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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Public Health Dent. 2012 Feb 7;72(3):235–245. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-7325.2012.00313.x

Table 4.

Distribution of Self-Rated Oral Health for Dentate (with Some Teeth) and Edentate (with No Natural Teeth) Adults Aged 50 Years and Older Who Participated in Community-Based Oral Health Examinations Conducted by Dentists (n = 708): The ElderSmile Program, New York, NY, August 2006 to March 2009

Self-reported oral health Dentate adults (n = 586) Edentate adults (n = 122) P-value*
Excellent 9 (1.5%) 10 (8.2%) <0.01
Good 208 (35.5%) 49 (40.2%)
Fair 185 (31.6%) 44 (36.1%)
Poor 184 (31.4%) 19 (15.6%)
*

P-value corresponds to the test of linear trend for ordinal data using the Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel chi-square test.