Estimating the Number of Dentists Needed in 2040
| Autor: | Stephen A Eklund, Howard L. Bailit |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Population Dentists Oral Health Oral health Dental education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Market forces medicine Production (economics) Humans Per patient per year 030212 general & internal medicine education Education Dental education.field_of_study 030206 dentistry General Medicine Investment (macroeconomics) United States stomatognathic diseases Incentive Family medicine Business Health Expenditures |
| Zdroj: | Journal of dental education. 81(8) |
| ISSN: | 1930-7837 |
| Popis: | Numerous factors that underlie the need for dentists are undergoing significant changes. Three factors are especially important: 1) improvements in oral health; 2) lower expenditures per patient per year, giving dentists the incentive to treat more patients to maintain incomes that justify their investment in dental education and practice; and 3) dental schools' producing new dentists at a faster rate than the growth in the population. If these trends continue, there is likely to be a dentist surplus of between 32% and 110% by 2040. A major challenge for dental schools is to adjust the production of dentists before 2040 and not wait for market forces to reduce the surplus. Whether there will be a painful market-based solution to the problem, as there was in the 1980s, or whether a more orderly path can be found is one of the key challenges of the project "Advancing Dental Education in the 21st Century," for which this article was written. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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