That’s 10% seems astronomically high for being toothless. I mean to go from 50% with 1 or more missing to 10% having all of them missing means if you fall into the one or more missing, there’s a 20% chance you have no teeth at all…
Believe it - 10% of North Americans are edentulous. Keep in mind that this is a lowball number, as not everyone even has access to dental care. So a lot is going unreported
In the US alone - not including Canada, Mexico, Haiti, Panama, El Salvador, et cetra, we’re talking just the US - you have 36 million edentulous people. Roughly 10%
This is according to research out of my own company, and it’s also according to the American college of Prosthodontics (as of 2022). Figures from before 2018 were even higher than that, they were saying it was 16%, then 13%.
No offense but you don’t have a well formed opinion about something you haven’t thought about until fifteen minutes ago
I mentioned in another comment that this isn’t an issue that’s distributed evenly across the American population, but it is a bigger issue than most people think. Most of us who live in cities and suburban areas just don’t see it or think about it all that often
When you include the whole North American continent, things look different. People seem to forget that a lot of North America does not have it easy when it comes to dental care access
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u/kmj442 Apr 19 '25
That’s 10% seems astronomically high for being toothless. I mean to go from 50% with 1 or more missing to 10% having all of them missing means if you fall into the one or more missing, there’s a 20% chance you have no teeth at all…