Profile of dentists in oral health team of a microregion of Minas Gerais, Brazil

OBJECTIVE: To describe the profile of dentists in oral health team of the micro-region of Minas Gerais, Brazil. METHODS: Cross-sectional study with 48 dentists in 16 municipalities, in which data collection was conducted by questionnaire. The variables considered for the study were: training time in years, and monthly real salary (centroid), in compliance with weekly working hours, mode of incorporation into the oral health team, postgraduate course, social participation and ongoing involvement in Family Health. All variables were used to group dentists by Two Step Cluster analysis segmentation, with p