Table 1.
Characteristics of participating dentists (No. = 114).
| Age | Mean (SD) | 36.2 (7.2) |
| Gender | Male | 57% |
| Female | 43% | |
| Nationality | Saudi | 19.3% |
| Non-Saudi | 80.7% | |
| Practice location in Riyadh | North | 29.8% |
| South | 7% | |
| Centre | 19.3% | |
| East | 36.8% | |
| West | 7% | |
| Clinical Experience (years) | Mean (SD) | 11.1 (6.8) |
| ≤10 y | 50% | |
| >10 y | 50% | |
| Qualification | DDS/BDS | 43% |
| Postgraduate Diploma | 15.8% | |
| MSc | 31.6% | |
| PhD | 4.4% | |
| Board Certificate | 5.3% | |
| Specialty | General Practice | 43% |
| Prosthodontics | 19.3% | |
| Operative Dentistry | 13.2% | |
| Endodontics | 5.3% | |
| Paediatric Dentistry | 0.9% | |
| Oral Surgery | 2.6% | |
| Periodontics | 4.4% | |
| Oral Medicine | 0.9% | |
| Orthodontics | 8.8% | |
| Other | 1.8% |