. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Dent Assoc. 2020 Dec 24;152(2):94–104.e18. doi: 10.1016/j.adaj.2020.09.020

Table 1.

Percent of total opioid prescriptions attributable to the Dental Program in study sample

Sample and time period ^a	Opioid prescriptions for study sample
	Total prescriptions (A)	Dental program prescriptions^c
	N	N	% of total (A)
Under age 26, all years	848,760	138,085	16.3%
2009–2014^b	780,188	129,037	16.5%
2015–2017	59,524	9,048	15.2%
Age 26+, all years	3,260,288	204,510	6.3%
2009–2014^b	2,208,011	153,032	6.9%
2015–2017	1,062,277	51,478	4.9%
All ages, all years	4,109,048	342,595	8.3%
2009–2014	2,988,199	282,069	9.4%
2015–2017	1,120,849	60,526	5.4%

Notes:

Years are fiscal years; i.e., 2009 starts October 1, 2008.

A multiple logistic regression on proportion of opioid prescriptions found that the indicator variables for age group and time period and the interaction term of agegroup * timeperiod, were each significant, p<.001.

Includes surgical and non-surgical dental opioid prescriptions.