Public dental sector workforce scheme Number of dentists that Australia through this stream instead of through ADC based on an eligibility listing in each jurisdiction. Inflows – Workforce demand data sources and data items Data Source Data items Limitation Australian Bureau of Statistics Population projections 2006 – 2025: 5 year age cohorts Gender – Australian Bureau of Statistics Patient Health Survey 2011-12: Visit to dental professionals Sought a dental professional by age/gender (15 and over) Use of dental services for own health in the last 12 months (15 and over) Based on overall population rather than dentate population only Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health Longitudinal Survey of Dentists’ Practice Activity Supply of visits Hours and services It is a logbook of dentists’ practice activity Australian Dental Association 2006 – 2012 services items numbers Costs Services – Australian Dental Association Practice survey data: Question 8: working hours Question 9: patient appointments Question 10: practice ‘busyness’ Question 12: dental practice Question 2.1: details of private practice Unit record data is currently being requested This will give an indication of private practice activity. This data is intended to be utilized as an implied private practice at a national level. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Hospital morbidity data (dental care is one of the most common reasons for hospital admission for children the age of 10 years). –
Medicare Chronic Disease Dental Scheme (CDDS) and teen dental Medicare data 2007 – 2012: Services by category and item numbers Benefits paid by Medicare Category 4 – oral and maxillofacial services Medicare services for dentists, dental prosthetists, dentistry-oral surgery/ other dental specialist, dentistry-registered and orthodontistry Medicare data focuses primarily on the public sector, and records the number of services and the benefits paid by Medicare (with an limit that is paid). The types of treatment services provided are similar to those that are identified in table 4. The benefits paid per service grew at 1.44 per cent between 2007 and 2011. Department of Veteran’s Affairs 2006 – 2012 services by Medicare category and service item numbers – Public Dental Directors/ Jurisdictions Public sector utilization patterns and typical service usage. Child dental health data – National Dental Telephone Interview Survey (ARCPOH) Total population, 65+ population, geographical distribution by remoteness area, index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage, gender and age cohorts for: Exams X-rays Scale and cleans Extractions Fillings Crowns Bridges Gum treatments Orthodontic services. Self-report survey with a relatively small sample size (~7,000) collected every three years. NDTIS captures data on dental visiting by asking respondents about the number of visits made in the previous 12 months. Data on services received at those visits were collected by asking respondents to recall the number of exams, x-rays, scale and cleans, extractions, fillings, crowns, bridges, gum treatments and orthodontic services received in the last 12 months. The NDTIS services received questions were primarily designed to gain an understanding of the orientation of dental care within the community. While these service types represent the large majority of services received, the data does not necessarily reflect all dental services received. As such there is a high likelihood that the total count of services is conservative, and that services per visit applied in the dental demand projection is likely to be highly conservative.