{"id":7006,"date":"2020-09-18T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2020-09-18T11:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:30:34","slug":"quickstats-prevalence-of-complete-tooth-loss-among-adults-aged-65-years-or-older-by-federal-poverty-level-national-health-and-nutrition-examination-survey-united-states-1999-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/09\/18\/7006\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Prevalence of Complete Tooth Loss Among Adults Aged 65 Years or Older by Federal Poverty Level \u2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, United States, 1999\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6937a8.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6937a8-F.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The age-adjusted prevalence of complete tooth loss among adults aged 65 years or older decreased from 29.3% during 1999\u20132000 to 12.6% during 2017\u20132018.<\/p>\n<p>For the same period, the prevalence decreased from 42.1% to 23.5% for adults living at less than 200% of the federal poverty level and from 17.7% to 8.5% for adults living at more than 200% of the federal poverty level.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the period, the prevalence of complete tooth loss was higher among those living at less than 200% of the federal poverty level.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sources<\/b>: Fleming E, Afful J, Griffin SO. Prevalence of tooth loss among older adults: United States, 2015\u20132018. NCHS data brief, no. 368.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db368.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db368.htm<\/a>. National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2015\u20132018.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6937a8.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6937a8.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age-adjusted prevalence of complete tooth loss among adults aged 65 years or older decreased from 29.3% during 1999\u20132000 to 12.6% during 2017\u20132018. For the same period, the prevalence decreased from 42.1% to 23.5% for adults living at less than 200% of the federal poverty level and from 17.7% to 8.5% for adults living at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62269,14337,50899,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006"}],"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=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}