11:49 17 WhatsApp Report on Access to Dental Care and Oral Health Inequalities in Ontario Laleh Sadeghi DDS, MSc Director, Oral Health Services, Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit Heather Manson MD, FRCPC, MHSc Chief, Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, Public Health Ontario Carlos R. Quinonez DMD MSc PhD FRCD(C) Assistant Professor and Program Director, Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto July 2012 Public Sante "Dr. Sadeghi completed this report during a practicum placement Health as part of the MSc (Dental Public Health) program in the Faculty publique of Dentistry at the University of Toronto. Ontario Ontario PARTNERS FOR HEALTH PARTENAIRES POUR LA SANTE Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge and thank the contributions of the following individuals during the course of this study: . Ken Allison, Senior Scientist, Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, PHO Ruth Sanderson, Manager, Analytic Services, Surveillance and Epidemiology, PHO . . Phat Ha, Research Coordinator, Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, P . Debi Spencer, Executive Assistant, Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, Brandy Thompson, Research Assistant, Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, This project was jointly funded by Public Health Ontario, the Population Health Improvement Research Network of the Applied Health Research Network Initiative, Government of Ontario, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.11:49 WhatsApp Table 4: Oral health status of Ontario residents according to their sociodemographic characteristics, CCHS 2005 (Prevalence and 95% confidence intervals) Tooth loss in the Experienced Social limitation in Frequent tooth last year due to Edentate (%) oral/facial pain or the last year due brushing dental decay/ gum discomfort in the to oral health (at least twice a disease (%) past month (%) conditions (%) day) (%) Sex Male 5.7 (5.3-6.2) 5.2 (4.9-5.6) 44.5 (43.7-45.2) 3.2 (2.9-3.4) 75.2 (74.5-75.8) Female 4.5 (4.2-4.8) 6.3 (6.0-6.7) 49.6 (48.9-50.2) 3.9 (3.6-4.1) 90.2 (89.8-90.6) Age group 12-19 1.0 (0.7-1.4) 0.9 (0.7-1.3) 54.3 (52.9-55.7) 4.1 (3.6-4.7) 82.4 (81.3-83.5) 20-44 3.8 (3.4-4.2) 1.6 (1.4-1.8) 50.7 (49.9-51.5) 3.5 (3.2-3.8) 85.7 (85.1-86.3) 45-64 7.1 (6.6-7.7) 6.5 (6.1-6.9) 43.6 (42.7-44.5) 3.8 (3.5-4.2 80.8 (80.1-81.6) 65 and older 9.6 (8.7-10.4) 22.6 (21.7-23.5) 36.1 (35.1-37.1) 2.4 (2.1-2.7) 76.5 (75.4-77.5) Household income No income or $80,000