what about Dijon and Côte-d’Or?
6.2 dentists per 10,000 inhab., And where do you live?
In Ain, 317 out of 393 municipalities do not have a dentist; 466 out of 494 in the Jura; 259 out of 323 in the Loire… In Côte-d’Or, the inhabitants of Moitron or Saint-Broing-les-Moines are 41 minute journey to the nearest practitioner ; more than half an hour for those of Bellecombe (Jura), Chastel (Haute-Loire), Lélex, Giron or Innimond (Ain). In Saône-et-Loire, no practitioner has settled in the community of municipalities of Mirebellois and Fontenois (12,000 inhabitants), nor in that of the Canton of Semur-en-Brionnais (5,000). The accessibility of a doctor, a fortiori a specialist, does not however depend only on his presence in the municipality, but also on the endowment of neighboring municipalities, or even of the population (growth, aging, etc.).
The number of dental surgeons in the last decade has kept pace with the increase in the population (on average still 6.2 practitioners per 10,000 inhabitants), but this is not the case with their distribution over the territory: the regional differences have remained the same. The density of dental surgeons is therefore higher overall in the southern half of France, where it exceeds 7 practitioners per 10,000 inhabitants (8.6 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur for example). In the northern half, they are concentrated in Île-de-France, Brittany and the east (Alsace and Lorraine). In contrast, in Normandy and Picardy, the density does not exceed 4.1 dental surgeons per 10,000 inhabitants, ie more than 30% lower than the national average.
Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes are at the national average. On the other hand the Burgundy is the fourth (former) region the least well organized in terms of density of dentists (standardized density, ie taking into account the needs for differentiated care according to age).