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Evolving
Last Update: 11/21/2025
Your role’s AI Resilience Score is
68.5%
Median Score
Changing Fast
Evolving
Stable
What does this resilience result mean?
These roles are shifting as AI becomes part of everyday workflows. Expect new responsibilities and new opportunities.
AI Resilience Report for
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
They perform surgeries on the face, mouth, and jaw to fix injuries, remove tumors, or improve appearance and function.
Summary
The career of an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon is considered "Stable" because, while AI and robots can assist in certain tasks like analyzing X-rays or helping with implants, they can't replace the human skills needed for most surgery tasks. Surgeons still need to perform complex procedures, make critical decisions, and communicate with patients and other doctors, which require human judgment and empathy.
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The career of an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon is considered "Stable" because, while AI and robots can assist in certain tasks like analyzing X-rays or helping with implants, they can't replace the human skills needed for most surgery tasks. Surgeons still need to perform complex procedures, make critical decisions, and communicate with patients and other doctors, which require human judgment and empathy.
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AI Resilience
All scores are converted into percentiles showing where this career ranks among U.S. careers. For models that measure impact or risk, we flip the percentile (subtract it from 100) to derive resilience.
CareerVillage.org's AI Resilience Analysis
AI Task Resilience
Evolving66.7%
66.7%
Microsoft's Working with AI
AI Applicability
Stable96.5%
96.5%
Will Robots Take My Job
Automation Resilience
Stable97.2%
97.2%
Low Demand
Labor Market Outlook
We use BLS employment projections to complement the AI-focused assessments from other sources.
Learn about this scoreGrowth Rate (2024-34):
4.1%
Growth Percentile:
64.0%
Annual Openings:
0.2
Annual Openings Pct:
1.5%
Analysis of Current AI Resilience
Oral & Maxillofacial Surg
Updated Quarterly • Last Update: 11/11/2025
State of Automation & Augmentation
Some oral surgery tasks are already helped by AI or robots. For example, deep learning can spot things in X-rays that doctors may miss – even identifying jaw tumors in scans [1]. AI models have also been trained to recognize different kinds of mouth sores from photos, helping doctors diagnose faster [2].
This means AI can support dentists by reading images and suggesting if a wisdom tooth might cause trouble.
Robots are starting to assist in surgery too. A dental robot named Yomi guides dentists during implant surgery; by 2025 over 70,000 implants had been placed with its help [3]. A new robot from a company called Perceptive even performed a complete tooth procedure on a patient entirely by itself, using 3D scans and AI to plan the work [4].
These examples show AI and robots augmenting oral surgery. However, most tasks – like giving anesthesia or discussing treatment with other doctors – still require a human surgeon today.
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AI Adoption
AI tools in oral surgery exist but must overcome some hurdles before wide use. On one hand, devices like implant robots and AI imaging software can improve precision and speed [3]. On the other hand, these systems are very expensive and need rigorous testing.
One review notes that automated diagnosis tools still have “accuracy issues” and require more validation before doctors can trust them [1]. Also, surgeons are highly trained and well-paid, so clinics will adopt AI helpers only if they clearly improve outcomes enough to justify the cost. Finally, patients and doctors must feel confident in AI methods.
In short, advanced AI and robotic tools are available, but high cost, strict medical approval processes, and the need for proven accuracy and trust mean adoption in oral surgery is proceeding cautiously [1] [3].
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Career: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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Employment & Wage Data
Jobs (2024)
6,100
Growth (2024-34)
+4.1%
Annual Openings
200
Education
Doctoral or professional degree
Experience
None
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024-2034
Task-Level AI Resilience Scores
AI-generated estimates of task resilience over the next 3 years
1
Remove impacted, damaged, and non-restorable teeth.
2
Remove tumors and other abnormal growths of the oral and facial regions, using surgical instruments.
3
Treat infections of the oral cavity, salivary glands, jaws, and neck.
4
Provide emergency treatment of facial injuries including facial lacerations, intra-oral lacerations, and fractured facial bones.
5
Perform surgery on the mouth and jaws to treat conditions such as cleft lip and palate and jaw growth problems.
6
Restore form and function by moving skin, bone, nerves, and other tissues from other parts of the body to reconstruct the jaws and face.
7
Administer general and local anesthetics.
Tasks are ranked by their AI resilience, with the most resilient tasks shown first. Core tasks are essential functions of this occupation, while supplemental tasks provide additional context.
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