Table 2 details the impact of different subjective (toothache and inaccessible needed dental care) and objective (dental caries and immediate dental needs) measures of oral health on students’ school absences because of dental problems. Almost 16% of students with toothaches in the past 6 months missed school compared with 3% of those without tooth- aches (P<.001). Also, almost 11% of students with inaccessible needed dental care in the past year missed school compared with 4% of those who had access to dental care ( P<.001). The impact of these subjective measures of oral health (toothache and inaccessible needed dental care) on attendance was consistently and statistically significantly higher among those with poorer oral health when we com- pared levels of schooling, genders, and between Asians and other Hispanics. Of students with caries, 6% missed school compared with 4% of those without caries, which was not statistically significant; however, 9% of students with urgent dental needs missed school compared with 5% of those without urgent dental needs (P=.048; Table 2). Neither whether the child had dental insurance nor whether English was the first or main language spoken at home was statistically significantly correlated with the child’s number of missing school days for dental problems (data not shown).
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