Table of contents

  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Symbols
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
    • Background: demographic and oral health trends
    • Qualifications
    • Sampling and data collection
    • Structure and themes
  • 2 Practice patterns, 2000
    • Social and demographic characteristics
    • Private and public practice
    • Current practice experience
    • Perceived busyness
    • Type of practice and mix of cases
    • Referral sources
    • Typical week
    • Public/private on-call
    • Surgeons' perceptions
    • Personnel requirement
    • Practice revenue and fees
  • 3 Services provided to patients, 2000
    • Patients' age and sex
    • Main areas of service provided
    • Subcategories of services provided
    • Types of services provided
    • Location of services provided
    • Referral sources
    • Main areas of procedure
    • Service-mix
  • 4 Comparisons: 1990 and 2000
    • Service provision
    • Practice patterns
  • 5 Summary
    • Practice patterns
    • Service provision
    • Trends
  • 6 References
  • Appendix: Example of questionnaire