Dental visits time interval since last visit, United States - july 1963-june 1964

Data collected during the period July 1963 and June 1964 indicate that an estimated 78.1 million persons, or 42.0 percent of the civilian, noninstitutional population, made one or more dental visits within the year prior to interview. Approximately 16.6 percent of the population had never seen a dentist. These data are derived from household interviews conducted in a nation-wide sample of the population for the Division of Health Interview Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics. The proportion of persons with recent dental visits varied markedly with age. Proportionally fewer persons at the extremes of the age range-under 5 years and 65 years and over-had seen a dentist in the past year than had persons in the other age groups. Persons aged 5-24 had the highest percentages. Population groups with the highest proportion of persons receiving dental care within a year were females 5-14 years (55.8 percent) and 15-24 years (58.3 percent). In all age groups a larger proportion of females than of males had visited a dentist within the yeur prior to interview. An estimated 44.6 percent of white persons and 22,7 percent of nonwhite persons made one or more dental visits in the year prior to interview. This large differential was reduced somewhat when white and nonwhite persons with similar incomes were compared.