Dental Care Utilization among Veterans by Smoking Status

Table 2

Veteran reports of dental care utilization within the previous 6 months by the National Survey of Veterans, 2010.

All	Not reported dental care utilization within 6 months		Reported dental care utilization within 6 months		P value
		wt.%		wt.%
Sex					0.8104
Male	2,414	43.8	3,435	56.0
Female	163	43.0	249	57.0
Race/ethnicity					<0.0001
White	2,277	41.5	3,442	58.5
Other	300	58.5	242	41.5
Age in years					<0.0001
50 and above	1,127	40.1	1,735	59.9
35 to less than 50	924	41.5	1,398	58.5
20 to less than 35	526	51.6	551	48.4
Marital status					<0.0001
Married	1,715	38.7	2,935	61.3
No	862	56.1	749	43.9
Education					<0.0001
Less than HS/HS degree	1,109	59.7	829	40.3
Some college	817	46.5	1,030	53.5
College degree/above	651	28.5	1,825	71.5
Income					<0.0001
Less than $20,000	542	73.6	227	26.4
$20,000 to less than $30,000	474	59.4	340	40.6
$30,000 and above	1,561	35.3	3,117	64.6
Insurance					<0.0001
Adequate	1,447	36.6	2,756	63.4
Inadequate	1,130	57.6	928	42.4
Health self-perception					<0.0001
Excellent/very good/good	1,619	39.2	2,880	60.8
Fair/poor	958	55.9	804	44.1
Smoking status					<0.0001
Current smoker	658	63.0	441	37.0
Past smoker	1,162	39.9	1,863	60.1
Never smoked	757	37.7	1,380	62.3
Oral health perception					<0.0001
Excellent/very good/good	1,099	33.1	2,576	66.9
Fair/poor	1,478	59.1	1,108	40.9
Mailing address					0.0002
Rural route	1,906	42.7	2,841	57.3
Street address	264	42.3	407	57.7
PO box
Missing	399	50.7	417	49.3

Note. Based on 6,261 eligible veterans. Abbreviations: wt.%, weighted percent; HS, high school. P value is based upon Rho-Scott chi-square. Cell sizes suppressed due to small cell sizes.