DENTAL CARE
While the majority (66.7 percent) of
women reported having visited a dentist in the last year,
12.0 percent reported
they had not visited a dentist in more than 5 years. Hispanic
women were the most likely (16.2 percent), as compared
to women of other racial and ethnic groups, to report that
they
had not received dental care for 5 years or more.
Income
was strongly associated with reported receipt of dental
care, with women's likelihood of having seen a dentist
in
the past year increasing with family income. Women in families
with incomes greater than or equal to three times the Federal
poverty level were much more likely than women with lower
family incomes to have seen or spoken with a dentist in
the past year. Women with family incomes below the poverty
level
were the least likely to have had dental care in the past
year (47.5 percent) and the most likely to have gone 5
years or more without any dental care (22.6 percent).
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