Research Article
Analysis of Trends in Demographic Distribution of Dental Workforce in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Table 7
The distribution of dentists by the region of Saudi Arabia.
| | Specialty | Al Bahah | Al Jawf | Al Madinah | Al Qassim | Asir | Eastern Province | Hail | Jizan | Makkah | Najran | Northern borders | Riyadh | Tabuk | value | | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) |
| | Advanced general dentistry | 2 (0.87) | 0 (0) | 2 (0.87) | 3 (1.30) | 14 (6.06) | 22 (9.52) | 1 (0.43) | 3 (1.30) | 18 (7.79) | 1 (0.43) | 0 (0) | 159 (68.83) | 2 (0.87) | 0.0001 | | Conservative dentistry | 1 (0.40) | 7 (2.79) | 14 (5.58) | 12 (4.78) | 14 (5.58) | 28 (11.16) | 0 (0) | 9 (3.59) | 64 (25.50) | 4 (1.59) | 2 (0.80) | 70 (27.89) | 6 (2.39) | | Dental implant | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (6.45) | 1 (3.23) | 1 (3.23) | 2 (6.45) | 3 (9.68) | 0 (0) | 9 (29.03) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 11 (35.48) | 1 (3.23) | | Dental public health | 1 (0.93) | 0 (0) | 10 (9.26) | 4 (3.70) | 3 (2.78) | 9 (8.33) | 2 (1.85) | 3 (2.78) | 19 (17.59) | 1 (0.93) | 2 (1.85) | 47 (43.52) | 0 (0) | | Endodontics | 7 (0.75) | 10 (1.07) | 40 (4.28) | 36 (3.85) | 40 (4.28) | 96 (10.27) | 16 (1.71) | 17 (1.82) | 229 (24.49) | 7 (0.75) | 6 (0.64) | 353 (37.75) | 12 (1.28) | | Family dentistry | 0 (0) | 2 (1.27) | 10 (6.37) | 5 (3.18) | 10 (6.37) | 19 (12.10) | 1 (0.64) | 0 (0) | 17 (10.83) | 1 (0.64) | 1 (0.64) | 57 (36.31) | 5 (3.18) | | General dentistry | 102 (0.50) | 251 (1.24) | 1018 (5.03) | 752 (3.71) | 1004 (4.96) | 2438 (12.04) | 386 (1.91) | 468 (2.31) | 4128 (20.39) | 281 (1.39) | 141 (0.70) | 6845 (33.81) | 333 (1.65) | | Oral and maxillofacial radiology | 0 (0) | 1 (2.22) | 2 (4.44) | 0 (0) | 2 (4.44) | 4 (8.89) | 0 (0) | 4 (8.89) | 12 (26.67) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 18 (40.00) | 0 (0) | | Oral medicine | 1 (1.49) | 1 (1.49) | 3 (4.48) | 3 (4.48) | 1 (1.49) | 7 (10.45) | 0 (0) | 3 (4.48) | 19 (28.36) | 1 (1.49) | 0 (0) | 17 (25.37) | 0 (0) | | Oral pathology | 3 (4.29) | 0 (0) | 4 (5.71) | 2 (2.86) | 1 (1.43) | 6 (8.57) | 0 (0) | 4 (5.71) | 17 (24.29) | 1 (1.43) | 0 (0) | 19 (27.14) | 1 (1.43) | | Oral surgery | 2 (0.75) | 6 (2.26) | 24 (9.06) | 15 (5.66) | 15 (5.66) | 46 (17.36) | 5 (1.89) | 6 (2.26) | 69 (26.04) | 3 (1.13) | 6 (2.26) | 49 (18.49) | 6 (2.26) | | Orthodontics | 3 (0.50) | 5 (0.84) | 29 (4.85) | 29 (4.85) | 26 (4.35) | 65 (10.87) | 11 (1.84) | 19 (3.18) | 144 (24.08) | 13 (2.17) | 7 (1.17) | 162 (27.09) | 15 (2.51) | | Paediatric dentistry | 4 (0.50) | 7 (0.88) | 36 (4.50) | 34 (4.25) | 19 (2.38) | 94 (11.75) | 7 (0.88) | 12 (1.50) | 221 (27.63) | 10 (1.25) | 2 (0.25) | 282 (35.25) | 12 (1.50) | | Periodontics | 2 (0.33) | 6 (0.99) | 35 (5.79) | 27 (4.47) | 30 (4.97) | 74 (12.25) | 5 (0.83) | 15 (2.48) | 158 (26.16) | 6 (0.99) | 3 (0.50) | 203 (33.61) | 7 (1.16) | | Restorative dentistry | 2 (0.26) | 3 (0.39) | 32 (4.19) | 15 (1.97) | 41 (5.37) | 69 (9.04) | 9 (1.18) | 9 (1.18) | 184 (24.12) | 6 (0.79) | 1 (0.13) | 344 (45.09) | 5 (0.66) | | Saudi board of oral and maxillofacial surgery | 7 (0.87) | 16 (2.00) | 41 (5.12) | 49 (6.12) | 36 (4.49) | 113 (14.11) | 13 (1.62) | 25 (3.12) | 182 (22.72) | 18 (2.25) | 2 (0.25) | 233 (29.09) | 15 (1.87) | | Saudi board of prosthodontics | 6 (0.50) | 13 (1.07) | 76 (6.27) | 47 (3.88) | 60 (4.95) | 160 (13.20) | 15 (1.24) | 28 (2.31) | 291 (24.01) | 17 (1.40) | 6 (0.50) | 408 (33.66) | 16 (1.32) | | Total | 143 | 328 | 1378 | 1034 | 1317 | 3252 | 474 | 625 | 5781 | 370 | 179 | 9277 | 436 |
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N: total number; %: percentage, significant difference (<0.05) in the chi-square test. |
