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Number of Dentists and Oral Health Therapists

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Number of Dentists and Oral Health Therapists

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Dentists (Dental Specialist, General Dental Practitioners) and Oral Health Therapists by sector (Public, Private, Not in Active Practice).

"Dentists" include those from Division I and II under the Singapore Dental Council.

Registration of Oral Health Therapists started in 2008.

2 related datasets

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the metadata for this collection. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
collection_id = 513          
url = "https://api-production.data.gov.sg/v2/public/api/collections/{}/metadata".format(collection_id)
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())