Suicide in dentists

The incidence and gravity of suicide among dentists is still an object of controversy and an obscure one. At that we can question the difficulty of developing a statistical analysis for such a situation: Is it comparable to the incidence of suicide among other professionals and workers? Are the causes of suicide among dentists comparable to other causes of death? What are the major reasons of suicide among dentists? Suicide and the Law? These questions and others are reviewed in the following article, through various studies related to this subject. Language: fr