Judicious distribution of pedodontists to non-urban areas.
Current information on the number of pedodontists, supplemented with data on population trends, the use of dental services, evolving dental disease patterns and the expenditures for dental services , would seem to bear out the Task Force and Advanced Dental Education recommendation (particularly in the field of pedodontics) that, "the total number of first-year clinical dental specialty positions be decreased.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003729:Dental Care / Q000191:economics; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D003815:Dentists / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D005260:Female; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry; D012424:Rural Population; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce