Community Health

When I was reading I found it interesting that in a survey done in 1990 of the demographics of dental hygienists. The study revealed that Germany ranked lowest with only 90 hygienists to serve a population of 81 million. The number of dentists is 55,000, which provides a ratio of one hygienist to 647 dentists or one hygienist to 952,941 potential patients. THe highest number of hygienists was in Japan withe 157,941 to 85,518 dentists, or a ratio of almost two hygienists for every dentist. WOW!! It would be interesting to see if there has been a recent study done on this to see if things have change since 1990.