DATA STORY
Children's Oral Health Data
Data about oral health and access to dental care for pregnant people, infants, and children in San Francisco. Scorecard, trends, disparities, maps, and peer-reviewed research.
Department of Public HealthFind data
Download oral health data at Datasf.org. Use the 'topic' column to filter to 'Dental'.
Use the interactive figures on this page to find graphs, tables, and maps of data from surveys, health screenings at child care centers, insurance, emergency room visits, hospital admissions, and medical records.
Current status scorecard
Find out rates of key indicators of children's oral health.
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Time trends
Use the reset button to show all filter options. Select one oral health indicator. Next, select a type of insurance or race-ethnicity. The available time period(s), age and sex groups will show in the filters. Data are only available in some years for some groups. Hold down the 'ctrl' key to select more than filter choice.
The line graph can show annual trends, such as steady year-to-year increases or decreases, or period-specific change, such as different rates before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Interact with the data! To see a table of rates with more information about each rate, click the 'check confidence intervals' button. Two rates are significantly different if their confidence intervals do not overlap.
Data are only shown if at least 20 people had the health condition each year. For small groups, trends may only be visible when multiple years are combined into a 3- or 5-year period.
Oral health disparities
Use the reset button to show all filter options. Select one oral health indicator. Next, filter the data by type of insurance or race-ethnicity. Next, select the time period(s), age and sex group. Hold down the 'ctrl' key to select more than filter option.
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Interact with the data! To find out details about each rate, click on the 'check confidence intervals' button.
Results are only shown if the selected health condition happened to at least 20 people in the group in the time period.
Click the blue 'reset selections' button to reset the filter options.
Oral health maps
Use the filters to select an oral health indicator, time period, age and sex group to see a map of rates of the selected indicator by zip code.
Zip codes with the highest rates are highlighted in dark orange.
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Interact with the data! Hover your cursor over the map to see details for each zip code. To reset the map click on the blue "reset selections" button.
To check if two rates differ, click the "check confidence intervals" button and compare the confidence intervals.
Data summaries
Email hello@cavityfreesf.org to request pdf summary reports of:
- Cavity Free SF strategic plan 2014-2020
- Cavity Free SF strategic plan indicators 2015-2022
Research about children's oral health in San Francisco
Local research about children's oral health:
Dental public health practice in California
Health equity through community engagement
drinking water effects on oral health
Oral health collective impact effort
Data notes
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Data limitations:
Data are only shown for groups with at least 20 people in the selected time period to protect individual privacy and avoid unreliable estimates due to small numbers.
Sex-specific results are limited to All, Male, or Female groups, because information was not available about other gender identities.
The specific definition of each health condition depends on the data source, population group and/or time period. Results may differ across data sources, population groups and/or time periods because of different definitions.
There is always chance of administrative mistakes in data. To explain or use the data, consider possible sources of error in the definition, record keeping, and/or analysis.