Table 5.

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

Age groups	NDP2 delivering oral health promotion including individualised prevention	No. of DTs3 required across three scenarios of care
		Conventional Care (CC) Scenario4	Surgical and Prevention (SP) Care Scenario		Prevention (P) only Scenario6
			S6P Min. extraction: teeth with decay code 6 only5	S5&6P Max. extraction: teeth with decay codes 5 and 65
15-year-olds (2.46%)1	127	143	12	29	NR*
12-year-olds (2.39%)1	124	108	6	14	NR*
6-year-olds (3.13%)1	159	156	13	36	NR*
Estimation for whole SL population extrapolated from 15-year olds data	5163	5813	488	1,179	NR*
Estimation for whole SL population extrapolated from 12-year olds data	5188	4519	251	586	NR*
Estimation for whole SL population extrapolated from 6-year olds data	5080	4984	415	1,150	NR*
Average estimation for the whole SL population	5144	5105	385	972//	NR*

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

²Non-dental personnel (NDP) including Community Health Officers (CHOs), Community Health Workers (CHWs), Traditional healers or School teachers estimated working part time (1 day a week) for 46 weeks delivering oral health care

³Dental therapists working full time (37.5 h per week) for 46 weeks

⁴DTs delivering ART, tooth fillings and extractions

⁵DTs delivering extractions only

⁶DTs not required (NR)* as NDPs delivering all oral health promotion including individualised prevention