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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Dent Assoc. 2020 Aug;151(8):596–606. doi: 10.1016/j.adaj.2020.04.026

Table 5.

A comparison of 2000 and 2016: proportion of respondents undergoing dental procedures (n = 14,700).

RUCC CATEGORY TYPE OF PROCEDURE
DIAGNOSTIC (%) PREVENTIVE (%) RESTORATIVE (%) PROSTHETIC (%) ORAL SURGERY (%)
2000 2016 Relative Change 2000 2016 Relative Change 2000 2016 Relative Change 2000 2016 Relative Change 2000 2016 Relative Change
1 84.6 85.4 1.0 76.2 82.5 8.3 21.4 17.6 −17.8 19.7 16.0 −19.2 9.7 8.2 −15.3
2 82.7 86.3 4.3 76.7 86.1 12.3 22.5 17.7 −21.3§ 20.8 13.1 −36.9 10.4 8.8 −15.1
3 84.0 86.8 3.4 77.9 86.7 11.4 25.3 17.5 −31.0 15.3 11.8 −23.0 11.1 7.5 −32.1
4 82.9 79.0 −4.7 79.7 84.0 5.5 19.8 15.7 −21.0 15.0 16.4 8.9 9.7 9.2 −5.2
5 85.0 77.1 −9.3 82.7 76.6 −7.4 18.6 21.3 14.4 13.7 11.9 −13.3 11.2 9.8 −12.6
6 82.2 87.4 6.3 71.5 79.2 10.8 22.9 24.3 6.0 15.9 12.7 −20.0 15.8 9.2 −42.2*
7 84.4 72.6 −14.0 70.7 68.0 −3.8 27.1 20.1 −26.0 24.7 19.8 −19.7 11.1 16.1 44.4
P .972 .013 .425 < .0001 .008 .097 .007 .008 .009 .045

RUCC: Rural−Urban Continuum Code (see Table 4 for category definitions).

P < .001.

P < .01.

§

P < .05.