Table 5
Active 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              561          36.3        33.7        0.4         0.0           1.5            0.0       0.1        0.7 

  Androscoggin        43          34.6        33.0        0.1         0.0           1.4            0.0       0.0        0.1
  Aroostook           22          36.2        34.7        0.0         0.0           0.9            0.0       0.0        0.5
  Cumberland         184          36.5        34.0        0.3         0.0           1.4            0.0       0.1        0.6
  Franklin             9          40.0        39.0        0.0         0.1           0.6            0.0       0.3        0.0
  Hancock             21          39.3        36.7        0.4         0.1           0.8            0.0       0.2        1.0
  Kennebec            58          36.7        33.1        0.4         0.2           1.6            0.0       0.1        1.4
  Knox                25          33.1        30.1        0.3         0.0           2.6            0.0       0.1        0.0
  Lincoln             14          33.8        30.6        1.9         0.0           1.3            0.0       0.0        0.0
  Oxford              15          37.3        33.9        0.1         0.0           2.2            0.0       0.2        0.9
  Penobscot           65          36.8        34.0        0.8         0.0           1.9            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           15          36.0        35.4        0.0         0.0           0.6            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                55          35.0        32.4        0.7         0.0           1.5            0.0       0.1        0.2

*Licensed, active professionals working in Maine who responded to the survey, excluding 24 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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