{"id":3477,"date":"2017-03-13T09:48:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T13:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2017-03-13T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T13:48:23","slug":"quickstats-prevalence-of-untreated-dental-caries-in-primary-teeth-among-children-aged-2-8-years-by-age-group-and-racehispanic-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/03\/13\/3477\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Prevalence of Untreated Dental Caries in Primary Teeth Among Children Aged 2\u20138 Years, by Age Group and Race\/Hispanic Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6609a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/m6609qsf.gif\" width=\"430\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2011\u20132014, 13.7% of children aged 2\u20138 years had untreated dental caries in their primary teeth (baby teeth).<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of children with untreated dental caries in their primary teeth increased with age: 10.9% among children aged 2\u20135 years and 17.4% among children aged 6\u20138 years.<\/p>\n<p>A larger proportion of Hispanic (19.4%) and non-Hispanic black children (19.3%) had untreated dental caries in primary teeth compared with non-Hispanic white (9.5%) children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6609a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6609a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2011\u20132014, 13.7% of children aged 2\u20138 years had untreated dental caries in their primary teeth (baby teeth). The proportion of children with untreated dental caries in their primary teeth increased with age: 10.9% among children aged 2\u20135 years and 17.4% among children aged 6\u20138 years. A larger proportion of Hispanic (19.4%) and non-Hispanic black<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62271,50899,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}