Research Article
Analysis of Trends in Demographic Distribution of Dental Workforce in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Table 3
The distribution of dentists in different sectors is based on specialties.
| | Specialty | Private | Public | value | | N (%) | N (%) |
| | Advanced general dentistry | 58 (25.11) | 166 (71.86) | 0.0001 | | Conservative dentistry | 129 (51.39) | 118 (47.01) | | Dental implant | 22 (70.97) | 9 (29.03) | | Dental public health | 36 (33.33) | 70 (64.81) | | Endodontics | 371 (39.68) | 530 (56.68) | | Family dentistry | 94 (59.87) | 42 (26.75) | | General dentistry | 13743 (67.89) | 5182 (25.60) | | Oral and maxillofacial radiology | 8 (17.78) | 36 (80.00) | | Oral medicine | 23 (34.33) | 39 (58.21) | | Oral pathology | 14 (20.00) | 49 (70.00) | | Oral surgery | 166 (62.64) | 96 (36.23) | | Orthodontics | 411 (68.73) | 162 (27.09) | | Paediatric dentistry | 325 (40.63) | 443 (55.38) | | Periodontics | 269 (44.54) | 312 (51.66) | | Restorative dentistry | 188 (24.64) | 536 (70.25) | | Saudi board of oral and maxillofacial surgery | 436 (54.43) | 346 (43.20) | | Saudi board of prosthodontics | 643 (53.05) | 532 (43.89) | | Total | 16936 | 8668 |
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N: total number; %: percentage; significant difference (<0.05) in the chi-square test. |
