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27 SEPTEMBER 2017

Dental care providers and treatment possibilities 2016

There were 533 dental care providers at the end of 2016 in Estonia, which is 14 more than the year before. One-tenth of the dental care providers offers beside dental care also other health care services. About 40% of all dental care providers are located in Tallinn and about one-tenth in Tartu.

Altogether, 7 dental care providers stopped working, and 15 started or resumed working in 2016. The number of clinics that are offering orthodontic treatment increased the most – 6%. The number of clinics that are offering dental surgery procedures increased also a bit (4,3%). Prosthetic services and clinics that have the possibility to make x-ray examinations continued to increase slightly. 97% of clinics offers only dental care, it means that 3% of dental care clinics are specialized solely in prosthetic treatment, orthodontic treatment or x-ray examinations.

Prosthetic services offered 68%, orthodontic 10%, endodontic 93%, parodontic 65%, dental surgery procedures 41% and x-ray examinations 79% of the dental clinics in 2016.

Data is available in database table TTO40.