The field of Dental Hygienics is crucial to our health, but it is facing a serious problem in ensuring the safety and health of dentists while providing successful treatment to patients. Modern robotics and automation techniques have been developed and applied to other fields of surgery, but have not yet reached dentistry in any significant capacity. Such techniques could serve to greatly address both of the issues highlighted above. This is why I intend to determine how techniques similar to those already used in surgery could be used to automate some functions of Dental Hygienics, and thereby solve both of the highlighted issues. I will begin my senior project by performing a study of existing robotic devices in similar medical fields, through interviews with designers of said devices, and, if possible, a physical demonstration of their functions and methodologies. From this I hope to gain insight into the robotic medical device industry, and understand what the methods and challenges of the field are. This first stage should take a total of 4 weeks. For the next 6 weeks, I will perform surveys of dentists and patients looking for various insights, such as what aspects of their jobs dental hygienists most want automated, and how receptive patients would be to an automated device performing dental hygiene. I will also travel to dental offices to perform in-person interviews with the same goals of gathering insights. The end goal of my project will be to gather and process this data into a conclusive and quantitative answer to the question of how receptive the field of Dental Hygienics is to robotics-based automation.