title: Would you believe that during the 1990s, applications to pediatric dental training programs more than doubled?
abstract: A review of application to (and enrollment in) pediatric dental programs indicates increasing dental student graduate interest (particularly by female graduates) in this specialty. Except for black student representation, enrollment in pediatric dentistry training programs increasingly represents the ethnic and racial distribution of the general population.
authors.affiliation: Dental Health Services, Department of General Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794-8706, USA.
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Waldman
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001213:Asian / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003815:Dentists / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003816:Dentists, Women / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004499:Education, Dental, Graduate / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012737:Sex Factors; D014481:United States; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data