Automation index
How much of a Dental assistant’s job can AI already do?
A booking and a reminder come earlier. Suction, passing and not leaving the patient alone do not.
This percentage does not predict how many people will lose their jobs.
Task comparison
IS WORK OVER?
Dental assistant
19%
AI can already do 19% of this job.
#489 / 643
View rankingDental assistant
Where the time goes
Task weights are our estimates based on O*NET frequency data, not time shares published by O*NET.
The time saving for each task is estimated separately.
| Task | Share | AI | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
Diary, charts and setting the bay.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 16% | 32% | +5.1 |
Suction, pass instruments and isolate.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 22% | 10% | +2.2 |
Care for the patient and explain aftercare.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 16% | 18% | +2.9 |
Develop, label and file tests.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 16% | 28% | +4.5 |
Sterilisation, impressions and stock.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 16% | 16% | +2.6 |
Not infecting anyone and not leaving cotton inside.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 14% | 14% | +2 |
| Total | 100% | 19% |
Modelled workweek: 100% · Public evidence: 0% · Estimate: 100% · Confidence: Low
Skills and activities
- design interfaces
- prototypes
- figma
- Diary, charts and setting the bay
- Suction, pass instruments and isolate
- Care for the patient and explain aftercare
- Develop, label and file tests
- Sterilisation, impressions and stock
- auxiliar de odontologia
- dental assistant
Sources for this job· O*NET 31-9091.00· ESCO/ISCO 5329
IS WORK OVER?
Physiotherapist
21%
#428 / 643
View rankingPhysiotherapist
Where the time goes
Task weights are our estimates based on O*NET frequency data, not time shares published by O*NET.
The time saving for each task is estimated separately.
| Task | Share | AI | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
Plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 12% | +1 |
Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 12% | +1 |
Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 12% | +1 |
Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 28% | +2.2 |
Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 7% | 22% | +1.5 |
Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 7% | 12% | +0.8 |
Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 6% | 12% | +0.7 |
Obtain patients' informed consent to proposed interventions.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 6% | 12% | +0.7 |
Other less frequent tasks (weight estimated from frequency).EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 42% | 28% | +11.8 |
| Total | 100% | 21% |
Modelled workweek: 100% · Public evidence: 0% · Estimate: 100% · Confidence: Low
Skills and activities
- orthopaedic manual physiotherapy
- medical terminology
- emergency surgery
- general medicine
- surgery
- human physiology
- geriatrics
- kinetics
- neurology
- pharmacology
Sources for this job· O*NET 29-1123.00· ESCO/ISCO 2264