Clinical Oral Health Recommended Care and Oral Health Self-Report, NHANES, 2013-2014

Table 3

Weighted % of concordance between clinical oral health recommended care and self-reported oral health measures adults aged 30 years or older in National Health and Examination Nutrition Survey, 2013-14.

	Overall Oral health self-perception	Oral Pain^1	Impact on Job or school	Suspected Periodontal Disease	Tooth Appearance “does not look right”	Tooth mobility^3
ALL	65.4	52.0	52.6	55.6	57.8	55.7
Sex
Female	69.2	57.1	57.8	59.8	62.4	60.4
Male	61.4	46.5	47.0	51.2	52.9	50.8
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White	68.0	57.0	56.9	60.4	61.5	60.4
Non-Hispanic Black	57.5	40.0	42.1	45.0	49.5	45.8
Hispanic	61.9	39.3	42.3	43.4	50.8	43.9
Other	58.6	44.2	45.3	48.0	48.1	46.7
Age groups
30 - 44 years	67.4	54.4	55.8	56.0	60.7	57.0
45 - 54 Years	68.7	51.8	52.0	56.4	59.8	57.2
55 - 64 Years	64.4	47.6	48.5	55.1	53.2	52.2
65, or older	65.5	55.9	54.9	57.0	59.4	61.1
Education
Less than high school	67.2	41.2	42.2	46.2	52.1	44.0
High school graduate	61.1	41.6	43.3	50.6	51.2	50.7
Some College	64.7	50.3	51.4	54.3	55.8	53.6
College	68.2	65.1	64.3	64.3	66.7	66.2
Federal Poverty Level
0 - < 1.25	63.3	38.4	39.4	45.4	52.4	44.4
1.25 to < 2.00	62.6	44.1	44.5	50.7	53.6	48.7
2.00 - < 4.00	62.9	48.1	50.7	52.7	54.0	54.3
4.00 and above	69.1	64.6	63.6	65.3	65.5	65.3
Missing	67.2	52.5	52.4	52.9	55.1	54.4
Insurance coverage
Yes	66.4	55.7	55.9	58.8	60.4	59.2
No	59.7	35.5	34.0	37.9	43.6	36.7
Obesity
No	66.7	55.4	55.7	57.0	60.0	58.3
Yes	63.5	47.2	48.2	53.5	54.8	52.0
Alcohol use
Non-Drinker	64.2	51.9	54.6	55.9	57.2	54.5
Moderate use	68.3	58.7	59.3	61.6	63.2	62.1
Heavy use	62.1	42.8	41.8	46.4	50.2	48.5
Missing	63.7	46.0	46.1	51.3	54.4	49.9
Smoking
Current	66.1	40.0	40.3	42.1	49.7	43.2
Former	63.1	51.9	51.3	57.1	57.3	56.0
Never	66.4	56.1	57.3	59.5	60.8	59.8
Physical activity
Yes	65.8	52.7	53.3	56.6	58.8	56.6
No	64.3	50.1	50.6	53.0	55.2	53.2
Cancer
Yes	68.3	56.3	58.1	58.8	59.6	60.3
No	65.0	51.3	51.7	55.1	57.6	55.0
Cardiovascular disease
Yes	65.4	52.5	53.8	59.2	59.6	53.3
No	65.5	52.0	52.5	55.2	57.7	56.0
Diabetes
Yes	60.4	43.4	42.7	52.2	51.0	48.6
No	66.4	33.6	54.4	56.3	59.1	57.1
General health
Excellent/very good	65.9	59.6	59.1	59.3	61.7	62.8
Good	63.1	48.6	50.0	54.1	54.6	52.5
Fair/poor	69.1	44.3	44.7	52.1	56.6	48.7
Missing	65.5	49.5	53.1	53.0	57.6	53.8
Dental visit
1 year or less	65.7	59.3	59.7	60.2	61.2	62.6
More than 1 year	64.9	39.1	39.9	47.6	51.8	43.6

Note: based on 4,205 participants, who were 30 years and older and who had no missing data for the dentists’ oral health recommendations and responses from questions about oral health self-perception and oral pain. Asterisks represent significant group differences in concordance versus discordance based on Rao-Scott Chi-square tests. ¹Aching anywhere in the mouth during the last year. ²If participant thought he or she “might have gum disease” (NHANES, 2017). ³Participant was asked if “any teeth [were] becoming loose without an injury” (NHANES, 2017). p < .001; .001 ≤ p < .01; .01 ≤ p < .05.