2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 841 372 43.0 39.0-47.2 469 57.0 52.8-61.0
GENDER
Male 390 155 38.2 32.4-44.4 235 61.8 55.6-67.6
Female 451 217 47.3 41.8-52.8 234 52.7 47.2-58.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 490 261 49.1 43.7-54.5 229 50.9 45.5-56.3
Non-Hispanic Black 182 69 39.6 31.3-48.5 113 60.4 51.5-68.7
Other 153 35 24.5 16.7-34.4 118 75.5 65.6-83.3
AGE
18-44 354 117 32.9 27.5-38.8 237 67.1 61.2-72.5
45-64 297 156 50.2 43.0-57.4 141 49.8 42.6-57.0
65+ 177 94 52.7 43.3-61.8 83 47.3 38.2-56.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 221 41 23.4 16.6-31.9 180 76.6 68.1-83.4
Some Post-H.S. 208 95 46.8 39.0-54.8 113 53.2 45.2-61.0
College Graduate 409 236 57.8 52.1-63.3 173 42.2 36.7-47.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 224 67 30.2 23.0-38.4 157 69.8 61.6-77.0
$50,000+ 432 246 55.4 49.7-61.0 186 44.6 39.0-50.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 185 59 32.1 24.5-40.7 126 67.9 59.3-75.5

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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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