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47KX Pediatric Dentist

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Overview

A Pediatric Dentist provides preventive dental care to Airmen's children across all age groups. These dentists serve at bases around the world where they are needed and help establish the foundation for children's lifelong dental needs.

Core Skills

  • Treatment of childhood oral injuries and dysfunction
  • Direction of pediatric dentistry services

Civilian Career Paths

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Pediatric Dentist

Military experience examining, diagnosing, and treating children's oral conditions and directing pediatric dentistry services transfers directly to civilian pediatric dentistry.

How to prepare: Request a target-state licensure and specialty-practice review and an employer credentialing assessment of your dental education and specialty training. State licensure is required, usually with an accredited DDS or DMD and written and clinical exams; specialty practice requires postdoctoral training, generally an accredited residency.

What the civilian work involves
  • Provide dentistry for children and special-needs patients.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: PEDIATRIC DENTIST (47KX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "PEDIATRIC DENTIST"; normalized cached text lines 9375-9395; family-level section (47K4, 47K3, 47K1)

    Supports: Treatment of childhood oral injuries and dysfunction, Direction of pediatric dentistry services, Pediatric Dentist

  2. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Dentists and dental specialties

    [2] What They Do, specialty descriptions; How to Become One, Training and Licensure; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Pediatric Dentist

Defense contractor jobs for 47KX

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