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Dental assistants

Also called Chairside dental assistant, Registered dental assistant, Certified dental assistant, Expanded duty dental assistant, EDDA

In brief

In May 2025, BLS counted 387,790 US dental assistants, with median pay of $48,070 a year. Of the BLS counts since 2021, the May 2025 count is the highest. The earliest figure here is an estimate of 60,000 from 1960, not measured the same way as today's count. The last full technology era for dental assistants: Dental practice management software + CBCT 3D imaging, 2005 to 2022.

What the sources say

Official outlook

BLS projects employment to grow 7.4% from 2025 to 2035.

BLS Employment Projections 2025-35

AI exposure studies

  • 10% of this job's tasks are exposed to large language models. Not a forecast of job losses. Eloundou and others, 2023
  • 0.51 estimated probability that the whole occupation could be computerised, over an unspecified number of years. Not a forecast of job losses. Frey and Osborne, 2013

Since the 2013 prediction

In 2013, Frey and Osborne put this job's probability of computerisation at 0.51. BLS counted 309,540 of these jobs in May 2013 and 387,790 in May 2025. The count moved sharply in one step, May 2020 to May 2021, when BLS changed how it estimates these counts, so no change is derived here.

Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35. BLS publishes these counts as yearly survey snapshots and cautions against reading them as a precise trend. In May 2021 BLS changed how it estimates these counts (a model-based method using three years of survey data) and moved fully to the 2018 occupation codes, so part of a change across 2021 can come from the method rather than the work.

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Known then as Dental nurse / lady assistant (Edmund Kells model)
Known then as Dental assistant (informal, no credential)
Known then as Dental Assistant / Certified Dental Assistant (DANB, voluntary)
Known then as Chairside Dental Assistant / Expanded-Function Dental Assistant (EFDA)
Known then as Dental Assistants (BLS SOC 31-9091)
Known today as Dental Assistants (BLS SOC 31-9091)
Projected to still be called Dental Assistants (BLS SOC 31-9091)
Data from the May 2025 survey
US Employment
388K
Est.

Stated in source: BLS OEWS

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Median Annual Wage
$48,070
Est.

≈ $46,838 in 2024 prices (derived by us, CPI-adjusted)

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Beat · 1885

C. Edmund Kells, practicing dentistry at 833 Canal Street in New Orleans, hires Malvina Cueria, a patient of his, to assist him chairside, creating what is widely cited as the first instance of a trained dental assistant in the United States. Kells called her his 'lady assistant.' The terms he reached for were borrowed from nursing, from secretarial work, from domestic service: there were no existing words for what he had invented. The assistant mixed amalgam, arranged instruments, held the patient's attention, and kept the field clear. Kells wrote about the model extensively in dental journals, advocating that all dentists adopt it. Most did not, immediately: the solo-practice norm was deep and the cost of an additional person was real. But the idea was in circulation.

Beat · 1896

Edmund Kells takes the first dental X-ray in America: eleven months after Wilhelm Röntgen announced the discovery of X-rays in November 1895. Kells exposes a glass photographic plate against the cheek of a patient and produces an image of the teeth. The year is not incidental: the dentist who created the chairside assistant model is also the person who introduced diagnostic radiography to dentistry. Both technologies share a common logic, extending the dentist's capacity to perceive and to do. Within five years, dental X-rays would be in routine clinical use in major US dental schools. The dental assistant's job now included darkroom work.

Beat · 1924

Juliette Southard founds the American Dental Assistants Association in Chicago, giving the occupation its first professional organization. Southard had been working as a dental assistant for years and believed the role needed what nursing had: a name, standards, and an organization willing to define and defend them. The ADAA's founding mission was educational, establishing curricula for dental assistant training programs, and professional, distinguishing the trained, credentialed dental assistant from anyone who happened to work in a dental office. The ADAA is still active as of 2026 and remains the primary professional body for dental assistants in the United States.

