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Table 5
Workload of Dental Specialist by Disciplines, 2013 to 2017

Specialist : No. of patients seen
No Specialty
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
1. Oral Surgery 1:3,645 1:3,843 1:3,823 1: 3,954 1:3,358
2. Orthodontics 1:3,850 1:3,689 1: 4,083 1: 4,055 1:3,554
3. Paediatric Dentistry 1:3,606 1:2,676 1:2,427 1 : 2,730 1:3,005
4. Periodontics 1:1,578 1:1,368 1:1,312 1 : 1,491 1:1,466
5. Oral Pathology & Oral
Medicine 1:828 1:848 1:744 1: 869 1:833
6. Restorative Dentistry 1:1,594 1:1,658 1:1,732 1 : 1,439 1:1,294
Source: Health Informatic System MoH, pre eliminary data 2017

COMMUNITY ORAL HEALTHCARE

WATER FLUORIDATION PROGRAMME

There were a total of 496 Water Treatment Plants (WTP) in Malaysia. All WTPs were fully privatized
except for those in Perak, Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan. Of 311 WTP (62.7 per cent) which was installed
with fluoride feeders, 253 (81.4 per cent) were active while 58 (18.6 per cent) were inactive due to lack
of resources to purchase fluoride compound or facing technical problems such as fluoride feeder that
require repair or replacement.

In 2017, an estimate of 76.5 per cent of population received fluoridated water. However fluoridation
coverage in Pahang has decreased from 3.4 per cent (2016) to 1.4 per cent (2017). Less than 50 per
cent of WTP in Sarawak, Labuan, Sabah, Kelantan and Pahang produce fluoridated water. Meanwhile,
85.7 per cent of readings taken at reticulation points conformed to the recommended range (Figure 11).

Figure 11
Conformance of Fluoride Level in Public Water Supplies to The Recommended
Range (0.4-0.6ppm), 2006 to 2017

Source: Oral Health Programme MoH, 2017.

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