Parents were asked whether their children had received all of the preventive dental services they felt they needed. Those who said “no” had children who had either received no preventive dental care (although their parents felt they needed it) or had seen a dentist in the past year (but the parent felt that the child did not receive all the care he or she needed).

Overall, parents of the vast majority of children (92.9 percent) reported that their children received all the preventive dental care they needed in the past year. This rate is relatively consistent across children’s age groups, although it does rise with family income. Of children with family incomes below 100 percent of the Federal poverty level (FPL), 86.4 percent received all the preventive dental care they needed, according to their parents, compared to 88.1 percent of children with family incomes between 100 and 199 percent of FPL, 94.6 percent of children with family incomes between 200 and 399 percent of FPL, and 97.7 percent of children with family incomes of 400 percent of poverty or more.

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