Increasing Unemployment among Indian Dental Graduates – High Time to Control Dental Manpower
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Mushrooming of dental colleges in past few years in India has led to unemployment among Indian dentists. In 1966, the first dental college in the private sector was established. Before that, all the dental colleges in India were government-aided. Since then there has been marked an increase in number of dental colleges. Currently, there are 310 dental colleges in the country out of which 292 are privately owned and only 40 are run by the government.1 As a result, thousands of dentists are coming out every year with very low prospectus of job. In 1970, there were only 8000 dental students graduated from Indian Dental Institutions, the figure was 30,570 in year 2010.2
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