Table 2. Percentage of patients undergoing caries risk assessment at first comprehensive oral evaluation by patient characteristics, university pre-doctoral clinic (2007-2014).

Patient characteristic	Number of comprehensive oral evaluations1	Number of evaluations with a caries risk assessment	Percent of evaluations with a caries risk assessment	p-value (Chi-square test)
Age (years)				<0.001
18-34	6479	5503	84.9
35-44	3456	2856	82.6
45-54	3977	3167	79.6
55-64	3955	3193	80.7
≥65	3657	2871	78.5
Sex				0.28
Female	11,299	9201	81.4
Male	9904	8122	82.0
Race/ethnicity				<0.001
African American	2292	1855	80.9
Asian	3405	2778	82.1
Caucasian	9759	8014	81.6
Hispanic	4166	3426	82.2
Other/declined to state	2376	1602	67.4
Payer type				<0.001
Private insurance	2719	2222	81.7
Public program	4424	3598	81.3
Cash	14,004	11,752	83.9
Total	21,984	17,662	80.3

¹Total within some characteristics is less than the grand total due to missing data on patient characteristics