Research Article
Analysis of Trends in Demographic Distribution of Dental Workforce in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Table 5
The distribution of dentists by gender.
| | Specialty | Female | Male | value | | N (%) | N (%) |
| | Advanced general dentistry | 70 (30.30) | 161 (69.70) | 0.0001 | | Conservative dentistry | 93 (37.05) | 158 (62.95) | | Dental implant | 3 (9.68) | 28 (90.32) | | Dental public health | 63 (58.33) | 45 (41.67) | | Endodontics | 330 (35.29) | 605 (64.71) | | Family dentistry | 46 (29.30) | 111 (70.70) | | General dentistry | 9776 (48.29) | 10467 (51.71) | | Oral and maxillofacial radiology | 22 (48.89) | 23 (51.11) | | Oral medicine | 38 (56.72) | 29 (43.28) | | Oral pathology | 37 (52.86) | 33 (47.14) | | Oral surgery | 60 (22.64) | 205 (77.36) | | Orthodontics | 233 (38.96) | 365 (61.04) | | Paediatric dentistry | 449 (56.13) | 351 (43.88) | | Periodontics | 222 (36.75) | 382 (63.25) | | Restorative dentistry | 348 (45.61) | 415 (54.39) | | Saudi board of oral and maxillofacial surgery | 117 (14.61) | 684 (85.39) | | Saudi board of prosthodontics | 363 (29.95) | 849 (70.05) | | Total | 12270 | 14911 |
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N: total number; %: percentage; significant difference (<0.05) in the chi-square test. |
