Dental Therapist (ANZSCO 411214)

On the Regional Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Dental Therapist on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Dental Therapist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS classifies Dental Therapist as a Group A occupation, at the same bar as Dental Hygienist: a qualification comparable to an AQF Bachelor degree or higher in a highly relevant field. Dental Therapist sits on ROL plus CSOL, reaching five visas, notably without 189 or 190 — identical list position to Dental Hygienist. The two codes' VETASSESS pages sit at the same qualification tier and reach the same visas, which makes this one of the family's genuine confusable-code pairs: nothing on the page reviewed for Dental Therapist spells out how its scope differs from Dental Hygienist's in day-to-day task terms.

Where these applications come unstuck

Because VETASSESS's own pages for Dental Hygienist and Dental Therapist do not distinguish them by task, the nomination has to rest on the applicant's own documented scope of practice rather than on anything the assessment pathway states occupation by occupation. Dental Therapist training typically extends into broader restorative work than the preventive-care focus of dental hygiene, but this dossier could not confirm that distinction from VETASSESS's own wording on the page it reached for this code — it is the applicant's actual employment evidence, not the job title used overseas, that should decide which of the two is nominated.

An honest read on this pathway

Dental Therapist's list position — ROL plus CSOL, five visas, no 189 or 190 — matches Dental Hygienist's exactly, so there is no visa-access reason to prefer one code over the other; the choice has to follow the evidence. Dental Hygienist's own page names Pathway 2 as keyed to "an overseas qualification recognised by the Dental Board of Australia," and the Dental Board is understood to be the relevant registration body for Dental Therapist too, though this dossier could not re-fetch the Board's own site in this research to confirm its current registered-scope wording directly. Confirm registration requirements with the Dental Board before assuming a VETASSESS outcome is sufficient to practise.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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