Lifestyles and preventive practices. Absolute figures 
Frequency of tooth brushing, by sex and Autonomous Community. Population 3 years old and over
Units: thousands of persons

	Total	More than three times a day	Three times a day	In the morning and at night	In the morning and after lunch	After lunch and at night	Once a day in the morning	Once a day after lunch	Once a day at night	Occasionally, not every day	Never	Other	No data recorded	
BOTH SEXES	
    Total	43,040.0	1,147.4	11,309.5	10,280.1	1,176.7	3,363.4	2,704.2	1,009.7	6,370.2	3,326.0	1,063.9	430.3	858.6	
    Andalucía	7,643.4	194.6	1,689.5	1,649.4	221.7	741.2	441.4	206.6	1,335.2	734.5	262.1	121.5	45.7	
    Aragón	1,238.4	37.3	373.7	219.9	24.3	146.0	72.7	28.6	184.9	115.9	27.4	6.4	1.1	
    Asturias (Principado de)	1,032.9	49.9	404.2	157.8	18.3	146.8	44.5	31.3	115.3	32.5	26.1	3.6	2.6	
    Balears (Illes)	982.9	37.3	229.9	335.4	22.5	53.9	89.9	20.1	137.1	43.2	10.4	2.2	1.0	
    Canarias	1,940.2	59.1	783.7	581.7	42.2	101.7	115.5	31.2	130.5	59.7	32.9	2.0	0.0	
    Cantabria	549.2	16.1	239.1	117.3	14.6	31.3	31.8	15.5	43.1	23.8	10.3	4.5	1.9	
    Castilla y León	2,420.6	35.2	681.4	466.2	93.3	166.8	146.5	82.8	396.0	268.3	56.6	8.1	19.3	
    Castilla-La Mancha	1,882.2	39.3	357.1	427.5	33.2	125.4	114.0	75.3	392.6	220.1	89.4	5.0	3.4	
    Cataluña	6,824.3	139.3	1,235.7	1,703.5	188.1	505.0	482.2	122.2	1,225.2	463.9	109.2	15.2	634.8	
    Comunitat Valenciana	4,613.4	114.4	1,053.2	1,288.7	143.9	315.1	402.2	115.2	634.1	402.7	135.5	8.5	0.0	
    Extremadura	1,039.1	26.2	229.6	152.3	29.0	64.5	70.4	29.1	192.8	150.2	56.3	32.2	6.6	
    Galicia	2,651.8	67.4	844.5	463.9	90.0	261.3	161.9	92.2	361.0	222.6	66.1	16.5	4.5	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	5,851.5	212.7	1,920.7	1,758.6	118.8	296.6	284.6	75.2	592.4	223.8	93.8	172.1	102.0	
    Murcia (Región de)	1,323.2	29.5	252.7	345.9	29.3	122.7	102.2	35.3	201.2	152.8	39.0	4.9	7.9	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	572.5	18.4	191.5	106.0	21.6	54.8	29.9	13.4	84.6	32.9	16.9	1.8	0.5	
    País Vasco	2,046.2	60.4	726.2	428.5	70.2	183.9	85.2	24.5	256.8	137.0	21.0	25.7	26.9	
    Rioja (La)	296.3	4.1	64.7	37.1	11.7	42.9	10.9	9.7	71.9	34.9	8.2	0.1	0.0	
    Ceuta and Melilla	132.0	6.1	32.1	40.3	3.8	3.4	18.6	1.6	15.7	7.1	2.8	0.1	0.4	
MALES	
    Total	21,248.4	377.7	4,299.6	4,818.5	522.4	1,596.2	1,645.3	548.4	3,704.1	2,362.3	718.5	262.9	392.5	
    Andalucía	3,792.7	55.1	675.8	769.4	97.2	358.1	258.7	120.5	691.3	499.8	174.5	73.0	19.2	
    Aragón	618.9	10.7	144.0	114.2	13.4	65.3	39.0	13.3	114.5	83.3	18.4	1.8	1.0	
    Asturias (Principado de)	492.4	14.3	166.9	64.4	9.2	71.4	26.8	20.7	69.7	26.4	19.7	1.9	1.0	
    Balears (Illes)	494.7	12.4	104.4	161.0	9.2	27.4	55.3	11.6	82.0	25.1	4.6	1.8	0.0	
    Canarias	963.5	23.1	300.2	292.9	25.6	51.9	82.3	18.8	93.6	50.3	24.9	0.0	0.0	
    Cantabria	269.7	4.5	96.1	60.6	6.2	14.7	24.3	9.7	27.0	16.9	6.8	2.0	0.8	
    Castilla y León	1,195.4	10.4	260.6	217.7	37.9	65.0	92.5	43.0	230.5	194.2	35.3	2.1	6.3	
    Castilla-La Mancha	945.9	9.0	106.4	201.3	18.0	55.3	73.5	30.5	236.2	146.3	61.2	5.0	3.4	
