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.
Ko tas maksā, lai iegūtu - vidusdaļa diapazona.
Mēneši apmācības, pilna laika. Daļēja laika aizņem ilgāk.
Ne pirms mēnešiem — pirmā no šīm mācībām — ir laiks, kas ir pirms tam.
Avots: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · skats
Kas tas ir izmaksu skaitlis, un kas tas nav
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.
Cik cilvēku to tur un cik daudz strādā
Cik daudz cilvēku to tur
202,485 professionally active dentists in the United States — 2024, the last year in the ADA series, published 2025.
Mēs nemainām to procentos. 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. Abas skaitļi ir skaņas patstāvīgi, un abi tiek publicēti virs un zem. Sadalot tos, tiktu radīts skaitlis, kas skan kā “laukā strādājošo īpašnieku īpatsvars”, un tas nebūtu viens, tāpēc mēs publicējam abus skaitļus un ļaujam viņiem stāvēt.
Ko tas nozīmē: 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) · skats
Kas notika ar cilvēkiem, kuri pabeidza mācības
Četrus gadus pēc pabeigšanas, no federālajiem ierakstiem
no 7,918 cilvēki, kas pabeiguši darbu Dentistry (DDS/DMD), first professional degree un pēc četriem gadiem vairs nestudēja, 210 nebija peļņas par ierakstu vispār — 2.7%. Tie, kas strādāja, nopelnīja mediāna $170,812, ar viduspusi starp $110,187 kā arī $239,976.
“Nekāda peļņa pēc rekordliela” nav “bezdarbnieks”. Pasākums ir nekāda atalgojuma neesamība un pozitīvu pašnodarbinātības ienākumu trūkums par visu gadu. Neviens netika jautāts, vai viņi vēlas strādāt, tāpēc skaitījumā ir ietverti cilvēki, kas pēc izvēles atstāj darbaspēku – audzināt bērnus, rūpēties par viņiem, ceļot, dzīvot par cita ienākumiem, pārcelties uz ārzemēm – līdzās visiem, kas vēlējās darbu un kam nebija neviena. Neviens nepublicē sadalījumu, un mēs neuzminēsim to. Tas ir tas, cik daudz cilvēku pabeidza šo apmācību un neko nepelnīja no tās, vai no kaut kā cita četru gadu laika, kas ir tieši tas, ko nevar pateikt iepriekš minētais algas skaitlis.
Ko minētais programmas kods ietver: 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.
Kas ir kohortā: Absolventi, kas saņēma federālo studentu atbalstu - aptuveni puse no ASV bakalaura, un otra puse nav mērīta šeit. Cilvēki, kas devās uz tālāko pētījumu nav nevienā slejā. Departamenta nomāc iestādes ar kohortām pārāk mazs publicēt un pievienot statistikas troksni pārējā, tāpēc tas ir summa pār iestādēm pietiekami liels, lai ziņotu: 53 Atveseļošanās 98.6% par pašas departamenta nacionālo uzskaiti šai programmai. Pamešana mazākajām ziņošanas programmām maina ātrumu 0.0 procentu punkti.
Avots: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · skats · tāda pati skaitlis katrai programmai, ko mēs varam publicēt
Ko tas ļauj jums darīt
Atalgojums pieder pie darba, nevis pie uzticības.
| Darbs | Vai tas ir nepieciešams? | Mediāna | Nodarbināts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Vidējā darba samaksa un nodarbinātība: BLS nodarbinātības un algu statistika, 2025. gada maijs.
Vai tas pats par sevi maksā?
Darbs, kas tiek atbloķēts, maksā mediānu $170,950. Nodarbinātības mediāna, kas ir noteikta katrā profesijā, kuru mēs publicējam, ir $50,020, tā piemaksa par turēšanu tas ir par $120,930 gadu pirms nodokļu nomaksas.
Izlasiet to kā salīdzinājumu ar vidējo darbu, nevis ar savu darbu. Kas ir šis bāzes punkts un kas tajā nav minēts
Un ir pieņemams, ka tu dabūsi darbu. Katrs atmaksa skaitlis šajā vietnē ir atkarīgs no tiek nolīgti darbā. Tas ir pieņēmums, ka credential turētāju skaits iepriekš pastāv pārbaudīt, un tas ir pieņēmums katru citu samaksas vietā dara klusi.
Kas Jums nepieciešams pirms uzsākšanas
- A bachelor's degree with science prerequisites
- The Dental Admission Test
- A place at a CODA-accredited dental school
- A clinical licensing examination
Nedariet to, ja:
- 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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