Beat · 1948

The Dental Assisting National Board is established and launches the first Certified Dental Assistant (CDA) examination. The credential is voluntary, no state requires it for employment as a dental assistant, but it establishes a national standard for what a dental assistant should know: infection control, chairside assisting, dental radiography, and preventive dentistry. The CDA remains the primary national voluntary credential for dental assistants as of 2026, held by a minority of the workforce (approximately 30-40%) because the majority of dental offices do not require it for hire.

Beat · 1987

Trophy Radiologie of France introduces the RVG (RadioVisioGraphy) system, the first commercial digital dental radiograph sensor. The sensor, a small solid-state detector connected by a cable to a computer, replaces the silver halide film that had been used in dental offices since Edmund Kells's first X-ray in 1896. Digital radiography eliminates the darkroom: images appear on the monitor within seconds, can be magnified, contrast-adjusted, and stored electronically. For dental assistants, the darkroom skill set that had been part of the job for ninety years disappears, replaced by sensor positioning technique and software operation. The patient's radiation dose drops significantly. US adoption is initially slow due to cost; by 2010, digital radiography has become the default for new equipment purchases.

Beat · 2009

Minnesota becomes the first US state to license dental therapists: mid-level oral health providers who can perform basic restorations and simple extractions in underserved communities. The dental therapist model, adapted from New Zealand and Scandinavia, expands to 12+ states by 2024, including Alaska, Maine, Vermont, Michigan, and Oregon. Dental therapists work in team-based settings that require dental assistant support; the expansion of this practice model creates demand for dental assistants in community health centers and tribal health settings that had previously operated with limited dental workforce.

Beat · 2022

Pearl receives FDA 510(k) clearance for Second Opinion in February 2022; Overjet receives FDA 510(k) clearance in March 2022. Both systems use deep learning trained on millions of annotated dental radiographs to identify caries, bone loss, periapical pathology, and calculus on intraoral bitewing and periapical X-rays. By late 2024, Pearl reports deployment in over 10,000 US dental practices. The AI reads the same digital images the dental assistant acquires during the normal radiograph workflow and displays annotations to the dentist at the time of diagnosis. The dental assistant's acquisition task is unchanged; the AI inserts itself between the image and the dentist's interpretation. This is the fastest transition of AI from research to commercial deployment in the dental field, from first published studies (roughly 2017-2019) to FDA clearance and broad commercial adoption in approximately five years.

Beat · 2024

BLS projects +8% employment growth for dental assistants 2024-34, citing aging-population restorative demand, ACA pediatric dental coverage, and dental therapist practice expansion. The AI dental imaging market has expanded beyond Pearl and Overjet to include Denti.AI, VideaHealth, and AI modules from major dental practice management vendors (Dentrix Ascend). AI-assisted diagnosis is becoming a standard feature pitch in new digital radiography equipment. The dental assistant workflow in 2024 is the same as 1985 in its physical core (four-handed dentistry, sterilization, suction, instrument handoff) augmented by digital imaging, AI annotation, and practice management software. The BLS projection does not model robotics or autonomous dental procedures because no commercially deployed systems exist.

How to read this number

OEWS is a point-in-time survey snapshot, not a continuous time series; BLS advises against using it for year-over-year trend comparison.

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Cited forecasts · present → 2035

Will AI replace dental assistants? What the research says

Each figure is stated by the named source; we publish no forecasts of our own. Where sources disagree, we show the disagreement rather than an average.

Each figure is stated by the named source; we publish no forecasts of our own. Where sources disagree, the spread is the honest signal.

