Rebuilding the ruins: dental services and manpower in Cambodia.
Between 1975 and 1979 Cambodia suffered a massive destruction of its social structures under the Khmer Rouge. The dental profession was almost annihilated and the dental school in Phnom Penh stripped bare. Dental training has now begun again and the long process of restoration is in progress. The ratio of dentists to the population is still pitifully low and public services are concentrated in Phnom Penh and in provincial towns. Traditional dentists provide the only accessible dental care in many places. A primary oral health care system has yet to be developed.
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