Dental report shows good tooth decade

THE number of dentists in Australia's remote areas has risen by almost 50 per cent and more of them are women.

Statistics in the government's Dental Workforce 2011 report, released on Thursday, will have both the oft-neglected rural community and the government showing off their pearly whites.

The number of dentists employed in "remote/very remote" areas increased by 49 per cent between 2006 and 2011 - more than double the national average increase of 22.4 per cent, it states.

In fact the report, released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), is about as squeaky clean as a dentist's surgery itself - without the hospital grade detergent aroma.

Despite having the smallest growth at 19 per cent, major cities continued to have more dentists per capita than all other areas in 2011, with 64.1 full-time equivalent dentists per 100,000 people.

Women in the dental workforce are also up from 2006, representing just over one-third of employed dentists - an increase of about seven per cent to 35.6 per cent.

And depending how you look at it, employed dentists themselves - 30 per cent of whom worked part time - can also take something from the report.

Figures show on average they were working more than one hour less per week in 2011 (37.4 hours) than they were in 2006 (38.5 hours).

The AIHW is a national agency set up by the Australian government to provide regular and relevant information and statistics on Australia's health and welfare.

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