What published forecasts say
Forecast change in the number of people doing this work, as published by each named source. Bars share one scale on every role, centred on zero and reaching the end at ±30%. Grey marks a small change, 3% or less either way.
BLS Employment Projections 2025-35
→ 2035
+7.4%
BLS National Employment Matrix, 2025-35 cycle, line for SOC 31-9091 (Dental assistants): 388.6 thousand jobs in 2025, projected 417.4 thousand in 2035, a change of +28.8 thousand (+7.4%). Matrix employment counts all jobs in the occupation, including self-employed workers (0.1% of this occupation in 2025). The average for all occupations in this cycle is +3.5%.
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How exposed is this work to AI (research measures)
Scores as published by each study. Each row says what it measures. These measure what AI could technically do, not forecasts of jobs lost.
Frey & Osborne (2013), "The Future of Employment"
2013 study · Probability of computerisation (2013 model)
51%
probability
What this measures

Published appendix value for SOC 2010 31-9091 Dental Assistants: probability of computerisation 0.51, rank 303 of 702 (rank 1 is least computerisable). Frey and Osborne estimated in 2013, with a Gaussian-process classifier on O*NET variables, how likely the whole occupation is to be technically automatable over "some unspecified number of years, perhaps a decade or two". It is a probability for the occupation, not a share of tasks and not a forecast of jobs lost.

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Eloundou et al. (2023), "GPTs are GPTs"
2023 study · Share of tasks exposed to LLMs (β, human-rated)
10%
of tasks
What this measures

Published occupation-level exposure from the paper's occ_level.csv for O*NET-SOC 31-9091.00 Dental Assistants. Shown: human-rated β = 0.1, the share of the occupation's tasks an LLM could do in at least half the time at equal quality, counting tasks that need LLM-powered software at half weight (β = E1 + 0.5 × E2). Other published measures for this occupation: human-rated α (LLM alone) 0 and γ (all LLM-assisted) 0.2; GPT-4-rated β 0.267. This measures how much of the work an LLM could touch, not how many jobs disappear.

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Today, in this role

What's changing day to day for dental assistants

Three parts of your work where AI is already doing real lifting, and what stays yours.

AI is sitting alongside you hereRun pre-appointment insurance eligibility checks using AI verification tools (Overjet) that automatically query 300+ payers and match CDT procedure codes to benefits

Run pre-appointment insurance eligibility checks using AI verification tools (Overjet) that automatically query 300+ payers and match CDT procedure codes to benefits; review flagged exceptions where benefit details are unclear or coverage has lapsed before the patient arrives.[10],[11]

Tools picking this up
Where your edge is

Focus on the small share of verifications the AI flags as uncertain or denied: contact the payer directly, understand the specific limitation (missing tooth clause, waiting period, frequency limit), and brief the front desk so the patient's financial conversation is accurate before they sit in the chair.

AI is sitting alongside you hereSupport periodontal charting by operating voice AI systems (Denti.AI Voice Perio, Pearl Voice) that auto-transcribe probing depths, bleeding, recession, furcation, and mobility as the hygienist calls values aloud -- then verify the completed chart for data-entry errors before it saves to the patient record.

Support periodontal charting by operating voice AI systems (Denti.AI Voice Perio, Pearl Voice) that auto-transcribe probing depths, bleeding, recession, furcation, and mobility as the hygienist calls values aloud -- then verify the completed chart for data-entry errors before it saves to the patient record.[12],[7],[8]

Where your edge is

Shift from passive transcription to active QA: confirm the AI captured unusual values correctly (patients with heavy accents, noisy room conditions), flag any missing tooth annotations, and understand what the chart numbers mean clinically so errors are caught before treatment planning.

AI is sitting alongside you hereComplete treatment records after each appointment: review AI-drafted clinical notes from the Denti.AI Scribe or Pearl Voice ambient capture for accuracy, confirm procedure codes, attach radiographic findings, and finalize the chart so it's claim-ready before the patient checks out.

Complete treatment records after each appointment: review AI-drafted clinical notes from the Denti.AI Scribe or Pearl Voice ambient capture for accuracy, confirm procedure codes, attach radiographic findings, and finalize the chart so it's claim-ready before the patient checks out.[13],[8]

Where your edge is

Learn your practice's CDT code set and common insurance narrative requirements. AI scribes sometimes misassign codes or omit the clinical justification insurers require for coverage; an assistant who can spot and fix those errors reduces claim denials and rework.

Where dental assistants go next

Natural next steps for someone with your foundation: not exits, evolutions.

