Table 27
Active General Practice Dentists in Maine*
Treat/Accept/Limit MaineCare Clients by County of Employment
January 1, 2006

                                                                Accept New MaineCare          Limit the Percent of
                                  Treat MaineCare Clients?             Clients?                MaineCare Clients?
    County of           All      **************************    **************************    **************************
    Employment       Dentists*    Yes       No      Unknown     Yes       No      Unknown     Yes       No      Unknown
    *************    *********   *****     ****     *******    *****     ****     *******    *****     ****     *******

    Total*              464       206       237        21        80       354        30       131        67       266
        
    Androscoggin         35         7        27         1         2        31         2         4         3        28
    Aroostook            18        15         2         1         8         9         1         6         8         4
    Cumberland          128        39        88         1        12       111         5        31         6        91
    Franklin              8         5         2         1         3         5         0         2         3         3
    Hancock              20        14         6         0         8        12         0         7         7         6
    Kennebec             50        28        18         4         6        37         7        16        11        23
    Knox                 23        11        10         2         2        19         2        10         1        12
    Lincoln              12         4         7         1         1        10         1         2         3         7
    Oxford               14         7         7         0         3        11         0         7         0         7
    Penobscot            54        26        24         4        13        35         6        14        10        30
    Piscataquis           7         5         2         0         3         4         0         4         1         2
    Sagadahoc            14         6         7         1         5         8         1         1         5         8
    Somerset             12         3         9         0         0        12         0         1         1        10
    Waldo                 9         6         1         2         2         6         1         6         0         3
    Washington           10         8         2         0         6         4         0         3         5         2
    York                 50        22        25         3         6        40         4        17         3        30

    *Licensed, active professionals working in Maine who responded to the survey and who
     indicated General Practice as their primary specialty.

    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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