Dental manpower is the subject of much discussion at local, state, and national levels. For the past few years I have been interested in this situation and want to present the information I have accumulated as well as offer some suggestions for the future. This paper will explain the present situation in pedodontics, summarize what the experts say about population projections, dental and pedodo...

The number o f patients in the Witwatersrand-Vaal area, requiring maxillofacial prosthodontic treatment has in­ creased rapidly in the past few years. In order to deter­ mine the future manpower needs a questionnaire was sent to 306 medical and dental specialists, and speech ther­ apists who practised in the Witwatersrand-Vaal area. The results o f this study showed that the projected increase ...

The dental profession is a noble profession. It takes years of devotion towards the subject of dentistry to get the graduate degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery. However, even after such painstaking efforts the current situation of dental graduates in India is grave. There are a lot of issues that are the main cause for this problem. The dental graduates are in a state of crisis due to lack of...

background national oral health policy was conscripted by the indian dental association (ida) in 1986 and was accepted as an integral part of national health policy (nhp) by the central council of health and family welfare in one of its conferences in the year 1995. objectives of this paper were to find out the efforts made or going on towards its execution, its current status and recent oral h...

A pedodontic manpower and productivity pilot project was conducted utilizing the pedodontic private practitioners of North Carolina. The responses demonstrated a traditional pedodontic practice in the services performed even though the mean age of the practitioners was fair]y young. Most practitioners had a single office located in a fluoridated area. Productivity results indicated that relativ...