Oral Health in America
The ADA Specialty Scan--Prosthodontics, just published (Dec. 19, 2012), gives the following facts about lost teeth:
- more than 35 million Americans have no teeth (are edentulous) and 178 million U.S. residents are missing at least one tooth
- among seniors, the ratio of edentulous people is 2 to 1; about 23 million are edentulous and 12 million are edentulous in one arch
- nine out of ten edentulous Americans have dentures
- the number of partially edentulous Americans is expected to rise to more than 200 million over the next 15 years
- about 15% of the edentulous population has dentures made each year
Source: American College of Prosthodontists
Robert G. Tupac, DDS, FACP, Inc.,
Diplomate, American Board of Prosthodontics
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