NOC 2021 · 32111 · TEER 2
Dental hygienists and dental therapists
Unit group 32111 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Dental hygienists provide dental hygiene treatment and services related to oral health promotion and disease and mouth injury prevention. They are employed in a variety of settings including dentists' offices, hospitals, private clinics, educational institutions, public health agencies or they may be self-employed. Dental therapists provide limited restorative dental treatment in addition to dental hygiene services. They are employed by the federal government and the provincial governments to provide services in rural and remote communities.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- community dental hygienist
- dental hygiene technician
- dental hygienist
- dental hygienist technician
- dental nurse
- dental therapist
- expanded duty dental hygienist
- expanded duty dental nurse
- licensed dental therapist
- orthodontic hygienist
- periodontal hygienist
- registered dental hygienist
- registered dental therapist
- restorative dental hygienist
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.