Ministry of Health publishes annual CSV statistics on the number of dentists and oral health therapists in Singapore by sector. Dentist counts cover dental specialists and general practitioners registered with the Singapore Dental Council, split across public, private, and not-in-active-practice categories. Oral health therapist registration began in 2008, and a separate dataset tracks that workforce. Health workforce planners and researchers can monitor oral care capacity trends through the catalogued years.
Official description
Number of Dentists (Dental Specialist, General Dental Practitioners) and Oral Health Therapists by sector (Public, Private, Not in Active Practice).
"Dentists" include those from Division I and II under the Singapore Dental Council.
Registration of Oral Health Therapists started in 2008.
Data on the number of Oral Health Therapists in Singapore, classified by practice status or employment setting: public, private, and not in active practice. The series covers registrations from 2008 onward and provides a high-level view of the country’s oral healthcare workforce as tracked by the Ministry of Health. It can support research on Singapore dental workforce capacity, oral health service planning, healthcare manpower trends, professional registration, and comparisons between active public- and private-sector practitioners and those not currently in active practice. Useful search intents include Singapore oral health therapist numbers, MOH oral healthcare workforce statistics, oral health therapist registration data, public versus private oral health professionals, and Singapore healthcare manpower from 2008.
Ministry of Health CSV of the number of registered dentists in Singapore from 2008 through 2022, broken down by type—dental specialists and general dental practitioners—and sector across public, private, and those not in active practice. Columns include year, type, sector, and count, referring to Division I and II dentists. Health-workforce planners and researchers track dental manpower supply and its public–private split over time.