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In addition, there are 87 Dental Public Health Specialists in the MoH (Figure 10). Mapping of specialists
services were done to ensure appropriate distribution of existing specialists based on need and also
to identify future training requirements for all specialties. The establishment of 6 new dental specialist
services was undertaken for 18 dental facilities in 2017 (Table 4).
Figure 10
Dental Public Health Specialists in MoH (2012 to 2017)
150 122 119 121
97 93
100 87
50
0
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Source: Oral Health Programme MoH, 2017
Table 4
New Specialty Services Established in 2017
No Specialty Hospital / Dental Facility
1. Oral Surgery Hospital Segamat, Hospital Tanah Merah, IKN Putrajaya
2. Paediatric Dentistry Hospital Segamat, Hospital Kulim,
Oral Pathology & Oral
3. Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah, Hospital Seberang Jaya,
Medicine
4. Orthodontics KP Kulim, KP Kuala Berang, KP Kuala Lumpur
KP Kuala Krai, KP Teluk Intan, KP Miri, KP Sibu Jaya, KP
5. Restorative Dentistry
Batu Arang, KP Kuala Pilah, KP Kuala Lumpur
6. Periodontics KP Kuala Lumpur
Source: Oral Health Programme MoH, 2017
Service data are collected through the HIMS e-reporting system. The workload of dental specialists as
reflected by the ratio of specialist to patients (Table 5).
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