These data represent prevalence estimates of select oral health topics from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

2000-2018. Water Fluoridation Statistics is a biennial report of the percentage and number of people receiving fluoridated water from 2000 through 2018, originally published at http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/statistics/index.htm. For more information, see: http://www.cdc.gov/oralhealthdata/overview/fluoridation_indicators.html

2011-2022. The ASTDD Synopses of State Oral Health Programs contain information useful in tracking states’ efforts to improve oral health and contributions to progress toward the national targets for Healthy People objectives for oral health. A subset of the information collected from the most recent five years is provided on the Oral Health Data website. For more information, see http://www.cdc.gov/oralhealthdata/overview/synopses/index.html

State, 2016 –2020; County, 2020. The report includes both state and county level water fluoridation data generated from the Water Fluoridation Reporting System (WFRS). State level statistics include data from the biennial report originally published at https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/statistics/reference_stats.htm. State and county data include percentage of people, number of people, and number of water systems receiving fluoridated water. County level data is not displayed for all states. Participation in sharing county level data is voluntary and state programs determine if data will be shown.

Data for School year-end 1994 through year-end 2020. State oral health surveys are the data sources for these indicators. States periodically conduct independent screening surveys of a probability sample designed to be representative of all third-grade students in the state. Some states also conduct surveys of students in other grades in school, or of Head Start program enrollees. This surveillance activity is voluntary. States submit their data to the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD), where the survey design and data collected are reviewed for quality and against the criteria for inclusion in NOHSS, before being sent to CDC for inclusion in Oral Health Data. For more information, see: http://www.cdc.gov/oralhealthdata/overview/childIndicators/

2012-2020 (even years). Data from BRFSS for indicators of adult oral health for even years from 2012 through 2020. National estimates are represented by the median prevalence among 50 states and the District of Columbia data. Estimates are prepared from the BRFSS public use data sets. Estimates in this file are not age adjusted, and may differ slightly from estimates available from the BRFSS web site or Chronic Disease Indicators due to small differences in definition, age adjustment or rounding. For more information, see: https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealthdata/overview/Adult-Indicators.html.

This dataset is based on indicators described in MMWR "Indicators for Chronic Disease Surveillance — United States, 2013" (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr6401a1.htm) before 2024 CDI refresh. It provided cross-cutting set of 124 indicators that were developed by consensus and that allows states and territories to uniformly define, collect, and report chronic disease data that are important to public health practice and available for states, and territories. In addition to providing access to state-specific indicator data, the CDI web site (www.cdc.gov/cdi) provides current release and additional information and data resources.