Table 2.

Ordinal logistic regression on irregular dentist visits of non-hispanic whites, non-hispanic blacks, English-Speaking hispanics, and Spanish-Speaking hispanics in NHANES (2011–2016, N = 12,307).

	Non-Hispanic Whites	Non-Hispanic Blacks	English-speaking Hispanics	Spanish-speaking Hispanics
	(n = 5666)	(n = 3288)	(n = 1583)	(n = 1770)
Age(20–80+)	0.993***	1.003	0.993*	0.991**
	[0.990–0.995]a	[0.999–1.007]	[0.988–0.999]	[0.985–0.997]
Gender(ref = male)	0.702***	0.714***	0.693***	0.600***
	[0.635–0.776]	[0.627–0.812]	[0.577–0.833]	[0.504–0.714]
Single	1.043	1.144	0.825	0.921
	[0.936–1.162]	[0.998–1.312]	[0.680–1.002]	[0.759–1.118]
Education (ref = no high school)
Some High School	0.667*	0.932	0.714	0.793
	[0.488–0.912]	[0.671–1.296]	[0.463–1.101]	[0.623–1.009]
High School	0.471***	0.715*	0.564**	0.612***
	[0.351–0.632]	[0.521–0.981]	[0.370–0.859]	[0.475–0.789]
Some College	0.361***	0.539***	0.397***	0.539***
	[0.270–0.484]	[0.393–0.740]	[0.261–0.604]	[0.412–0.706]
BA or Higher	0.195***	0.318***	0.266***	0.331***
	[0.144–0.263]	[0.227–0.446]	[0.168–0.422]	[0.230–0.479]
Non-Citizenship	1.015	2.014***	1.102	2.058***
	[0.590–1.747]	[1.369–2.963]	[0.758–1.601]	[1.667–2.540]
Foreignborn (ref = U.S. born)	0.628**	0.795	0.695**	0.510***
	[0.459–0.859]	[0.622–1.014]	[0.551–0.876]	[0.369–0.704]
Family Income (ref = $19, 999 and less)
$20,000–44,999	0.693***	0.795**	0.775	0.827
	[0.606–0.793]	[0.677–0.934]	[0.600–1.003]	[0.676–1.011]
$45,000–74,999	0.505***	0.554***	0.504***	0.661**
	[0.430–0.594]	[0.456–0.675]	[0.378–0.673]	[0.509–0.858]
$75,000–100,000+	0.276***	0.420***	0.433***	0.470***
	[0.235–0.323]	[0.340–0.519]	[0.322–0.582]	[0.327–0.676]
Log likelihood	−6705	−4234	−2031	−2314
Chi- squared	965.3	367.5	170.8	229.1

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001. a, 95% CI.