination
Nemoj to da radiš ako
- 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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