DENTISTS WORK LOCATION IN RELATION TO THEIR ORIGIN

The aim of this study was to map dentist' work location and put it in relation to the place where they went to secondary school. All dentist s in Sweden who graduated from Swedish dental schools in 1983/84, 1984 /85 and 1985/86 were studied. For all these the place where they went to secondary school and the place where they work as dentists were reg istered. Sweden was divided into 14 areas: central, middle and remote with respect to urbanisation, location of dental schools etc. All dent ists were placed in one of the 14 areas according to their secondary s chool education and where they worked as active dentists. This clearly showed that dentists very often go back to the area where they have h ad their secondary school education.