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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4406</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2022.14605</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Pursuing Public Health Dentistry as a Career: Motivations and Factors Influencing the Dental Students&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kandhro</surname><given-names>Rehmatullah</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Memon</surname><given-names>Khalida Naz</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Zaman</surname><given-names>Nimra</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Talpur</surname><given-names>Nida</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>15</day><month>03</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>33</fpage><lpage>37</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: A person__ampersandsignrsquo;s career is the process and actions he or she takes to achieve lifetime goals through his or her occupation. Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions one will ever make. Dentistry yields an extensive scope of career and employment chances as a general professional and specialist&#13;
Objectives: This study sought the career choices of public health dentistry by dental students and association between socio-demographic profiles of study population with reasons of choosing public health dentistry as a career.&#13;
Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted atInstitute of Dentistry, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro from 1st March 2021 to 31st May 2021.A sample of 197 undergraduate students were approached using convenience sampling. Data was collected through preformed, validated paper-based survey questionnaire. Association between various socio-demographic variables and career interests of participants was sought by Chi-square tests at 0.05 (2-tailed) level of significance.&#13;
Results: Around 69.54% of participants belonged to age group of 21-23 years with females accounting for 59.39%. Around 40% participants chose dentistry to please people. A large majority around 62.42% respondents stated that they find public health dentistry an interesting field. Age (p=0.08) and gender (p=0.06) of the individuals were not statistically connected with future career choice in dentistry.&#13;
Conclusion: Reasons for choosing public health dentistry as a career among the surveyed dental students are mostly related to socio-demographic factors.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Career</kwd><kwd> Public health</kwd><kwd> Public health dentistry</kwd><kwd> Profession</kwd><kwd> Dentistry</kwd><kwd> Public health specialist</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
