Dr. Catherine Gallagher:

The headline figure of the number of registrants may hide the fact that traditionally, such as when I graduated, registrants went into dentistry and worked full-time from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, and maybe Saturday as well, delivering dentistry. That is not necessarily the case for all registrants now. I know the IDA has done some work on looking at the workforce and the Department plans to do more. However, we need to look at what graduates are doing once they graduate and the number of hours of dentistry that are actually being delivered per week.