Table 2			
	Active Dentists in Maine*			
	Number, Percent, and Ratio to Population by County of Employment		
	January 1, 2006			
								
	Number	Percent 	2004	Percent	Population			
County of	of	of	Estimated	of 	per			
Employment	Dentists	Dentists	Population	Population	Dentist			
************	**********	*********	***********	***********	**********			
TOTAL	585	100.0	1,317,253	100.0	2,252			
								
Androscoggin	44	7.5	107,022	8.1	2,432			
Aroostook	23	3.9	73,390	5.6	3,191			
Cumberland	185	31.6	273,505	20.8	1,478			
Franklin	9	1.5	29,736	2.3	3,304			
Hancock	21	3.6	53,556	4.1	2,550			
Kennebec	60	10.3	120,645	9.2	2,011			
Knox	28	4.8	41,008	3.1	1,465			
Lincoln	14	2.4	35,236	2.7	2,517			
Oxford	15	2.6	56,614	4.3	3,774			
Penobscot	72	12.3	148,196	11.3	2,058			
Piscataquis	7	1.2	17,525	1.3	2,504			
Sagadahoc	17	2.9	36,927	2.8	2,172			
Somerset	12	2.1	51,584	3.9	4,299			
Waldo	9	1.5	38,392	2.9	4,266			
Washington	10	1.7	33,558	2.5	3,356			
York	59	10.1	200,359	15.2	3,396			
								
*Licensed, active professionals working in Maine who responded to the survey.		
								
Source of Data:  Maine Cooperative Health Workforce Resource Inventory, ODRVS, and 2004 Estimated Population, ODRVS 	
								
			Maine Department of Health and Human Services	
			Office of Data, Research, and Vital Statistics	
								
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