Definition

The percent of parents who report that their 3-year-old child visited a dentist before the child's second birthday by Alaska Public Health Region; the percent of parents who report that their 3-year-old child ever visited a dentist by Alaska Public Health Region. These are 3-year moving averages.

Data Source

Alaska Childhood Understanding Behaviors Survey (CUBS) for 2012–2014 through 2020–2022, Alaska Division of Public Health's Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Unit.

More data on this topic can be found using the Childhood Understanding Behaviors Survey Data Visualization Tool Version 1.5.: Alaska Department of Health, Division of Public Health, Section of Women's, Children's, and Family Health; https://alaska-dph.shinyapps.io/CUBS/ accessed on: 2025-01-17.

Notes

Three years of data were combined to minimize the unreliability of measurement due to the small number of actual events. The reported values are a moving average across three years. For example, we report the average value across the years 2012, 2013, and 2014.

The percentages reported above have been produced by weighting the survey results so that estimates better represent the Alaska population.

Last Updated

2024-10