Early dental visits by age (annual) in Alaska

Definitions: The percent of parents who report that their 3-year-old child visited a dentist before the child's second birthday; the percent of parents who report that their 3-year-old child ever visited a dentist

Data Source: Alaska Childhood Understanding Behaviors Survey (CUBS) for 2008-2020, Alaska Division of Public Health's Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Unit. http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/wcfh/Pages/mchepi/cubs/data.aspx

More data on this topic can be found using the Childhood Understanding Behaviors Survey Data Visualization Tool Version 1.5.2: 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: 2022-12-27.

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

Updated December 2022

Definitions: The percent of parents who report that their 3-year-old child visited a dentist before the child's second birthday; the percent of parents who report that their 3-year-old child ever visited a dentist

Data Source: Alaska Childhood Understanding Behaviors Survey (CUBS) for 2008-2020, Alaska Division of Public Health's Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Unit. http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/wcfh/Pages/mchepi/cubs/data.aspx

More data on this topic can be found using the Childhood Understanding Behaviors Survey Data Visualization Tool Version 1.5.2: 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: 2022-12-27.

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

Updated December 2022