Also called: Restorative Dental Specialist
Rebuilds smiles with crowns, bridges, dentures, and implants, including after cancer or trauma.
Designs a full set of new teeth for a patient who lost theirs, matching shade, shape, and bite, and works closely with dental lab technicians to get every detail right.
Estimate; BLS top-codes many dental specialist wages.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 11 years after high school. Bachelor's, 4-year dental school (DDS/DMD), then a 3-year prosthodontics residency.
Ways in: 4-year college, Professional school. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pre-Dental.
Growing about average (about 4% over 10 years).
Low risk for 10 years. Digital design and milling speed up crowns and dentures; fitting, bite and appearance judgments stay human.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Chemistry, Art or ceramics, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1024.
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