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Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
Perform surgery and related procedures on the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial regions to treat diseases, injuries, or defects. May diagnose problems of the oral and maxillofacial regions. May perform surgery to improve function or appearance.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Administer general and local anesthetics.Mostly human for now
- 02Remove impacted, damaged, and non-restorable teeth.Mostly human for now
- 03Evaluate the position of the wisdom teeth to determine whether problems exist currently or might occur in the future.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Treat infections of the oral cavity, salivary glands, jaws, and neck.Mostly human for now
- 05Collaborate with other professionals, such as restorative dentists and orthodontists, to plan treatment.Mostly human for now
- 06Perform surgery to prepare the mouth for dental implants and to aid in the regeneration of deficient bone and gum tissues.Mostly human for now
- 07Remove tumors and other abnormal growths of the oral and facial regions, using surgical instruments.Mostly human for now
- 08Provide emergency treatment of facial injuries including facial lacerations, intra-oral lacerations, and fractured facial bones.Mostly human for now
- 09Treat problems affecting the oral mucosa, such as mouth ulcers and infections.Mostly human for now
- 10Restore form and function by moving skin, bone, nerves, and other tissues from other parts of the body to reconstruct the jaws and face.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
4%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 4% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 30% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Administer general and local anesthetics.
- Remove impacted, damaged, and non-restorable teeth.
- Treat infections of the oral cavity, salivary glands, jaws, and neck.