Credential
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.
Hvad det koster at få! den midterste halvdel af området.
Måneder med uddannelse, fuld tid. Del tid tager længere tid.
Måneder af den løn præmie, der er nødvendig for at dække denne omkostning. Ikke måneder, før du er forude samlet! den uddannelse tid ovenfor kommer først.
Kilde: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · visning
Det er det, der er omkostningerne, og det, det ikke er.
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.
Hvor mange mennesker holder dette, og hvor mange arbejder i marken
Hvor mange mennesker holder den her?
202,485 professionally active dentists in the United States — 2024, the last year in the ADA series, published 2025.
Det gør vi ikke til en procentdel. 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. Begge tællinger er sunde på egen hånd og begge er offentliggjort over og under. Dividing dem ville producere et tal, der læser som ~ andelen af indehavere, der arbejder i feltet! og ville ikke være en, så vi offentliggør de to tællinger og lade dem stå.
Hvad dette tal omfatter: 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) · visning
Hvad skete der med de mennesker, der afsluttede træningen
Fire år efter færdiggørelsen, fra forbundspapirer
Af 7,918 personer, der afsluttede Dentistry (DDS/DMD), first professional degree og studerede ikke længere fire år senere, 210 havde ingen indtjening på rekorden på alle & mdash; 2.7%. De, der arbejdede, tjente en median af $170,812, med midten halvdel mellem $110,187 og $239,976.
●Ingen indtjening på rekorden er ikke ~ubeskæftigede! Foranstaltningen er fraværet af løn rekord og enhver positiv selvstændig indkomst for hele året. Ingen blev spurgt, om de ønskede arbejde, så tælleren holder folk, der forlod arbejdsstyrken ved valg ~ opdrage børn, pleje, rejser, leve af en andens indkomst, flyttede til udlandet ~ sammen med alle, der ønskede et job og havde ingen. Ingen offentliggør opdelingen, og vi vil ikke gætte det. Hvad det gør fastslå er, hvor mange mennesker afsluttet denne uddannelse og var tjener intet fra det eller fra noget andet fire år på, hvilket er præcis, hvad lønniveauet ovenfor ikke kan fortælle dig.
Hvad denne programkode dækker: 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.
Hvem er i kohorten: completers der modtog føderale studerende støtte ~ ca. halvdelen af amerikanske undergraduates, og den anden halvdel er ikke målt her. Folk, der gik videre til yderligere undersøgelse er i ingen af kolonne. Afdelingen undertrykker institutioner med kohorter for små til at offentliggøre og tilføjer statistisk støj til resten, så dette er et beløb over institutionerne store nok til at rapportere: 53 af dem, inddrive 98.6% • en undersøgelse af de forskellige aspekter af dette program. De mindste rapporteringsprogrammer flytter satsen ved at 0.0 procentpoint.
Kilde: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · visning · Det samme tal for hvert program, vi kan offentliggøre
Hvad den lader dig gøre
Lønnen tilhører jobbet, ikke den berettigede.
| Job | Er det nødvendigt? | Median | Beskæftigede |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Medianløn og beskæftigelse: BLS Erhvervsmæssig Beskæftigelse og Løn Statistik, maj 2025.
Betaler den sig selv?
Det job, som låser op, betaler en median af $170,950. Den beskæftigelsesvægtede median på tværs af alle erhverv, vi udgiver, er $50,020, Så præmien for at holde dette handler om $120,930 et år før skat.
Læs det som en sammenligning med et almindeligt job, ikke til dit job. Hvad den basislinje er, og hvad den udelader
Og det går ud fra, at du får jobbet. Hver tilbagebetalingsprocent på dette websted er betinget af at blive ansat i værket. Det er antagelsen om, at den legitimationelle-holder tæller ovenfor eksisterer for at teste, og det er antagelsen alle andre løn site gør tavst.
Hvad du har brug for, før du starter
- A bachelor's degree with science prerequisites
- The Dental Admission Test
- A place at a CODA-accredited dental school
- A clinical licensing examination
Gør det ikke, hvis du har brug for hjælp.
- 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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