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FUTURE OFDENTISTRY have continued to decrease (ADA, 2001b). Overall, there has been a 0.91% decline in the ratios. Women Dentist ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY 15.6% of total dental graduates; their percentage increased to 39.2% in 1994. Since then, the percent distrib ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY on the workforce is that a larger percentage cur- rently practices part-time. As shown in Table 3.3 about 30% ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY rose at about 2.0% annually. Dentists' productivity actually declined by 0.13% annually because the over-abun ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY In 2020, the United States population is project- ed to be 332,145,221. Without factoring in pro- ductivity i ...

40 FUTURE OFDENTISTRY Clinical Dental Practice and Management Percentage Change in the U.S. Population, by State, 1993-1999 FIGU ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY 41 Clinical Dental Practice and Management Percentage Change in Productivity-Adjusted Dentist-to-Population R ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY to keep pace. Other states, such as Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin showed declines in ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY slowly through the 1990s but began declining in the 1997/98 academic year, from 5,958 in 1980 to 4,967 in 199 ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY strong. Dental restorations have a finite life span. Materials fail, caries recur, teeth fracture, dental res ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY regarding the clinical capabilities and limitations of new technologies will continue to expand. New technolo ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY regeneration of both hard and soft tissues, and through the maintenance of friendly oral microflora in the mo ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY personnel working with dentists. As mentioned in the previous section, the payoff in productivity would be su ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY ulations, orthodontics, periodontal services, endodon- tic services, and oral and maxillofacial surgery. The ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY The guiding vision for this discussion has been that in ten to fifteen years, every individual who needs oral ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY practices will augment epidemiological, clinical and laboratory research endeavors. Strategies to assure the ...

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52 FUTURE OFDENTISTRY Financing of and Access to Dental Services CHAPTER 4 Most Americans today receive the oral health care ser ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY Any discussion of access and financing in the den- tal sector must begin with an assessment of the oral healt ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY shown improvement in the amount of untreated caries in the primary dentition (Brown et al, 2000a). Overall, t ...