What each move takes

A direction you could grow

Dental Hygienists

Dental assistants already perform many of the clinical support tasks adjacent to hygiene: radiography, perio charting support, instrument management, and patient education. The pivot requires completing an accredited dental hygiene associate degree program (a few years) and passing the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination. Experienced assistants enter hygiene programs with a concrete advantage: they understand the clinical environment and already know dental anatomy, terminology, and radiography fundamentals. BLS projects growth for dental hygienists through 2034, and hygienists who operate AI perio tools (Denti.AI, Pearl Voice) command a further productivity premium.

What you'd add
  • · Accredited dental hygiene associate degree (2 years, CODA-accredited program)
  • · National Board Dental Hygiene Examination (NBDHE) licensure
  • · Root planing, scaling, and therapeutic periodontal procedures
  • · Local anesthesia administration (permitted in most states with additional certification)
  • · AI perio charting tool operation (Denti.AI Voice Perio, Pearl Voice)
What it takesSome new skills to pick up
Tools of the era

How has the work of dental assistants changed since 1885?

The tools that defined the work, one line per era. Select an era to see how it reshaped the work.

  • Chairside assistance: instrument tray + amalgam mixing by hand (Edmund Kells model)

    C. Edmund Kells introduced the chairside dental assistant in 1885 in New Orleans: the first systematic use of a trained helper to extend a dentist's capacity. The assistant mixed amalgam by hand (mercury + silver alloy in a mortar), arranged the instrument tray in order of use, handed instruments on request, maintained the operating field, and managed the patient's anxiety and positioning. The instruments themselves were simple: mirrors, explorers, excavators, and forceps. Sterilization was chemical rather than autoclave: instruments were submerged in carbolic acid or alcohol. The dental office of 1885-1920 had no radiographs, no electricity, no suction, and no local anesthetic that worked reliably. Kells's dental X-ray in 1896 added a new task, exposing and developing glass photographic plates, to the assistant's duties.

  • Slow-speed dental drill (belt-driven) + novocaine (1905) + bitewing radiographs (1925)

    The belt-driven dental engine, a slow-speed drill powered by a foot pedal or electric motor, became common in US dental offices by the 1920s. Novocaine (procaine), introduced commercially in 1905 and widely adopted through the 1910s-1920s, transformed the patient experience and the assistant's role: the assistant now prepared and loaded the syringe for injection, a task requiring sterile technique and measured dosing. The bitewing radiograph technique, published by dentist H. Raper in 1925, standardized intraoral X-ray positioning and made the radiograph a routine diagnostic tool rather than a specialty procedure. The assistant's X-ray tasks became routine rather than experimental. The ADAA was founded in 1924 by Juliette Southard in Chicago, formalizing the occupation with membership, education standards, and eventually a code of ethics.

  • Certified Dental Assistant (DANB 1948) + air-driven high-speed handpiece (1957)

    The Dental Assisting National Board was established in 1948 and launched the first Certified Dental Assistant examination, giving the occupation its first national voluntary credential and a defined body of knowledge. The air-turbine high-speed handpiece, commercialized in 1957 by John Walsh in New Zealand and adopted rapidly in the US through the early 1960s, rotated roughly ten times faster than the belt-driven drill and made cavity preparation dramatically faster and less traumatic. But speed created a new problem: heat and aerosol. High-speed cutting generates a spray of water, saliva, blood, and dental debris. Managing that aerosol became the dental assistant's primary chairside technical challenge: the saliva ejector (suction) and the air-water syringe, used in coordination with the dentist's handpiece, was the foundation of what would be codified as four-handed dentistry.

  • Four-handed dentistry (codified 1960s) + autoclave sterilization standard

    Four-handed dentistry (the systematic method in which two operators [dentist + assistant] work simultaneously in each quadrant of the mouth, minimizing motion and instrument transfer time) was codified as a clinical technique and teaching standard in US dental schools through the 1960s and 1970s. The operative dentistry research group at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, is credited with formalizing the method. For dental assistants, four-handed dentistry elevated the role from helper to technique partner: the assistant had a specific instrument transfer zone, a specific suction position, and a specific sequencing responsibility. Autoclave sterilization (steam under pressure) became the standard sterilization method for dental instruments through the 1970s-1980s, replacing chemical immersion. The assistant's sterilization duties became more technically defined: packaging instruments, running the autoclave cycle, verifying sterility indicators, maintaining the sterilization log.

