Table 24
Active General Practice Dentists in Maine*
Average Hours Worked Per Week Within Activity by County of Employment
January 1, 2006

                                Average
                   Number      Hours/Week
  County of          of           All        Patient                                                      Community
  Employment      Dentists*    Activities     Care     Teaching    Research    Administration    Retail   Services     Other
  *************   *********    **********    ******    ********    ********    **************    ******   *********   ******* 

  Total              442          36.0        33.5        0.4         0.0           1.3            0.0       0.1        0.6 

  Androscoggin        34          34.4        32.8        0.0         0.0           1.6            0.0       0.0        0.0
  Aroostook           17          35.1        34.8        0.0         0.0           0.3            0.0       0.0        0.0
  Cumberland         127          35.8        34.0        0.2         0.0           1.2            0.0       0.1        0.3
  Franklin             8          35.0        33.9        0.0         0.1           0.6            0.0       0.4        0.0
  Hancock             20          39.6        36.9        0.5         0.2           0.9            0.0       0.2        1.1
  Kennebec            48          36.6        32.9        0.5         0.3           1.3            0.0       0.1        1.6
  Knox                20          32.4        30.5        0.4         0.0           1.4            0.0       0.2        0.0
  Lincoln             12          35.1        31.4        2.2         0.0           1.5            0.0       0.0        0.0
  Oxford              14          36.7        33.7        0.1         0.0           1.8            0.0       0.1        1.0
  Penobscot           49          36.4        33.8        1.0         0.0           1.5            0.0       0.1        0.0
  Piscataquis          6          29.8        28.0        0.0         0.0           1.5            0.2       0.2        0.0
  Sagadahoc           12          37.2        37.2        0.0         0.0           0.0            0.0       0.0        0.0
  Somerset            12          40.6        30.9        0.0         0.0           0.3            0.0       0.0        9.3
  Waldo                8          36.4        34.9        0.8         0.0           0.8            0.0       0.0        0.0
  Washington           9          44.8        43.2        0.0         0.0           0.7            0.0       0.0        0.9
  York                46          34.7        31.5        0.9         0.0           1.8            0.0       0.2        0.3

  *Licensed, active professionals working in Maine who responded to the survey and who indicated General Practice as their 
   primary specialty.  Excluding 22 dentists with unknown hours in one or more activities.

  Source of Data: Maine Cooperative Health Workforce Resource Inventory, ODRVS.

                                                                                Maine Department of Health and Human Services
                                                                               Office of Data, Research, and Vital Statistics

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