Research Article
Dentists’ Habits of Antibiotic Prescribing May be Influenced by Patient Requests for Prescriptions
Table 1
Respondents’ characteristics.
| | Characteristics | Count | Percentage |
| | Gender | | Female | 277 | 65.8% | | Male | 118 | 34.2% |
| | Highest degree/professional certification received | | Bachelor of Dental Surgery | 239 | 69.3% | | Advanced degrees and postgraduate training | 106 | 30.7% |
| | Practice area | | General dentistry | 239 | 69.3% | | Oral and maxillofacial surgery | 18 | 5.2% | | Periodontics | 17 | 4.9% | | Orthodontics | 9 | 2.6% | | Pediatric dentistry | 16 | 4.6% | | Prosthodontics | 8 | 2.3% | | Conservative/operative dentistry | 9 | 2.6% | | Endodontic | 23 | 6.7% | | Oral medicine | 6 | 1.7% |
| | Years practicing dentistry | | Less than 5 years | 235 | 68.1% | | 5–10 years | 32 | 9.3% | | 11–15 years | 24 | 7% | | More than 15 years | 54 | 15.7% |
| | Employment | | A full-time dentist in his/her private clinic | 157 | 45.5% | | An academic at a university where they teach and see patients | 17 | 4.9% | | A full-time dentist at a military’s royal medical service hospital | 26 | 7.5% | | A full-time dentist at the ministry of health hospital | 26 | 7.5% | | A full-time dentist at the ministry of health centre | 25 | 7.2% | | A part-time dentist | 94 | 27.2% |
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