Dental caries experience in U.S. adults by age and ethnicity 2011-2012
This statistic displays the experience of dental caries among adults in the United States caries in 2011-2012, based on age and ethnicity. During this time, 85.6 percent of non-Hispanic black adults had experience with dental caries. In general, oral health-related quality of life tends to decline among older adults due to tooth loss and decay.