Share of U.S. children and adolescents with oral health problems in 2022, by state
Louisiana and New Mexico were the states with the highest percentage of children and adolescents aged 1 to 17 years who had oral health problems in 2022. At that time, around 19 percent of children and adolescents in these two states had oral health problems. In total, 14 percent of children and adolescents in the U.S. had such problems.