Exploring Contributing Factors to Oral Health Disparities Seen Among Adult Immigrants

Abstract

The objective of the research study was to help identify sociodemographics, socioeconomic status, and cultural barriers that may have been a contributing or limiting factor to immigrants’ oral health. Each of these factors were looked at closer by narrowing down possible subproblems among three immigrant social groups of Brazilian, Indian, and Korean ethnicities at the researchers’ respective local churches (4 in total). A total of one-hundred and forty-nine subjects (n=149) were involved in the research study.