Table 3.

Logistic Regression Results for Dentate Rural Older Adults Modeling the Probability of Receiving Regular Dental Care and Receiving Recent Dental Care.

	Regular Dental Care			Recent Dental Care
Predisposing, Enabling, and Need Factors	OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI
Predisposing Factors
Age: 60 to 69 vs. 70 and older	1.09	0.51	2.33	0.83	0.43	1.60
Sex: female vs. male	1.19	0.53	2.70	1.46	0.62	3.41
Ethnicity
African American vs. White	1.36	0.38	4.91	1.79	0.60	5.35
Native American vs. White	0.45	0.18	1.09	0.79	0.34	1.86
Education
Less than high school vs. greater than high school	0.29	0.09	0.89	0.42	0.15	1.20
High school graduate vs. greater than high school	0.47	0.18	1.22	0.99	0.43	2.28
Dental Anxiety (continuous)	0.81	0.73	0.90	0.84	0.76	0.93
Enabling Factors
Medicaid: no vs. yes	0.74	0.18	2.96	0.98	0.33	2.92
Poverty Status: above poverty line vs. below poverty line	1.30	0.31	5.48	0.52	0.16	1.72
Dental Insurance: no vs. Yes	0.56	0.18	1.77	0.37	0.12	1.07
Regular place for dental care/advice: no vs. yes	0.11	0.02	0.83	0.16	0.04	0.62
Need Factors
Self-rated oral health: excellent, very good, good, vs. fair, poor	4.85	1.98	11.91	2.87	1.39	5.90
Number of teeth
1 to 10 vs. greater than 20	0.38	0.13	1.11	0.79	0.19	3.30
11 to 20 vs. greater than 20	1.09	0.43	2.77	0.77	0.29	2.06
Gingival recession: 0 vs. 1+ teeth above threshold	1.22	0.41	3.61	1.02	0.46	2.26
Mobility assessment: 0 vs. 1+ teeth above threshold	1.16	0.40	3.34	0.89	0.39	2.07
Decayed teeth: no vs. yes	1.87	0.92	3.80	2.27	1.19	4.32
Filled teeth: no vs. yes	0.27	0.11	0.67	0.26	0.08	0.88