Dental Hygienist
Administer oral hygiene care to patients. Assess patient oral hygiene problems or needs and maintain health records. Advise patients on oral health maintenance and disease prevention. May provide advanced care such as providing fluoride treatment or administering topical anesthesia.
This score estimates how exposed the tasks in a role are to current and near-term AI capabilities. It does not predict whether a specific person will lose a job.
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Most exposed task
Maintain patient recall system.
Automatable 60/100 exposure
Most durable task
Feel lymph nodes under patient's chin to detect swelling or tenderness that could indicate presence of oral cancer.
Durable 8/100 exposure
Useful next step
Make one change to the task mix
Pilot AI on one augmentable task, then document the judgment, relationships, and accountability you still own.
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Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.
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Maintain patient recall system.60
Augmentable tasks
Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.
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Record patient charts55
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Record and review patient medical histories.55
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Expose and develop x-ray film.50
Most durable tasks
Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.
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Clean calcareous deposits, accretions, and stains from teeth and beneath margins of gums, using dental instruments.8
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Feel lymph nodes under patient's chin to detect swelling or tenderness that could indicate presence of oral cancer.8
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Feel and visually examine gums for sores and signs of disease.10
Task exposure values and classifications are published, versioned estimates audited against the anchored rubric. This page reads them from the data release rather than generating them at request time. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.
What this means
A score of 26 puts Dental Hygienist in the second quartile of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this level is about the mix: 1 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 5 augmentable, and 14 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.
Lower-exposure adjacent roles
No adjacent role in the current data release is at least 10 points lower with ≥50% skill overlap — we don’t label anything “safer” unless the data supports it.
Labor-market context
- $81,400median wage
- +7.0%projected growth
Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.
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Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.
How this score was calculated
The score is the plain average of the AI-exposure values of this role’s 20 analyzed tasks (equal task weights in this release — no hidden factors):
- Automatable 1 task, averaging 60/100 exposure
- Augmentable 5 tasks, averaging 49/100 exposure
- Durable 14 tasks, averaging 15/100 exposure
score = (1×60 + 5×49 + 14×15) ÷ 20 ≈ 26
Every task’s exposure value was scored against a published anchored rubric that scores tasks as actually performed — physical, in-person, and accountability requirements included (data release 2026.07.12-r2). The band (Moderate) is a corpus quartile; the percentile is tie-aware across all 968 occupations.
FAQ — Dental Hygienist
- Will AI replace Dental Hygienist?
- This score cannot predict whether this occupation or any individual job will be replaced. It shows which tasks current and near-term AI can perform or accelerate, which tasks remain more durable, and where a worker can adapt. Employer decisions, demand, regulation, and how the role changes are outside the score.
- What does a score of 26 mean for a Dental Hygienist?
- It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 26 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the second quartile of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.
- Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?
- The highest-exposure tasks are: Maintain patient recall system. Exposure comes from the published, rubric-scored data release rather than being generated when you open this page.
- Which parts of this job are most durable?
- The most durable responsibilities are: Clean calcareous deposits, accretions, and stains from teeth and beneath margins of gums, using dental instruments; Feel lymph nodes under patient's chin to detect swelling or tenderness that could indicate presence of oral cancer; Feel and visually examine gums for sores and signs of disease. Durable tasks typically depend on judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability.
- Is this score personalized to me?
- No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.
Score version jr-v1 · data release 2026.07.12-r2 · updated 2026-07-13 · baseline mapping: 16 of 20 tasks carry source-level provenance · methodology