2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Oral Health

In the past year, have you had a dentist or dental hygienist check for oral cancer by pulling on your tongue with gauze wrapped around it,
feeling under the tongue and inside the cheeks, and checking the back of your throat?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,401 1,378 37.8 35.7-40.0 2,023 62.2 60.0-64.3
Medicaid Region 1 392 178 38.2 32.3-44.4 214 61.8 55.6-67.7
GENDER
Male 171 70 35.2 26.6-44.9 101 64.8 55.1-73.4
Female 221 108 40.9 33.4-48.8 113 59.1 51.2-66.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 338 161 39.2 32.9-45.9 177 60.8 54.1-67.1
Non-Hispanic Black 15 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 34 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 87 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 149 *** *** *** *** *** ***
65+ 146 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 118 32 20.7 13.8-29.8 86 79.3 70.2-86.2
Some Post-H.S. 113 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 161 94 55.5 45.9-64.7 67 44.5 35.3-54.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 153 48 23.0 16.4-31.3 105 77.0 68.7-83.6
$50,000+ 173 103 56.7 47.2-65.8 70 43.3 34.2-52.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2022 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2022 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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