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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.
Kajaba iku, ana uga sing nyebutake yen wangun iki bisa digawé saka setengah-setengah.
Taun-taun latihan, jam penuh. Jam setengah luwih suwe.
Bulan tina premi gaji diperlukeun pikeun nutupan biaya éta. Teu bulan dugi anjeun di sagigireun sacara umum - waktu latihan di luhur datang kahiji.
Sumber: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · tampilan
Apa sing dadi angka biaya, lan apa sing ora
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.
Apa ana wong kang duwe iki, lan apa ana wong kang kerja ing lapangan
Sapa akeh wong sing duwe iki
202,485 professionally active dentists in the United States — 2024, the last year in the ADA series, published 2025.
Ora ana sing bisa ngganti persentase iki. 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. Dugi ka dua counts sound on sorangan sarta kadua diterbitkeun di luhur jeung handap. Ngabagi aranjeunna bakal ngahasilkeun hiji angka nu maca salaku “bagian tina pamegang damel di lapangan” jeung bakal teu hiji, jadi urang ngaterbitkeun dua counts jeung biarkeun maranéhna berdiri.
Apa sing kalebu ing hitungan: 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) · tampilan
Apa sing kedadeyan karo wong-wong sing rampung pelatihan
4 taun sawisé rampung, saka rekaman federal
Atau 7,918 wong kang rampung Dentistry (DDS/DMD), first professional degree lan ora lagi sinau maneh papat taun sabanjure, 210 ez zuen irabazirik izan erregistroan — 2.7%. wong-wong sing kerjane entuk median saka $170,812, karo setengah tengah antara $110,187 lan $239,976.
"No earnings on record" teu "nganggur". Ukuran ieu nyaéta henteuna rékor gaji sareng pendapatan mandiri anu positif pikeun sataun. Teu aya anu ditanyakeun naha aranjeunna hoyong damel, janten jumlahna ngawengku jalma anu angkat tina tenaga kerja ku pilihan - ngaronjatkeun murangkalih, ngajaga, ngajalankeun, hirup dina pendapatan jalma sanés, pindah ka luar negeri - sareng sadayana anu hoyong damel sareng henteu ngagaduhan. Teu aya anu ngapublikasikan pecahna sareng urang moal nyaho. Anu ditetepkeun nyaéta sabaraha jalma anu réngsé latihan ieu sareng henteu kéngingkeun nanaon tina éta atanapi ti naon waé anu sanés dina opat taun, anu persis anu angka gaji di luhur henteu tiasa nyarios ka anjeun.
Apa kode program iku nglindhungi: 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.
Siapa ing kohort: completers kang nampa bantuan mahasiswa federal - kira-kira setengah saka mahasiswa AS, lan setengah liyane ora diukur ing kene. Wong sing pindhah kanggo sinau luwih iku ing salah siji kolom. Departemen nyegah institusi karo cohorts banget cilik kanggo publikasi lan nambah swara statistik kanggo sisa, supaya iki jumlah ing institusi cukup gedhe kanggo laporkan: 53 saka wong-wong mau, recovery 98.6% saka Departemen dhewe count nasional kanggo program iki. Nglebokaké program laporan paling cilik nglebokaké tingkat kanthi 0.0 poin persen.
Sumber: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · tampilan · angka anu sami pikeun unggal program urang tiasa ngapublikasikan
Apa sing bisa sampeyan lakoni
Gajina aya dina padamelan, lain dina kredensial. Ieu nyaéta padamelan anu anjeun tiasa lakukeun.
| Layanan | Diperlukan? | Median | Digunakaké |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 (dipunundhuh tanggal 20 Oktober 2015)
Apa iku mbayar dhewe?
Layanan iki nglebokake median saka $170,950. Median kerja-weighted ing saben profesi kita nerbitake iku $50,020, dadi premium kanggo ngadhepi iki iku bab $120,930 taun sadurunge pajak.
Baca éta minangka perbandingan ka rata-rata padamelan, henteu ka padamelan anjeun. Apa garis dasar iku, lan apa sing dipisahake
Nanging, dheweke ora bisa entuk kerja. Satiap payback angka dina situs ieu aya syarat dina digawé dina karya. Nu mangrupa asumsi nu credential-holder count di luhur aya pikeun nguji, sarta éta asumsi unggal payback situs séjén nyieun diam.
Apa sing sampeyan butuhake sadurunge miwiti
- A bachelor's degree with science prerequisites
- The Dental Admission Test
- A place at a CODA-accredited dental school
- A clinical licensing examination
Aja nindakake iki yen
- 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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