Table 1.

Dental workforce in Sierra Leone: 1963–2020

Era	Year	Dentists	Dental therapists (DTs)	Dental nurses/assistants/oral health promoters	Population(in million)	Dentist: Population ratio
Pre-civil war	1963	10	n/a	10	2.2	1: 220,000
	1984	18	n/a	n/a	3.4	1: 188,889
	1989	16	2	5	3.9	1: 243,750
Post-civil war	2017	14	6	6	7.1	1: 507,143
	2020	10	5	5	7.5	1: 750,000

See Refs. [14, 15, 44]

Thorpe S. Dental personnel registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Sierra Leone. 2018

n/a: not available