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Collection: Number of Dentists and Oral Health Therapists

Dataset: Number of Dentists

Health

Number of Dentists

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:41 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Dentists (Dental Specialist, General Dental Practitioners/Public, Private, Not in Active Practice). Dentists refer to Division I and II dentists.

Count by Year

Data explorer

NumberofDentists.csv (90 rows, 4.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Type Text	Sector Text	Count Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2008	Dental Specialists	Public Sector	47
2008	Dental Specialists	Private Sector	116
2008	Dental Specialists	Not in Active Practice	2
2008	General Dental Practitioners	Public Sector	268
2008	General Dental Practitioners	Private Sector	864
2008	General Dental Practitioners	Not in Active Practice	187
2009	Dental Specialists	Public Sector	74
2009	Dental Specialists	Private Sector	180
2009	Dental Specialists	Not in Active Practice	2
2009	General Dental Practitioners	Public Sector	246

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Type	type	Text	-	-
Sector	sector	Text	-	-
Count	count	Numeric	No. of Dentists	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. 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
          
dataset_id = "d_6c8cf7ce0c6830608637418fcd0979a7"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Health. (2016). Number of Dentists (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 5, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6c8cf7ce0c6830608637418fcd0979a7/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

10 Jul 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)