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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Spec Care Dentist. 2011 Mar;31(2):53–57. doi: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2011.00181.x

Table 2.

Patient population and variables collected.

African-American
N=357		 White
N=485
Prescription
Narcotic 289 (81%) 380 (78%)
None 68 (19%) 105 (22%)
Gender
Male 162 (45%) 241 (49%)
Female 195 (55%) 243 (51%)
Age (range 19–84):
19–45 132 (37%) 193 (40%)
46–65 95 (27%) 108 (22%)
>65 130 (36%) 184 (38%)
Insured
Yes 289 (81%) 383 (79%)
No 67 (19%) 102 (21%)
Pain at baseline*
Yes 243 (68%) 324 (67%)
No 16 (4%) 21 (4%)
Contraindications
Narcotic 5 (1%) 10 (2%)
NSAID 6 (1%) 14 (3%)
Both 0 2
*

Missing for 295 subjects.