Table 1.
Distribution of 632 U.S. dentists according to practice/practitioner characteristics and whether they completed the survey using the mailed-paper version instead of online.
| All (N=632) | Mail, Paper (N=84) |
Online (N=548) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | N | % | n | % | n | % | p |
| Sex | 0.02 | ||||||
| Male | 512 | 81% | 76 | 90% | 436 | 80% | |
| Female | 120 | 19% | 8 | 10% | 112 | 20% | |
| Race-Ethnicity | 0.07 | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 502 | 79% | 73 | 87% | 429 | 78% | |
| Other/unknown | 130 | 21% | 11 | 13% | 119 | 22% | |
| Graduation year | <0.001 | ||||||
| <1970 | 30 | 5% | 13 | 15% | 17 | 3% | |
| 1970–79 | 171 | 27% | 28 | 33% | 143 | 26% | |
| 1980–89 | 208 | 33% | 21 | 25% | 187 | 34% | |
| 1990–99 | 140 | 22% | 20 | 24% | 120 | 22% | |
| 2000 or later | 83 | 13% | 2 | 2% | 81 | 15% | |
| General practitioner | 0.07 | ||||||
| Yes | 584 | 92% | 82 | 98% | 502 | 92% | |
| No | 48 | 8% | 2 | 2% | 46 | 8% | |
| US Region | 0.2 | ||||||
| Midwest/Northeast | 84 | 13% | 6 | 7% | 78 | 14% | |
| Southeast | 495 | 78% | 72 | 86% | 423 | 77% | |
| West | 53 | 8% | 6 | 7% | 47 | 9% | |
| Practice setting | 0.3 | ||||||
| Solo private | 351 | 56% | 55 | 65% | 296 | 54% | |
| Group private | 168 | 27% | 17 | 20% | 151 | 28% | |
| PDA/HP | 82 | 13% | 9 | 11% | 73 | 13% | |
| Other | 31 | 5% | 3 | 4% | 28 | 5% | |
PDA: Permanente Dental Associates; HPDG: HealthPartners Dental Group