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This study is a comparative analysis of dental utilization patterns of Chicanos and Anglos, using several socioeconomic variables to explain differences and similarities. It is found that Chicanos not only underutilize dental services, but that the services they do use are primarily those of a symptomatic nature. For Chicanos, socioeconomic variables play a negligible role in explaining dental utilization, although they are more important for Anglos. Incorporation of cultural and situational constraints into already existing SES models of explanation is recommended for the fiture research of the dental-utilization practices of this minority population.
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