Dental providers in international perspective

This paper describes the dental provides in six study areas. The data were collected through interviews with samples of dentists who participated in the World Health Organization/US Public Health Service International Collaborative Study. Comparisons between dental providers in the different areas focus upon their personal characteristics, characteristics of their practices, their work patterns, the way they used their time, their professional activities and their satisfaction with dentistry. These descriptive data are related to consumer survey data obtained in another section of the International Collaborative Study.