  • Digital dental radiography (Trophy Radiologie, France, 1987) + OSHA infection control (1991)

    Trophy Radiologie of France introduced the first commercial digital dental radiographic sensor (RVG system) in 1987, replacing silver halide film with a solid-state sensor that transmitted an image to a computer monitor within seconds. US adoption was initially slow, the sensor was expensive and the image resolution lower than film, but accelerated through the 1990s as sensor technology improved and practices recognized the workflow benefits: no darkroom, no chemical processing, instant image review, and the ability to electronically store, retrieve, and share radiographs. By the mid-2000s, digital radiography had become mainstream in new dental equipment purchases. For dental assistants, digital radiography eliminated the darkroom skill set (film processing, chemical mixing, safelight maintenance) and replaced it with sensor positioning, digital image acquisition, and basic practice management software operation. OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard (1991) mandated universal precautions in all healthcare settings (gloves, masks, protective eyewear) formalized infection control training, and made the dental assistant the front-line enforcer of barrier precautions.

    Effect on the work

    Digital radiography eliminated several minutes of film processing time per patient visit in practices with high radiograph volumes, shifting that time to chairside patient care and administrative tasks.

  • Dental practice management software (Dentrix, Eaglesoft) + CBCT 3D imaging

    Dentrix (Henry Schein) and Eaglesoft (Patterson Dental) became the dominant dental practice management systems through the 2000s-2010s, integrating scheduling, billing, electronic charting, digital radiograph storage, and patient communication into a single platform. For dental assistants, practice management software added a new administrative layer: entering treatment codes, managing the radiograph library within the software, scheduling follow-up appointments, and processing electronic claims. Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) 3D imaging entered dental practice in the 2000s (Imaging Sciences CBCT unit, FDA cleared 2001) and became more affordable by the 2010s; dental assistants in CBCT-equipped practices added 3D scan acquisition to their radiographic duties. The CBCT scan was the highest-radiation procedure a dental assistant would perform and required formal training that most states mandated.

  • AI dental radiograph analysis: Pearl Second Opinion + Overjet (FDA cleared 2022)

    In 2022, two companies received FDA 510(k) clearance for AI-assisted dental radiograph analysis: Pearl (Second Opinion, cleared February 2022) and Overjet (cleared March 2022). Both systems analyze intraoral bitewing and periapical radiographs using computer vision trained on millions of annotated dental images, identifying caries, bone loss, periapical pathology, and calculus with sensitivity that in published studies rivals that of experienced dentists. By 2024, Pearl reported deployment in thousands of dental practices in the United States. The AI system receives the same digital radiograph images that the dental assistant acquires during the normal workflow; the AI's annotations appear as overlays on the practice management software's radiograph display, available to the dentist during diagnosis. Denti.AI is a third entrant. The dental assistant's radiograph acquisition task is unchanged (positioning the sensor, instructing the patient to bite, initiating the exposure) but the downstream diagnostic step now has an AI layer between the image and the dentist's interpretation. The hands-on chairside tasks (sterilization, instrument handoff, suction, patient preparation, impression-taking) are entirely unaffected.

    Effect on the work

    The AI does not replace the dentist's clinical judgment but increases detection consistency and creates a documentation trail: potentially medicolegally significant.

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Dental Assistants employment and pay by year

On record since1885
Latest US employment387,790 (May 2025)Source: BLS OEWS May 2025Official statisticReport an error
Latest US median pay$48,070 (May 2025)Source: BLS OEWS May 2025Official statisticReport an error
Outlook+7.4% by 2035Source: BLS Employment Projections 2025-35Official statisticReport an error

In other countries

The latest figure each country's statistics agency publishes for this job. Each uses its own occupation definition, survey basis and currency, so the numbers are not directly comparable with each other or with the US figures.

