This page disseminates results that supplement existing publications or manuscripts. Most files can be opened using MS Internet Explorer. For some, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Tables of substantive results or statistical methods

From 2008

Click here to see two tables that accompany: Boykin MJ, Gilbert GH, Tilashalski KR, Litaker MS. Racial differences in baseline treatment preference as predictors of receiving a dental extraction versus root canal therapy during 48 months of follow-up. Journal of Public Health Dentistry 2008; in press. The first table shows predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics of persons in the sample, by race. The second table shows a “parsimonious” regression of receipt of extraction or root canal treatment during follow-up, in which only two variables (worst periodontal attachment loss and the CHOICE variable) are modeled as predictors of this outcome. The model fit of this regression model (Model 3 in the table labeled A2) is statistically the same as the model fit in Model 2 of the same table.

Click here to see Tables A1 – A3 that accompanies: Gilbert GH, Bader JD, Litaker MS, Shelton BJ, Duncan RP. Patient-level and practice characteristics associated with receipt of preventive dental services: 48-month incidence. Journal of Public Health Dentistry 2008; in press. An additional table (Table A4) has the baseline characteristics of the 597 FDCS subjects who were included in the data analyses for this paper. To see that table, click here.

Click here to see a table of FDCS subjects' baseline characteristics that accompanies: Meng X, Gilbert GH, Litaker MS. Dynamics of satisfaction with dental appearance among dentate adults: 24-Month incidence. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 2008; 36(4): 370-381.

From 2007

Click here to see a table of means and standard errors of characteristics of dental practice(s) attended during follow-up, by race and level of formal education of the FDCS participant. This supplements a similar table in the manuscript that shows results stratified by household income instead of education. Click here to see a table of means and standard errors of characteristics of dental practice(s) attended, by approach to care. These supplement: Gilbert GH, Litaker MS, Makhija SM. Differences in quality between dental practices associated with race and income mix of patients. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2007; 18(4): 847-867.

Click here to see a table that accompanies: Meng X, Gilbert GH, Duncan RP, Heft MW. Satisfaction with dental appearance among diverse groups of dentate adults. Journal of Aging and Health 2007; 19(5): 778-791. This table shows the prevalence of dissatisfaction, by socio-demographic characteristics and approach to care.

Click here to see a table that accompanies: Gilbert GH, Litaker MS. Validity of self-reported periodontal status in the Florida Dental Care Study. Journal of Periodontology 2007; 78(7s): 1429-1438. This is a table of a multiple logistic regression of periodontal attachment loss, by race. This provides a race-specific assessment of the validity of self-reported periodontal status.

Click here to see a table that accompanies: Tilashalski KR, Gilbert GH, Boykin MJ, Litaker MS. Racial differences in treatment preferences: oral health as an example. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2007; 13(1):102-108.

From 2006

Click here to see two tables that accompany: Gilbert GH, Shewchuk RM, Litaker MS. Effect of dental practice characteristics on racial disparities in patient-specific tooth loss. Medical Care 2006; 44(5): 414-420.

From 2005

Click here to see SAS output from a sensitivity analysis of Table 2 (a logistic regression of whether or not the tooth lost 3 or more millimeters of attachment between the baseline and 48-month examinations) in Gilbert GH, Shelton BJ, Fisher MA. 48-month periodontal attachment loss incidence in a population-based cohort study: role of baseline status, incident tooth loss, and specific behavioral factors. Journal of Periodontology 2005; 76(7): 120-129.

From 2004

Click here to see a SAS macro called MULTIV_BINARY_GEE.  This file can be opened using either Netscape or MS Internet Explorer.  This macro is discussed in: Shelton BJ, Gilbert GH, Liu B, Fisher MA. A SAS macro for the analysis of multivariate longitudinal binary outcomes. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 2004; 76(2): 163-175. A SAS dataset called "paradox.sas7bdat" is also available as a zip file, which you could use to run the macro (click here for the dataset -- you must have SAS to download this dataset because it is in SAS format).   

From 2003

Click here to see SAS output from models #2 and #3 that appear in Table 3 of: Gilbert GH, Duncan RP, Shelton BJ. Social determinants of tooth loss. Health Services Research 2003; 38(6, Part II): 1843-1862.

Click here to see a SAS macro to do a multivariate-multivariable binary outcomes regression, which in this case is a simultaneous regression of three dichotomous outcomes.  This was used in:  Gilbert GH, Shelton BJ, Chavers LS, Bradford EH Jr. The paradox of dental need in a population-based study of dentate adults. Medical Care 2003; 41(1): 119-134.

Click here to see an analysis of fees charged FDCS participants by private dental practices for dental radiographic services.  This description should be read in conjunction with:  Gilbert GH, Weems RA, Shelton BJ. Incidence of dental radiographic procedures during a 48-month population-based study of dentate adults. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endodon 2003; 96(2): 243-249.

From 2002

Click here to see two tables that list the predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics used in multivariable logistic regression modeling in: Gilbert GH, Shah GS, Shelton BJ, Heft MW, Bradford EH Jr, Chavers LS. Racial differences in predictors of dental care use. Health Services Research 2002; 37(6): 1487-1507.

Regarding "oral disadvantage", across years

Click here to see three tables of the pattern of oral disadvantage during the first 24 months of observation.  These are relevant to:

(a) Chavers LS, Gilbert GH, Shelton BJ. Chronic oral disadvantage, a measure of long-term decrement in oral health-related quality of life. Quality of Life Research 2004; 13(1): 111-123.

(b) Chavers LS, Gilbert GH, Shelton BJ: Two-year incidence of oral disadvantage, a measure of oral health-related quality of life. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 2003; 31(3): 21-29.

(c) Chavers LS, Gilbert GH, Shelton BJ: Racial and socioeconomic disparities in oral disadvantage, a measure of oral health-related quality of life: 24-month incidence. Journal of Public Health Dentistry 2002; 62(3): 140-147.

Tables of agreement between test-retest questionnaires and inter-examiner reliability examinations

Click here to see a table of baseline questionnaire test-retest reliability results.  This file can be opened using Adobe Acrobat.

Click here to see a table of 48-month questionnaire test-retest reliability results.  This file can be opened using Adobe Acrobat.

Click here to see a table of baseline clinical examination inter-examiner reliability results.  This file can be opened using Adobe Acrobat.

Click here to see a table of 24-month clinical examination inter-examiner reliability results.  This file can be opened using Adobe Acrobat.

Click here to see a table of 48-month clinical examination inter-examiner reliability results.  This file can be opened using Adobe Acrobat.