Table 2.

Recipients of Preventive Dental Care and Percentage Change¹ Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, 2002 and 2011

	2002		2011		%Change
	Number	Weighted percent	Number	Weighted percent	2011% minus 2002%	Significance
ALL	3392	40.1	3074	43.1	3.0	**
Diabetes Mellitus
Yes	477	28.8	643	36.0	7.2	***
No	2915	42.9	2431	45.4	2.6	*
Sex
Women	1956	40.2	1766	44.3	4.1	***
Men	1436	40.0	1308	41.5	1.5
Race/Ethnicity
White	3064	44.7	2687	47.5	2.8	*
African American	87	13.0	114	20.9	7.9	***
Latino	138	23.1	173	29.1	6.0	*
Other	96	31.4	89	29.0	−2.4
Age in Years
65–69 years	639	42.2	583	44.1	1.9
70–74 years	883	41.7	752	46.6	4.9	**
75–79 years	780	42.0	645	43.1	1.1
80 and older	1090	35.4	1094	39.0	3.6	**
Metropolitan Status
Metropolitan	2639	42.7	2460	45.9	3.2	**
Non-Metropolitan	753	31.7	614	33.6	1.9
Education
Less than High School	518	18.6	280	16.3	−2.3	*
High School	1240	40.3	963	38.2	−2.1
Some College	609	51.3	574	51.1	−0.2
College	1019	66.7	1250	66.3	−0.4
Poverty
Less than 200% FPL	1122	24.7	854	24.7	0.0
GE 200% FPL	2270	56.0	2220	58.3	2.3
Dental Insurance
Yes	382	76.8	616	78.1	−0.7
No	3070	38.1	2458	38.5	0.4

Note: This study is based on older Medicare Beneficiaries, aged 65 years and above, continuously enrolled in fee-for-service Medicare and alive during the observation year (that is, the participant did not drop out of Medicare coverage).

Asterisks represent significant differences in preventive dental care by observation year for each characteristic based on chi-square tests.

¹Percentage Change is the difference of the weighted percent of year 2011 minus the weighted percent of year 2002;

FPL: Federal Poverty Line; GE: Greater than or Equal.

^***p < 0.001;

^**0.001 ≤ p < 0.01;

^*0.01 ≤ p < 0.05