Dentists
In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
Work out your own score ↓What can you do?
The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Supervising dental hygienists, dental assistants and other staff.27
- Educating patients and families on dental hygiene, nutrition and other measures to take care of oral health26
- Assisting in diagnosing general diseases having oral manifestations such as diabetes21
- Prescribing medication for relief of ongoing pain after procedures17
- Designing, making and fitting prosthodontic appliances such as space maintainers, bridges, and dentures, or writing fabrication instructions or prescriptions for dental prosthetic technicians15
- Diagnosing diseases, injuries, irregularities and malformations of teeth and associated structures in the mouth and jaw using a range of methods such as radiographs, salivary tests and medical histories14
- Providing preventative oral health care such as periodontal treatments, fluoride applications and oral health promotion12
- Providing surgical treatments such as extraction of teeth, biopsy of tissue, and performing orthodontic treatment12
- Restoring oral function with removable and fixed oral prostheses11
- Measuring and taking impressions of patients' jaws and teeth in order to determine the shape and size of dental prostheses11
- Providing restorative oral care such as implants, complex crown and bridge restorations, and orthodontics, and repairing damaged and decayed teeth10
- Administering anaesthetics to limit the amount of pain experienced by patients during procedures7
How much does it affect you?
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- Supervising dental hygienists, dental assistants and other staff.(27)
- Educating patients and families on dental hygiene, nutrition and other measures to take care of oral health(26)
- Assisting in diagnosing general diseases having oral manifestations such as diabetes(21)
- Prescribing medication for relief of ongoing pain after procedures(17)
- Designing, making and fitting prosthodontic appliances such as space maintainers, bridges, and dentures, or writing fabrication instructions or prescriptions for dental prosthetic technicians(15)
- Diagnosing diseases, injuries, irregularities and malformations of teeth and associated structures in the mouth and jaw using a range of methods such as radiographs, salivary tests and medical histories(14)
- Providing preventative oral health care such as periodontal treatments, fluoride applications and oral health promotion(12)
- Providing surgical treatments such as extraction of teeth, biopsy of tissue, and performing orthodontic treatment(12)
- Restoring oral function with removable and fixed oral prostheses(11)
- Measuring and taking impressions of patients' jaws and teeth in order to determine the shape and size of dental prostheses(11)
- Providing restorative oral care such as implants, complex crown and bridge restorations, and orthodontics, and repairing damaged and decayed teeth(10)
- Administering anaesthetics to limit the amount of pain experienced by patients during procedures(7)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 15.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Supervising dental hygienists, dental assistants and other staff.
- • Educating patients and families on dental hygiene, nutrition and other measures to take care of oral health
- • Administering anaesthetics to limit the amount of pain experienced by patients during procedures
- • Providing restorative oral care such as implants, complex crown and bridge restorations, and orthodontics, and repairing damaged and decayed teeth
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Health professionals group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Health professionals |
|---|---|
| Norway | 6.1% · 178 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 5.3% · 276 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 5.1% · 246 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 5.0% · 155 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 5.0% · 141 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 4.8% · 248 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 4.5% · 1,529 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 4.2% · 416 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 4.2% · 188 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 4.2% · 218 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 4.1% · 60 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 3.8% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 3.8% · 838 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 3.7% · 161 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 3.6% · 614 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 3.5% · 12 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 3.5% · 18 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 3.2% · 938 thousand · 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 3.1% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 3.1% · 237 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 3.0% · 88 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 3.0% · 21 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 2.9% · 29 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 2.9% · 150 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 2.8% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 2.7% · 1,149 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 2.4% · 41 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 1.9% · 88 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 1.7% · 45 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 1.7% · 45 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 1.6% · 395 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Professionals). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland6,389
- Luxembourg5,274
- Ireland4,873
- Germany4,807
- Belgium4,799
- Denmark4,446
- Norway4,237
- Austria4,099
- Netherlands4,031
- Iceland3,875
- EU273,850
- France3,791
- Finland3,769
- Romania3,559
- Sweden3,416
- Spain3,413
- Slovenia3,326
- Italy3,305
- Cyprus3,271
- Lithuania3,221
- Croatia2,890
- Czechia2,871
- Malta2,825
- Poland2,783
- Hungary2,777
- Portugal2,755
- Latvia2,671
- Estonia2,599
- Bulgaria2,359
- Slovakia2,345
- Greece2,321
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Health professionals group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?