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Dental hygienists total: Thailand, 2024
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
Thailand: Source blocked for dental hygienists total as of 2024-12-31.
Comparability not rated Confidence low
Series break: this series has a documented break (2016). A change across it reflects a change in source or definition, not growth. See Series break below.
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World Health Organization. (2026). Dental hygienists total: Thailand, as of 2024-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/th/dental-hygienists-total/2024/
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Record
- Value
- Source blocked
- Unit
- persons
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- low
- Method
- reported
- Basis
- other
- Scope
- other
- Reason for no figure
- Source blocked (blocked_source): a source exists but could not be read
- Comparability
- Comparability not rated
- Status
- Current revision
Source quote
No verbatim quote recorded for this figure yet.
Locator: not recorded.
Source
World Health Organization: WHO Global Health Observatory OData API - health workforce (NHWA) for Thailand. Registry entry: th-who-gho.
Notes
No reliable current figure found. Checked: Dental Council stats page (dentists only); NSO Statistical Yearbook 2025 Table 5.9 (no dental-auxiliary line); WHO GHO HWF_0012 'Dental Assistants and Therapists (number)' last value 17,676 for 2018 (NHWA, Dec 2025 update) - mixes dental assistants with dental nurses/therapists (ทันตาภิบาล / นักวิชาการสาธารณสุข สาขาทันตสาธารณสุข) and jumps from 6,981 (2015) to 16,654 (2016), so recorded below as a separate C-grade record rather than here. Why: Thailand has no 'dental hygienist' licence; the equivalent cadre (dental nurses/dental public health officers) is counted in the MOPH health-resources report, whose host spd.moph.go.th disallows Claude/AI agents in robots.txt. Best lead: MOPH SPD Health Resources Report (รายงานทรัพยากรสาธารณสุข), row 'นักวิชาการสาธารณสุข (ทันตสาธารณสุข)/เจ้าพนักงานทันตสาธารณสุข'; Thai Community Public Health Council register.
Metric definition
Dental hygienists (headcount); some markets register oral health therapists instead (see notes) All markets for this metric.
Series break
Series break at 2016 (between 2015 and 2016): WHO NHWA series jumps from 6,981 (2015) to 16,654 (2016), probably because chairside dental assistants were added to the hygienist-equivalent count
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Source blocked why | other | Comparability not rated | WHO Global Health Observatory OData API - health workforce (NHWA) for Thailand | ||
| 2018-who | 17,676 persons | other | Comparability C | WHO Global Health Observatory OData API - health workforce (NHWA) for Thailand |
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