Quick facts and figures
- Approx 1.7 million Victorians were health care or concession card holders or dependents of card holders.
- 334,993 people were treated through Victoria’s public dental services – 9,136 more than the previous year.
- Of these:
- 215,819 were adults
- 119,804 were children
- 140,539 were Emergency patients
- Across the state of Victoria there were:
- 87 public dental clinics at 58 community agencies
- 368 public dental chairs
- 15 DHSV-leased relocatable public dental clinics and dental vans
- 367 out of 1,698 kindergartens running the DHSV Smiles4Miles health promotion program [Please note this is 2008-09 data. 2009-10 figures available in October 2010]
- At The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne there were:
- 139 dental chairs
- 51,710 patients treated
- 27,679 fillings placed
- 2,742 dentures made
- 1,282 teeth given root canal treatment
This information is based on 2009-10 data.