2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 424 167 40.6 34.8-46.7 257 59.4 53.3-65.2
GENDER
Male 202 76 44.2 35.7-53.1 126 55.8 46.9-64.3
Female 222 91 37.0 29.4-45.3 131 63.0 54.7-70.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 264 127 48.5 41.4-55.7 137 51.5 44.3-58.6
Non-Hispanic Black 82 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 71 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 170 46 28.8 21.3-37.7 124 71.2 62.3-78.7
45-64 150 64 49.8 40.5-59.1 86 50.2 40.9-59.5
65+ 94 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 130 30 27.3 18.5-38.2 100 72.7 61.8-81.5
Some Post-H.S. 120 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 171 86 54.2 45.6-62.7 85 45.8 37.3-54.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 127 25 21.4 13.6-32.0 102 78.6 68.0-86.4
$50,000+ 193 106 57.5 49.4-65.3 87 42.5 34.7-50.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 104 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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