Table 2.
Characteristics of dentists identified within the dental health care workforce in dental medical units in Shanghai in 2007 (n = 3,218)
| Dental medical resources | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public, n (%) | Non-public, n (%) | Total, n (%) | ||
| Professional level | ||||
| Senior professional | 291 (14.2) | 119 (10.2) | 410 (12.7) | 0.170 |
| Intermediate professional | 724 (35.4) | 526 (44.9) | 1,250 (38.8) | |
| Junior professional | 1,031 (50.4) | 527 (45.0) | 1,558 (48.4) | |
| Age group | ||||
| < 30 years | 472 (23.1) | 307 (26.2) | 779 (24.2) | < 0.001 |
| 30–50 years | 1,107 (54.1) | 712 (60.8) | 1,819 (56.5) | |
| ≥ 50 years | 467 (22.8) | 153 (13.1) | 620 (19.3) | |
| Education | ||||
| Doctor’s degree or above | 99 (4.8) | 28 (2.4) | 127 (4.0) | 0.031 |
| Master’s degree | 286 (14.0) | 98 (8.4) | 384 (11.9) | |
| Bachelor’s degree | 864 (42.2) | 601 (51.3) | 1,465 (45.5) | |
| Others | 797 (39.0) | 445 (38.0) | 1,242 (38.6) | |
| Specialty | ||||
| Oral medicine | 176 (8.6) | 21 (1.8) | 197 (6.1) | < 0.001 |
| Prosthodontics | 202 (9.9) | 43 (3.7) | 245 (7.6) | |
| Dental surgery | 74 (3.6) | 13 (1.1) | 87 (2.7) | |
| Orthodontics | 108 (5.3) | 34 (2.9) | 142 (4.4) | |
| Preventive dentistry | 52 (2.5) | 0 | 52 (1.6) | |
| Paediatric dentistry | 21 (1.0) | 1 (0.1) | 22 (0.7) | |
| Oral implantology | 21 (1.0) | 10 (0.9) | 31 (1.0) | |
| General dentistry | 1,392 (68.0) | 1,050 (89.6) | 2,442 (75.9) | |