2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 777 262 31.9 27.8-36.3 515 68.1 63.7-72.2
GENDER
Male 362 103 25.6 20.5-31.6 259 74.4 68.4-79.5
Female 415 159 38.0 31.8-44.6 256 62.0 55.4-68.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 401 182 41.0 35.2-47.1 219 59.0 52.9-64.8
Non-Hispanic Black 149 39 22.0 14.7-31.6 110 78.0 68.4-85.3
Other 209 32 9.9 5.8-16.3 177 90.1 83.7-94.2
AGE
18-44 260 58 18.7 13.7-25.0 202 81.3 75.0-86.3
45-64 267 91 35.4 28.1-43.5 176 64.6 56.5-71.9
65+ 240 108 49.1 40.3-57.9 132 50.9 42.1-59.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 273 48 19.0 13.4-26.3 225 81.0 73.7-86.6
Some Post-H.S. 262 89 29.6 23.1-37.1 173 70.4 62.9-76.9
College Graduate 241 125 55.4 47.3-63.2 116 44.6 36.8-52.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 297 52 15.1 10.6-21.1 245 84.9 78.9-89.4
$50,000+ 306 150 45.2 37.9-52.7 156 54.8 47.3-62.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 174 60 33.6 25.0-43.3 114 66.4 56.7-75.0

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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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