{"id":4796,"date":"2020-02-21T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2020-02-21T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:30:25","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-percentage-of-adults-aged-25-years-or-older-who-saw-a-dentist-in-the-past-year-by-education-level-and-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/02\/21\/4796\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults Aged 25 Years or Older Who Saw a Dentist in the Past Year by Education Level and Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6907a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6907a6-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, among adults aged 25 years or older, women (69.4%) were more likely than men (61.2%) to have seen a dentist in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of men and women who saw a dentist in the past year increased as education level increased. Among women, those with a Bachelor\u2019s degree or higher were the most likely to have seen a dentist in the past year (82.5%) and those with less than a high school education were least likely (51.4%).<\/p>\n<p>Among men, the same pattern prevailed (74.6% compared with 41.9%).<\/p>\n<p>Within each education group, the percentage of women who saw a dentist in the past year was higher than the percentage of men.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container d-flex flex-wrap body-wrapper bg-white\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col content content-fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"syndicate\">\n<div class=\"d-flex flex-wrap d-md-block\">\n<div class=\"order-4 w-100\">\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Health Interview Survey, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6907a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6907a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, among adults aged 25 years or older, women (69.4%) were more likely than men (61.2%) to have seen a dentist in the past year. The percentage of men and women who saw a dentist in the past year increased as education level increased. Among women, those with a Bachelor\u2019s degree or higher were<\/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\/4796"}],"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=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}