Explaining oral health inequalities in European welfare state regimes: The role of health behaviours

OBJECTIVE: To assess the extent to which behavioural factors, including those related to dental care, account for oral health inequalities in different European welfare state regimes. METHODS: Data from the Eurobarometer 2009 survey were analysed. Nationally representative samples of dentate adults aged ≥45 years (n = 9979) from 21 European countries classified into the five welfare regimes (Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, Bismarckian, Southern, Eastern) were considered. Inequalities in no functional dentition (having