Dental Insurance Health Care, Study finds an increase in socioeconomic disparities
Edentulism (tooth loss) has been the focus of a recent study, which traced it over the last hundred years. The project’s report highlights the numbers of people losing teeth and requiring dentures. The single most influential determinant of the decline was the passing of generations born before the 1940s, whose rate of edentulism incidence far exceeded later cohorts. High income households experienced a greater relative decline, although a smaller absolute decline, than low income households.