The Board of Dental Examiners divides type of practice into 10 categories. The interactive table below gives the distribution of Alabama dentists by practice type, overall and by the rural/urban classification. Dentists with no specialty listed in the BDE are classified simply as Dentist.
Field
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Rural
Urban
Distribution by Specialty
General Areas
The graph and table below give the distribution of Alabama dentists by two general categories: primary care and specialists. Primary care dentists are those with fields in dentistry, general densitry, or pediatric dentistry.
