Systems for the provision of oral health care in the black sea countries. Part 12: Ukraine.

This paper is part of a series describing systems for the provision of oral health care in countries that surround or are near to the Black Sea. It starts by outlining the country and its population structure. It then provides a description of the general and oral public and private health care systems in Ukraine. It describes the dental workforce (dentists, oral hygienists, dental specialists and dental technicians) and its education, setting out the numbers of dentists and other dental workers. A section on dental education at undergraduate, specialist, and continuing levels follows. Finally, the paper gives some information on the oral epidemiology and costs of oral care in Ukraine.