Design and fabricate appliances, such as space maintainers, retainers, and labial and lingual arch wires.

“Design and fabricate appliances, such as space maintainers, retainers, and labial and lingual arch wires.” is a core task performed by Orthodontists. Among the occupation's 10 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#10 most important). About 91% 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.

• Design materials or devices. in Thinking Creatively
• Fabricate medical devices. in Handling and Moving Objects

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

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 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

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
• Provide patients with proposed treatment plans and cost estimates. · importance 4.8
• 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

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
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-task-7741,
  title  = {Design and fabricate appliances, such as space maintainers, retainers, and labial and lingual arch wires.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-7741}
}