Table 4.

Estimated DTs required in 6-,12- and 15-year-olds and extrapolated for whole SL population according to different scenarios of care delivery

¹Estimated population % of each age group of children within overall SL population (n = 7,092,113) informed by 2015 SL Census data

²Estimated dental therapists (DTs) calculated considering them working full time for 46 weeks in a year for overall SL population (n = 7,092,113)

³‘Conventional care’ scenario includes oral health promotion and prevention (shaded green), restoration (shaded orange) and extraction (shaded dark orange) as shown in Table 2

⁴‘Surgical and Prevention care’ scenario oral health promotion and prevention (shaded green) and extraction (shaded dark orange) only, as shown in Table 2

⁵Sub-type of ‘Surgical and Prevention’ scenario in which only teeth with decay code 6 will be managed with extraction along with oral health promotion and preventative strategy

⁶Sub-type of ‘Surgical and Prevention’ scenario in which teeth with decay codes 5 and 6 will be managed with extraction along with oral health promotion and preventative strategy

⁷‘Prevention care only’ scenario includes only oral health promotion and prevention (shaded green), as shown in Table 2, and no other treatment modality