Some may have stopped going to the dentist regularly during the worst year of the COVID-19 pandemic and never gotten back on a good dental cleaning schedule.
Only 64.4 % of the working-age Americans in a typical state said in 2022 that they had gone to the dentist for any reason in the previous 12 months.
The median was down from 67.2% in 2018, according to the latest available dental visit data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey program.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
