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Dental-assistant programs in Missouri on the federal training list, by published cost

9 programs in Missouri’s Training Provider Results index carry one of the occupation codes for Dental assistant (31-9091). Published costs run from $795 to $16,786; 0 programs report no cost and sit at the end. Sorted by the cost each provider reported — “cheapest” here means the lowest published figure on the federal list on the snapshot date, not a verdict on quality, and never a price you are promised. Snapshot taken 2026-09-02.

Read this first. Your local job center decides eligibility — this shows what is on the list and what it cost and produced, not whether you will be approved. No promise is made here about money, seats, jobs or pay; the figures are what the providers reported, printed with their dates.
Programs on the list9
With a published cost9 of 9
With an employment figure1 of 9
Median published cost$3,200
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#Published cost
basis
Program (provider’s page) · credential · codeProvider · cityLengthExitedCompletedEmployed Q2 after exitMedian earnings, Q2 (one quarter)
1$795tuition + fees + suppliesDental Prosthetics PermitC0-CERTIFICATE < 1 YEAR · 31-9091Ozarks Technical Community CollegeSpringfield 658028 wk · 40 hrs47100%
2$850tuition + fees + suppliesDental AssistingC0-CERTIFICATE < 1 YEAR · 31-9091Cape Girardeau Career & Technology CenterCape Girardeau 6370314 wk · 6 hrs
3$1,175tuition + fees + suppliesDental Assistant: Restorative PermitC0-CERTIFICATE < 1 SEMESTER · 31-9091Ozarks Technical Community CollegeSpringfield 658026 wk · 24 hrs7299%
4$3,195tuition + fees + suppliesCE Ed2GO Clinical Dental AssistantDental Assisting National Board examinations - NELDA or CDA. · 31-9091Jefferson CollegeHillsboro 6305015 wk · 20 hrs
5$3,200tuition + fees + suppliesDental AssistingC0-CERTIFICATE < 1 YEAR · 31-9091Laurel Institute For Dental AssistantsSaint Peters 6337610 wk · 6 hrs
6$7,011tuition + fees + suppliesDental AssistingC0-CERTIFICATE < 1 YEAR-Dental Assistant · 31-9091Franklin Technology Center Adult EducationJoplin 6480125 wk · 32 hrs
7$12,712tuition + fees + suppliesDental Assisting CertificateC1-CERTIFICATE 1 YEAR BUT < 2 YEAR · 31-9091Ozarks Technical Community CollegeSpringfield 6580232 wk · 15 hrs
8$15,889tuition + fees + suppliesDental Assisting TechnologyC1-CERTIFICATE 1 YEAR BUT < 2 YEAR · 25-1071; 31-9091State Technical College Of MissouriLinn 6505148 wk · 40 hrs
9$16,786tuition + fees + suppliesDental Assisting AASAAS-2 YEAR DEGREE · 25-1071; 31-9091Ozarks Technical Community CollegeSpringfield 6580264 wk · 15 hrs2979%10%$8,322

Source and date: U.S. Department of Labor, Training Provider Results — the open program index behind trainingproviderresults.gov, snapshot taken 2026-09-02 (2,908 programs for Missouri in the index that day); the site states the data cover programs approved as of June 30, 2025 and outcomes for July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2025. Cost is Out-of-Pocket Cost for a Non-WIOA Participant: Tuition and Requested Fees (DE111) where the provider reported it, otherwise Average number of dollars the training program received from each WIOA participant Individual Training Account (ITA) during the time period (DE138/DE135) — the basis is printed under each figure; books and supplies are added only when reported separately. “Completed” = Percent of All Students who completed the program (DE122/DE121); “Employed Q2” = Percent of All Students Exiters who were employed in the 2nd Quarter after Exit (DE123/DE129); “Median earnings” = Median Earnings in the 2nd Quarter after Exit of All Students that are Employed in the 2nd Quarter after Exit (DE125) — one calendar quarter, not a year. A dash means the federal file prints −1: Values displayed as "-1" indicate data that have been suppressed to protect confidentiality. Your local job center decides eligibility — this shows what is on the list and what it cost and produced, not whether you will be approved.

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This page sorts dental-assistant programs in Missouri by the cost their providers published. The Retraining ROI report takes one target occupation and one state, ranks every listed program by the employment its completers reported, and — if you give your current pay — prints a payback estimate per program with its basis. Built on order from the same federal record; free sample on that page.

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