1980-1990: what a difference ten years have made in the future of pediatric dental practice.
A review is provided of developments in pediatric dentistry during the 1980s. In the early part of this decade, a number of factors produced a verified oversupply of pedodontists together with a declining population younger than eighteen years of age. Decreases in dental caries became widespread. Now, a decade later the increase in total number of dentists is slowing and the ratio of dentists-to-population has begun to decline.
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Department of Dental Health, School of Dental Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794-8715.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D000078329:Workforce