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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.

$220,937–$317,068

Koliko stane, če dobimo srednji del dosega.

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22–32

Meseci premije za plačilo, ki so potrebni za pokritje teh stroškov. Ne meseci, dokler ne napredujete na splošno – čas usposabljanja je prvi.

Vir: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · pogled

Kakšna je ta cena in kaj ni

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 to drži in koliko dela na terenu

Koliko ljudi to drži

202,485 professionally active dentists in the United States — 2024, the last year in the ADA series, published 2025.

Tega ne bomo spremenili v odstotek. 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 sta zvočna in oba sta objavljena zgoraj in pod. Razdelitev bi ustvarila številko, ki se glasi kot »del imetnikov, ki delajo na terenu« in ne bi bila ena, zato objavimo obe točki in jih pustimo stati.

Kaj to pomeni?: 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

Kaj se je zgodilo z ljudmi, ki so končali usposabljanje?

Štiri leta po zaključku, iz zvezne evidence.

od 7,918 osebe, ki so končali Dentistry (DDS/DMD), first professional degree in niso več študiral štiri leta kasneje, 210 ni imel nobenih zaslužkov v zapisniku, sploh ni imel; 2.7%. Tisti, ki so delali, so si zaslužili mediano $170,812, z srednjo polovico med $110,187 in $239,976.

‚Nobena zaslužek v zapisniku‘ ni ‚nezaposlena‘. Ukrep je odsotnost kakršne koli pozitivne plače in pozitivnega dohodka od samozaposlenosti za celo leto. Nihče ni bil vprašan, ali želijo delati, zato je grof zadržal ljudi, ki so izbirno zapustili delovno silo – vzgajanje otrok, skrbenje, potovanje, življenje na dohodek nekoga drugega, selitev v tujino – poleg vseh, ki so hoteli službo in niso imeli nobenega. Nihče ne objavlja razdeljenega dela, ki ga ne bomo ugajali. Ugotovlja, koliko ljudi je to usposabljanje končalo in niso zaslužili ničesar od tega ali od česar koli drugega štiri leta naprej, kar vam ne more povedati natančno tisto, kar vam je zgoraj navedeno.

Kaj zajema ta koda programa: 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.

Kdo je v kohorti: Dopolnilci, ki so prejeli zvezno študentsko pomoč – približno polovica študentov iz ZDA, in druga polovica pa niso izmerjeni tukaj. Ljudje, ki so nadaljevali študij, niso v nobenem stolpcu. Oddelek zavira institucije z premajhnimi kohorti, da bi objavili in dodajali statistični hrup drugim, tako da je to vsota nad institucijami dovolj velika, da poročajo: 53 od njih, okrevanje 98.6% nacionalnim računom ministrstva za ta program. Odpoved najmanjših programov poročanja premika stopnjo za 0.0 odstotne točke.

Vir: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · pogled · enaka številka za vsak program, ki ga lahko objavimo

Kaj ti omogoča, da počneš

Plačilo je delo, ne pa uverenje, ampak poklic, za katerega te kvalificira.

Job Je to potrebno? Mediana 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

Mediana plače in zaposlovanja: BLS Statistika poklicnega zaposlovanja in plače, maj 2025.

Ali se sama plača?

Naloga, ki jo odklene, plača mediano $170,950. Mediana, prilagojena zaposlitvi, je v vsakem poklicu, ki ga objavimo, $50,020, Torej je premija za držanje tega gre za $120,930 leto pred davkom.

Preberite to kot primerjavo s povprečnim delom, ne pa s svojim delom. Kaj je ta izhodišče in kaj izpusti iz sebe?

In domneva, da dobiš službo. Vsaka odplačilo na tej strani je pogojen z najemom v delo. To je domneva, da je zgornji prevzemnik-imetnik obstaja za testiranje, in to je predpostavka, da vsak drugi plačilni kraj tiho.

Kaj potrebujete, preden začnete

  • A bachelor's degree with science prerequisites
  • The Dental Admission Test
  • A place at a CODA-accredited dental school
  • A clinical licensing examination

Ne storite tega, če

  • 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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