AI Automation Index

Will AI Replace Prosthodontists?

Task-level automation exposure for Prosthodontists: 12 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.

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Automation Exposure

13% weighted task index

12 of 12 tasks scored

Median Salary

$311,180 / year

BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation

Employment Level

Low

870 people hold this job — size, not growth

Projected 2025–35

+5.8% employment change

0 openings a year · BLS line item

What the score is made of

Each task is mapped to its work activities, scored for AI automation potential, and weighted by how important those activities are to the job. These are the components.

Automation potential 13%

Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.

Physical work 27%

Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.

Judgment & influence 45%

Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.

Routine administration 0%

Share in documenting, recording, and administrative activities.

Rewritten by O*NET 0%

Share of weighted tasks O*NET rewrote in a recent update. Reported, not folded into the score.

Consequence of error 32/100 Moderate

O*NET's own rating of how serious an uncorrectable mistake would be here — respondents, not us. Deliberately not in the index: the score measures what AI can do with the task content, and multiplying it by stakes would be our judgment dressed as data.

Constituent Task Mix

12 tasks for this occupation, weighted by work-activity importance. Shares below are of total task weight, not task count.

High exposure (≥ 60% of the task is automatable) 0%

0 tasks

Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 9%

1 tasks

Low exposure (below 35%) 91%

11 tasks

How would you survive?

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Emerging & rewritten tasks

Tasks O*NET added or rewrote for this occupation in its recent updates (05/2025 – 08/2026), with who proposed them. Additions are not in the scored task inventory — they are new work O*NET is still measuring, so they appear here and nowhere in the index. A Revision replaces a task that is scored, which is why only those move the "Rewritten by O*NET" share.

New 08/2024 · Incumbent

Consult with patients about treatment options.
New 08/2024 · Incumbent

Create treatment plans for patients.

Constituent Tasks

#23996 · Core · 13% automatable

Examine patients to diagnose oral health conditions and diseases.

visual inspection — Physical exam of bodies requires hands-on presence

Check physical condition of people or animals. Examine mouth, teeth, gums, or related facial structures.

#7743 · Core · 10% automatable

Fit prostheses to patients, making any necessary adjustments and modifications.

physical manipulation — Hands-on fitting of prostheses to bodies

Adjust prostheses or other assistive devices.

#20246 · Core · 8% automatable

Replace missing teeth and associated oral structures with permanent fixtures, such as implant-supported prostheses, crowns and bridges, or removable fixtures, such as dentures.

physical manipulation — Fine manual adjustment of dental appliances in mouth

Adjust dental devices or appliances to ensure fit.

#7745 · Core · 15% automatable

Measure and take impressions of patients' jaws and teeth to determine the shape and size of dental prostheses, using face bows, dental articulators, recording devices, and other materials.

physical manipulation — Measuring physiological attributes needs hands-on devices

Measure the physical or physiological attributes of patients.

#7746 · Core · 40% automatable

Collaborate with general dentists, specialists, and other health professionals to develop solutions to dental and oral health concerns.

interpersonal — Treatment planning collaboration is accountable clinical work

Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.

#7744 · Core · 28% automatable

Design and fabricate dental prostheses, or supervise dental technicians and laboratory bench workers who construct the devices.

decision support — AI assists concepts; device design requires regulatory and physical testing

Design medical devices or appliances.

#7748 · Core · 8% automatable

Restore function and aesthetics to traumatic injury survivors, or to individuals with diseases or congenital disabilities.

physical manipulation — Hands-on treatment of acute conditions

Treat acute illnesses, infections, or injuries. Treat dental problems or diseases.

#7747 · Core · 8% automatable

Repair, reline, or rebase dentures.

physical manipulation — Fine manual adjustment of dental appliances in mouth

Adjust dental devices or appliances to ensure fit.

#7749 · Core · 4% automatable

Use bonding technology on the surface of the teeth to change tooth shape or to close gaps.

physical manipulation — Dental procedures require manual dexterity

Treat dental problems or diseases.

#7750 · Core · 4% automatable

Treat facial pain and jaw joint problems.

physical manipulation — Dental procedures require manual dexterity

Treat dental problems or diseases.

#7751 · Core · 4% automatable

Place veneers onto teeth to conceal defects.

physical manipulation — Dental procedures require manual dexterity

Treat dental problems or diseases.

#7752 · Core · 4% automatable

Bleach discolored teeth to brighten and whiten them.

physical manipulation — Dental procedures require manual dexterity

Treat dental problems or diseases.

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Method

How this was scored

1. Tasks. O*NET task statements for this occupation, from a release whose newest record is dated 08/2026.
2. Work activities. Each task maps to 1–5 Detailed Work Activities; each activity belongs to one of 41 Generalized Work Activities that O*NET rates for importance (1–5) in this occupation.
3. Automation potential. Every work activity carries one score for how far current AI can perform it end-to-end. Tasks inherit the mean of their activities.
4. Weighting. Task weight = 0.35 + 0.65 × (importance − 1)/4, scaled by how often the task is performed and by 0.7 for Supplemental tasks. Importance is the task's own O*NET rating where it exists (18,369 of 18,838 tasks); the rest inherit their work activities' importance. The index is the weighted mean.

Check: across the 910 occupations where O*NET also rates how far machine speed sets the pace, this index moves opposite to it (Spearman ρ = -0.49). The more a job is paced by equipment, the less of its task content AI can address — the relationship you would expect if the scoring is working.

Sources · O*NET 31.0 (task records to 08/2026) · BLS OEWS May 2025 · BLS projections 2025-2035 · rubric v2.1 · tasks for O*NET, not a forecast

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