Kredencijalno
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.
Koliko košta dobiti – srednja polovica opsega.
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Izvor: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · Pregled
Što je ta cijena, a što 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 broja su zdrava sami i oba su objavljena iznad i ispod. Dijeliti ih bi proizvesti figuru koja se čita kao “udjel nositelja koji rade na terenu” i ne bi bila jedan, tako da smo objaviti dva broja i pustiti ih da stoje.
Što to broji uključuje: 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) · Pregled
Što se dogodilo s ljudima koji su završili trening?
Četiri godine nakon završetka, iz federalnih zapisa
od 7,918 ljudi koji su završili Dentistry (DDS/DMD), first professional degree i više nisu proučavali četiri godine kasnije, 210 nije imao nikakve zarade u zapisniku, uopće, 2.7%. Oni koji su radili zaslužuju medijan $170,812, s sredinom polovice između $110,187 Sluči $239,976.
„Nema zarade u zapisniku“ nije „nezaposlena“. Mjera je odsustvo bilo kakve plaće i pozitivan prihod za samozaposlivanje za cijelu godinu. Nitko nije pitao hoće li raditi, pa grof drži ljude koji su odabrali radnu snagu – odgajanje djece, brigu, putovanje, život na tuđem prihodu, preseljenje – uz sve koji su željeli posao i nisu imali nikakvog. Nitko ne objavljuje podijeljenje i nećemo pogoditi. Ono što utvrđuje je koliko ljudi je završilo ovu obuku i ništa nije zaradilo od toga ili od bilo čega drugog četiri godine dalje, što je točno ono što vam ne može reći brojka plaća.
Što 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.
Tko je u kohorti: potpuni koji su dobili saveznu studentsku pomoć – otprilike polovina američkih studenta, a druga polovica nisu mjerili ovdje. Ljudi koji su nastavili studiju nisu u niti jednom stupcu. Odjela potisnu institucije s kohortama premalo da bi objavili i dodaje statističku buku na ostatak, tako da je to suma dovoljno velika da bi izvijestili: 53 od njih, oporavlja se 98.6% od vlastitog nacionalnog broja za ovaj program. Ispuštanje najmanjih programa za izvješćivanje pomjera stopu po 0.0 postotni bodovi.
Izvor: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Pregled · isti broj za svaki program koji možemo objaviti
Ono što ti omogućava da radiš
Plaća pripada poslu, a ne vjerodostojnosti, već zanimanja za koje te kvalificira.
| Podrška | Je li to potrebno? | Medijan | Zaposleni |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Medijan plaće i zapošljavanja: BLS Zaposleni Zaposleni i plaćeni statistika, svibanj 2025.
Plaća li se sama?
Posao kojim se otključava plaća medijan $170,950. Medijan u zaposlenju u kategoriji u svakom poslu koji objavimo je $50,020, Dakle, premija za držanje je o tome $120,930 godinu dana prije poreza.
Pročitajte to kao usporedbu s prosječnim poslom, a ne s vašim poslom. Što je ta osnova, i što ostavlja vani
I pretpostavlja da ćeš dobiti posao. Svaka osveta na ovom mjestu je uvjetovana da bude angažirana u posao. To je pretpostavka da broj vlasnika kredencijalnosti iznad postoji za testiranje, i to je pretpostavka svaki drugi mjesto plaća tiho čini.
Što trebate prije nego počnete
- A bachelor's degree with science prerequisites
- The Dental Admission Test
- A place at a CODA-accredited dental school
- A clinical licensing examination
Ne čini to 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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