Careers

Career Description

Providing high-end dental care to more than 300,000 Airmen around the world is a major priority of the Air Force. As an Air Force Dentist, your days will be patient-focused, meaning you won't have to worry about overhead, managing a business or wrangling with insurance companies. Your job will simply be to provide the best dental care possible.

Career Tasks

• Examine, diagnose and treat diseases, abnormalities, injuries and functional disorders of the oral cavity
• Evaluate findings; develop treatment plans; and perform routine preventive, periodontal, oral surgery, endodontic and prosthodontic treatment

Becoming a Direct Commission Officer

To ease your transition into the Air Force, you'll enter a five-week training regimen designed to educate you on the ways of both the military and military healthcare. You'll participate in physical conditioning five days a week, leadership training and classroom studies.