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7.5.1 Dental Health
7.5.1.1 National Adult Dental Health Survey
The Information Centre (Information Centre for Health and Social Care 2010) has
published preliminary findings from the Adult Dental Health Survey 2009. The survey
consisted of a questionnaire interview with all adults aged over 16 years at all sampled
households, and an oral examination of the mouth and teeth of all those adults who had
at least one natural tooth. The sample size for the survey was 13,400 households (1,150
in each English Strategic Health Authority and Wales, and 750 households in Northern
Ireland). A total of 11,380 individuals were interviewed, and 6,469 dentate adults were
examined, making this the largest ever epidemiological survey of adult dental health in
the United Kingdom.
The main purpose of these surveys has been to get a picture of the dental health of the
adult population and how this has changed over time. A summary of the findings can be
found in Table 65.
Table 65: Summary results from national adult dental health survey, 2009
Sub-group
Dentate
(%)
Number of
natural teeth (%)
21 or Fewer
more than 21
Mean
number of
teeth
All 94 86 14 25.6
Gender
Men
Women
95
93
86
86
14
14
25.8
25.5
16-24 100 100 0 28.6
25-34 100 99 1 28.8
35-44 100 97 3 27.6
Age (years)
45-54
55-64
99
95
91
74
9
26
26.0
23.1
65-74 85 61 39 20.9
75-84 70 40 60 17.1
85+ * 53 26 74 14.0
Socio- Managerial & professional 97 91 9 26.5
economic Intermediate occupations 95 85 15 25.3
group Routine & manual 90 79 21 24.6
*Figures in italics represent an unreliable estimate. Any analysis using these figures may be
invalid.
There are clear gradients in the proportion of respondents with their natural teeth by age
as may be expected, ranging from 100% of those aged 16-24 to 53% of those aged 85+.
In addition there is a clear gradient in the proportion of adults with 21 or more natural
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