    Cataluña	3,373.5	46.3	452.2	795.6	73.9	212.0	291.5	71.1	709.1	344.8	64.6	14.2	298.2	
    Comunitat Valenciana	2,303.7	34.2	357.3	591.4	59.6	167.5	235.1	64.5	387.6	294.2	105.7	6.5	0.0	
    Extremadura	519.1	12.5	90.1	66.0	15.3	25.4	36.4	15.0	106.6	92.8	40.5	15.7	2.9	
    Galicia	1,278.3	17.2	289.1	208.5	47.0	133.5	100.5	52.4	212.1	164.5	44.9	8.0	0.7	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	2,833.6	93.2	780.8	814.7	56.3	153.6	170.0	29.1	367.5	152.7	57.4	110.8	47.4	
    Murcia (Región de)	665.4	11.4	100.1	162.6	11.6	55.3	58.8	18.7	111.0	104.2	26.7	2.3	2.7	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	285.7	3.2	69.9	52.7	9.5	28.2	19.8	8.0	54.2	27.9	11.2	0.8	0.2	
    País Vasco	1,000.5	16.3	267.2	208.3	25.4	90.2	64.3	15.1	162.6	110.6	15.4	17.0	8.1	
    Rioja (La)	149.7	1.6	25.6	16.4	5.9	19.8	7.0	5.0	41.1	22.7	4.7	0.0	0.0	
    Ceuta and Melilla	65.7	2.4	12.9	20.8	1.3	1.5	9.6	1.5	7.5	5.5	2.2	0.1	0.4	
FEMALES	
    Total	21,791.6	769.7	7,009.9	5,461.6	654.2	1,767.2	1,058.9	461.4	2,666.2	963.7	345.4	167.4	466.1	
    Andalucía	3,850.7	139.5	1,013.7	880.0	124.5	383.1	182.6	86.1	643.9	234.7	87.6	48.5	26.5	
    Aragón	619.4	26.6	229.7	105.7	11.0	80.7	33.7	15.3	70.4	32.6	9.1	4.6	0.1	
    Asturias (Principado de)	540.6	35.6	237.3	93.5	9.1	75.4	17.7	10.6	45.6	6.1	6.5	1.6	1.5	
    Balears (Illes)	488.2	24.8	125.6	174.4	13.3	26.6	34.7	8.5	55.1	18.1	5.8	0.3	1.0	
    Canarias	976.8	36.1	483.5	288.8	16.7	49.9	33.2	12.5	36.8	9.4	8.0	2.0	0.0	
    Cantabria	279.4	11.6	142.9	56.7	8.3	16.6	7.5	5.8	16.1	6.8	3.4	2.5	1.1	
    Castilla y León	1,225.2	24.8	420.8	248.6	55.4	101.8	54.0	39.7	165.5	74.1	21.3	6.1	13.0	
    Castilla-La Mancha	936.3	30.3	250.7	226.2	15.3	70.1	40.5	44.8	156.4	73.7	28.2	0.0	0.0	
    Cataluña	3,450.8	93.0	783.4	907.9	114.2	293.0	190.7	51.1	516.0	119.2	44.6	1.1	336.6	
    Comunitat Valenciana	2,309.8	80.2	695.9	697.3	84.3	147.5	167.1	50.8	246.5	108.6	29.7	1.9	0.0	
    Extremadura	519.9	13.6	139.5	86.3	13.7	39.0	34.0	14.1	86.3	57.5	15.8	16.5	3.7	
    Galicia	1,373.6	50.2	555.3	255.4	43.1	127.8	61.5	39.8	148.9	58.1	21.2	8.5	3.8	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	3,017.9	119.5	1,140.0	943.8	62.6	143.0	114.6	46.1	224.9	71.1	36.5	61.3	54.6	
    Murcia (Región de)	657.8	18.1	152.6	183.2	17.7	67.4	43.4	16.6	90.2	48.6	12.3	2.6	5.2	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	286.8	15.3	121.6	53.4	12.0	26.6	10.1	5.5	30.4	5.0	5.7	1.0	0.2	
    País Vasco	1,045.6	44.1	459.0	220.2	44.8	93.7	20.9	9.3	94.2	26.4	5.6	8.7	18.7	
    Rioja (La)	146.6	2.6	39.1	20.7	5.8	23.2	3.9	4.7	30.8	12.2	3.5	0.1	0.0	
    Ceuta and Melilla	66.2	3.7	19.2	19.5	2.5	1.9	9.0	0.1	8.2	1.6	0.6	0.0	0.0	
Notes:
The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which cannot be provided since it may be affected by sampling errors.
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as data which is not collected.
 The symbol '...' shall be deemed as an 'error of division by zero'.
Source: Ministry of Health and Consumption and INE