Will AI replace Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons?

What this score means

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons is among the least exposed roles in Healthcare. Most of what the job involves still sits outside what current AI can do, even as the tools around it keep changing. At 16 out of 100 it scores 10 points below the Healthcare average of 26. Across the 3 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 8 to 22, so the score is a weighted consensus rather than any single figure.

The number is a consensus estimate for the typical version of the role, built from published academic and industry research scored occupation by occupation. It is not a prediction about any individual. How scoring works

What this job actually involves

Exposure follows the work itself rather than the job title, so it is worth seeing what the role is made of. These are the tasks O*NET records for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, most central first, showing 12 of 14.

• 01Administer general and local anesthetics.
• 02Collaborate with other professionals, such as restorative dentists and orthodontists, to plan treatment.
• 03Evaluate the position of the wisdom teeth to determine whether problems exist currently or might occur in the future.
• 04Perform surgery to prepare the mouth for dental implants and to aid in the regeneration of deficient bone and gum tissues.
• 05Remove impacted, damaged, and non-restorable teeth.
• 06Treat infections of the oral cavity, salivary glands, jaws, and neck.
• 07Remove tumors and other abnormal growths of the oral and facial regions, using surgical instruments.
• 08Provide emergency treatment of facial injuries including facial lacerations, intra-oral lacerations, and fractured facial bones.
• 09Treat problems affecting the oral mucosa, such as mouth ulcers and infections.
• 10Restore form and function by moving skin, bone, nerves, and other tissues from other parts of the body to reconstruct the jaws and face.
• 11Perform surgery on the mouth and jaws to treat conditions such as cleft lip, cleft palate, and jaw growth problems.
• 12Perform minor cosmetic procedures, such as chin and cheekbone enhancements.

Task statements from O*NET by the National Center for O*NET Development, used under CC BY 4.0. The tasks are descriptive; the exposure score above is ours.

The research behind this score

This baseline aggregates 3 research sources that scored Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons for AI and automation exposure. More recent, higher confidence studies carry more weight in the final number.

• 01Anthropic Economic Index 2026 - AI Task Exposure · 2026
• 02GPTs are GPTs: Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs · 2024
• 03AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023

Also covers

Dental Surgeon · Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) · Maxillofacial Surgeon · Oral Surgeon · Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon (OMS) · Surgeon

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