Provide patients with proposed treatment plans and cost estimates.

“Provide patients with proposed treatment plans and cost estimates.” is a core task performed by Orthodontists. Among the occupation's 10 rated tasks, workers place it 5th by importance (#6 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Explain medical information to patients or family members. in Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 100% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Diagnose teeth and jaw or other dental-facial abnormalities. · importance 4.9
• Examine patients to assess abnormalities of jaw development, tooth position, and other dental-facial structures. · importance 4.9
• Fit dental appliances in patients' mouths to alter the position and relationship of teeth and jaws or to realign teeth. · importance 4.9
• Study diagnostic records, such as medical or dental histories, plaster models of the teeth, photos of a patient's face and teeth, and X-rays, to develop patient treatment plans. · importance 4.9
• Adjust dental appliances to produce and maintain normal function. · importance 4.9
• Prepare diagnostic and treatment records. · importance 4.8
• Instruct dental officers and technical assistants in orthodontic procedures and techniques. · importance 4.8
• Coordinate orthodontic services with other dental and medical services. · importance 4.6
• Design and fabricate appliances, such as space maintainers, retainers, and labial and lingual arch wires. · importance 4.5

See all tasks on the Orthodontists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Provide patients with proposed treatment plans and cost estimates.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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}