Czech Republic facing severe shortage of dentists

The health authorities say that the Czech Republic is facing a severe shortage of dentists. Dentists are aging and in many parts of the country they have no one to hand over their practices to. In south Bohemia and Moravia it is already hard to find a dentist willing to accept new patients and some people wait as long as six months for a check-up. The Czech Republic which has ten million inhabitants currently has seven thousand dentists, whose average age in 55. A hundred of them are aged between 70 and 99.