Healthcare · SOC 29-1021
Diagnoses and treats teeth and oral health.
Hands-on, interpersonal or high-stakes work AI struggles to replace.
Timeline: Resilient — manual, in-person procedural care.
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Dentist is resilient on AIFear. Hands-on, interpersonal or high-stakes work AI struggles to replace.
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Our AI Fear Score for Dentist is 11/100 (Resilient). Hands-on, interpersonal or high-stakes work AI struggles to replace.
11 out of 100. It blends a Frey & Osborne automation probability of 0% with an estimated LLM task-exposure of 25%.
Most exposed: X-ray screening, Records and scheduling. Harder to automate: Procedures, Diagnosis and patient care.
Lean into Procedural skill, Diagnostics, Practice management. Consider roles such as Oral surgeon or Orthodontist.
AI Fear Score blends Frey & Osborne (2013) automation probability with an LLM task-exposure estimate (after Eloundou et al., 2023). Pay/employment are approximate BLS figures. This is an estimate, not a prediction about any individual's job. Compare all occupations.