Race/ethnicity and untreated dental caries: the impact of material and behavioral factors

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
Britt C ReidMark D Macek

Abstract

To use nationally representative data, group variables into categories of material and behavioral factors, and assess their relative contribution to racial/ethnic variation in untreated caries. Participants were from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), aged 20-50 years. Material factors were income, education, employment status, dental insurance status, and urban residence. Behavioral factors were marital status, tobacco use, alcohol use, obesity, and social support. All models were additionally adjusted for age, gender, and quartile of missing teeth. The outcome was three or more carious teeth. Non-Hispanic blacks and Mexican-Americans displayed excess risk of untreated caries compared with non-Hispanic whites when adjusted for age, sex, and missing teeth (adjusted odds ratios 1.73 and 1.69, respectively). The addition of behavioral factors to this model resulted in virtually no changes in the adjusted odds ratios for race/ethnicity and untreated caries. When material factors were added to the basic model the excess risk for untreated caries among non-Hispanic blacks was reduced by approximately 21% and that of Mexican-Americans was no longer statistically significant compared with non-Hisp...Continue Reading

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