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Any permanent teeth removed: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Any permanent teeth removed. All 49 states and District of Columbia with data in Tooth loss and smokeless tobacco use by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-03

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Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 27.6 %
RI 38.5 %
DE 41.9 %
CT 38.6 %
NJ 40.9 %
MD 39.3 %
MA 37.8 %
VT 37.5 %
NH 39.8 %

Lowest: 27.6 to 37.8 %
Group 2: 37.8 to 39.3 %
Group 3: 39.3 to 41.9 %
Group 4: 41.9 to 44.3 %
Highest: 44.3 to 53.1 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	West Virginia	53.1
2	Mississippi	48.4
3	Kentucky	47.9
4	Arkansas	47.6
5	Alabama	46.6
6	Louisiana	46.3
7	Florida	45.3
8	Maine	44.7
8	Pennsylvania	44.7
10	Oklahoma	44.3
11	South Dakota	44.2
12	Missouri	43.6
12	North Carolina	43.6
14	Ohio	43.5
15	Indiana	43.3
16	New York	43.2
17	South Carolina	43.1
18	Nevada	42.5
19	Michigan	42
20	Delaware	41.9
21	Georgia	41.4
22	New Jersey	40.9
23	New Mexico	40.6
24	Illinois	40
25	Arizona	39.9
26	New Hampshire	39.8
27	Hawaii	39.7
28	Maryland	39.3
28	Montana	39.3
28	Wisconsin	39.3
31	California	39.2
31	Kansas	39.2
31	Oregon	39.2
34	Texas	39.1
35	Wyoming	38.9
36	Alaska	38.8
37	Connecticut	38.6
38	Rhode Island	38.5
39	Iowa	38.1
40	Massachusetts	37.8
41	Virginia	37.6
42	Vermont	37.5
43	Nebraska	37.3
44	Idaho	36.9
45	North Dakota	36.7
46	Washington	35.1
47	Minnesota	34.7
48	Colorado	34.5
49	Utah	32.6
50	District of Columbia	27.6

Source: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, BRFSS Prevalence Data (2011 to present), data.cdc.gov dataset dttw-5yxu. Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by any permanent teeth removed (2024). Data: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), BRFSS Prevalence Data (2011 to present), data.cdc.gov dataset dttw-5yxu; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-any-permanent-teeth-removed/

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