Malaysia training more dentists

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is seeing an increase in dentists in the next five years, which will lower the dentist-patient ratio to 1:3,000 by 2018.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said the current ratio of 1:5,100 (one dentist per 5,100 citizens) would be improved to that if the nation continued to produce about 1,100 dentists each year.

“In terms of dentists across Malaysia, we are producing a lot of dentists.

“For a long time, we had produced about 600 to 700 dentists a year, but this year we are producing 1,100. 

“We will probably produce 1,100 or 1,200 dentists for the next four to five years,” he said in his speech at the opening of the International College of Dentists (ICD) Asia-Pacific Congress and Trade Exhibition 2016 at a hotel here yesterday.

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Source: The Star Online, 13 March 2016