Research Article
Analysis of Trends in Demographic Distribution of Dental Workforce in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Table 8
The distribution of dental auxiliaries by the region of Saudi Arabia.
| | Specialty | Al Bahah | Al Jouf | 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 (%) |
| | Dental technician | 9 (0.39) | 42 (1.80) | 206 (8.81) | 114 (4.88) | 171 (7.32) | 316 (13.52) | 38 (1.63) | 45 (1.93) | 407 (17.42) | 49 (2.10) | 24 (1.03) | 851 (36.41) | 65 (2.78) | 0.0001 | | Dental hygienist | 53 (4.52) | 6 (0.51) | 30 (2.56) | 42 (3.58) | 48 (4.10) | 230 (19.62) | 3 (0.26) | 7 (0.60) | 152 (12.97) | 23 (1.96) | 7 (0.60) | 547 (46.67) | 24 (2.05) | | Dental assistant | 16 (0.34) | 18 (0.39) | 216 (4.63) | 122 (2.61) | 185 (3.96) | 983 (21.05) | 38 (0.81) | 112 (2.40) | 808 (17.31) | 68 (1.46) | 32 (0.69) | 1917 (41.06) | 154 (3.30) | | Total | 78 | 66 | 452 | 278 | 404 | 1529 | 79 | 164 | 1367 | 140 | 63 | 3315 | 243 |
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N: total number; %: percentage; significant difference (<0.05) in the chi-square test. |
