Monitoring Edentulism in Older New Zealand Adults over Two Decades: A Review and Commentary

Figure 1

Decline in edentulism prevalence among New Zealand 65–74-year-olds, showing actual estimates from the 1976, 1988, and 2009 national oral health surveys, along with logistic line fitted in 1997 using the 1976 and 1988 estimates (2009 data point depicts 95% confidence interval).