  • Canada (NOC 33100)

    Employment, 2020
    36,555, Statistics Canada Census 2021 Official statistic Report an errorStatistics Canada Census of Population 2021: number of persons with employment income in NOC 33100 Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants, Canada, reference year 2020. A recipients basis (anyone with employment income during the year), slightly broader than a point-in-time employed count. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
    Median pay, 2020
    C$39,200, Statistics Canada Census 2021 Official statistic Report an errorStatistics Canada Census of Population 2021 (Table 98-10-0586): median employment income for NOC 33100 Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants, Canada, reference year 2020, full-year full-time workers (the basis comparable to the US OEWS full-time median). Statistics Canada Open Licence.

  • United Kingdom (UK SOC 6133)

    Employment, 2025
    53,000, ONS ASHE 2025 Official statistic Report an errorONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Table 14): employee jobs in SOC 6133 Dental nurses, United Kingdom, 2025 (ASHE "number of jobs", thousands x1000; excludes self-employment). Open Government Licence v3.0.
    Median pay, 2025
    £22,615, ONS ASHE 2025 Official statistic Report an errorONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Table 14.7a): median gross annual pay for all employee jobs in SOC 6133 Dental nurses, United Kingdom, 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.

  • Australia (ANZSCO 4232)

    Employment, 2025
    30,900, ABS Labour Force Survey Official statistic Report an errorABS Labour Force Survey (Detailed), table EQ08: employed persons in ANZSCO 4232 Dental Assistants, national (summed across sex and state/territory), annual average of 4 quarterly estimates.
    Median pay, 2025
    A$62,972, ABS Employee Earnings May 2025 Official statistic Report an errorAnnualised (x52) from A$1,211 median weekly earnings. ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025: median pay for full-time non-managerial employees paid at the adult rate, before tax. Surfaced via the Jobs and Skills Australia occupation profile.
View all 26 years of cited US data, each linked to its source
YearUS employmentAnnual pay (median unless marked)SourceReport
196060,000n/aEst., American Dental Assistants Association Researched contextReport
1980152,000$9,500Est., BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook Researched contextReport
2000250,870$25,970BLS OEWS 2000 Official statisticReport
2003272,030$27,700BLS OEWS May 2003 Official statisticReport
2004264,820$28,330BLS OEWS May 2004 Official statisticReport
2005270,720$29,520BLS OEWS May 2005 Official statisticReport
2006277,040$30,220BLS OEWS May 2006 Official statisticReport
2007283,680$31,550BLS OEWS May 2007 Official statisticReport
2008293,090$32,380BLS OEWS May 2008 Official statisticReport
2009294,020$33,230BLS OEWS May 2009 Official statisticReport
2010294,030$33,470BLS OEWS May 2010 Official statisticReport
2011296,810$34,140BLS OEWS May 2011 Official statisticReport
2012300,160$34,500BLS OEWS May 2012 Official statisticReport
2013309,540$34,900BLS OEWS May 2013 Official statisticReport
2014314,330$35,390BLS OEWS May 2014 Official statisticReport
2015323,110$35,980BLS OEWS May 2015 Official statisticReport
2016327,290$36,940BLS OEWS May 2016 Official statisticReport
2017337,160$37,630BLS OEWS May 2017 Official statisticReport
2018341,060$38,660BLS OEWS May 2018 Official statisticReport
2019351,470$40,080BLS OEWS May 2019 Official statisticReport
2020312,140$41,180BLS OEWS May 2020 (employment) Official statisticBLS OEWS 2020 (pay) Official statisticReport
2021347,170$38,660BLS OEWS May 2021 Official statisticReport
2022363,880$44,820BLS OEWS May 2022 Official statisticReport
2023370,690$46,540BLS OEWS May 2023 Official statisticReport
2024375,430$47,300BLS OEWS May 2024 Official statisticReport
2025387,790$48,070BLS OEWS May 2025 Official statisticReport
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