{"id":4494,"date":"2019-06-07T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2019-06-07T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:00:14","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-who-have-lost-all-of-their-natural-teeth-by-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-2000-and-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2019\/06\/07\/4494\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 18 Years or Older Who Have Lost All of Their Natural Teeth, by Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, 2000 and 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6822a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/figures\/mm6822a5-F.gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The percentage of adults aged 18 years or older who had lost all of their upper and lower natural teeth decreased from 9.3% in 2000 to 7.0% in 2017, and this pattern was consistent in each age group shown.<\/p>\n<p>Complete tooth loss declined from 2.9% to 2.3% among adults aged 18\u201344 years, from 10.1% to 6.5% among adults aged 45\u201364 years, from 25.6% to 14.2% among adults aged 65\u201374 years, and from 34% to 24.9% among adults aged 75 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2000.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/series\/sr_10\/sr10_215.pdf\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/series\/sr_10\/sr10_215.pdf<span class=\"sr-only\">pdf icon<\/span><\/a>. Tables of Summary Health Statistics, 2017.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.cdc.gov\/pub\/Health_Statistics\/NCHS\/NHIS\/SHS\/2017_SHS_Table_A-6.pdf\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ftp.cdc.gov\/pub\/Health_Statistics\/NCHS\/NHIS\/SHS\/2017_SHS_Table_A-6.pdf<span class=\"sr-only\">pdf icon<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6822a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6822a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of adults aged 18 years or older who had lost all of their upper and lower natural teeth decreased from 9.3% in 2000 to 7.0% in 2017, and this pattern was consistent in each age group shown. Complete tooth loss declined from 2.9% to 2.3% among adults aged 18\u201344 years, from 10.1% to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62269,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494"}],"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=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}