Preventative practices
Frequency of tooth brushing, by sex and Autonomous Community. Population aged 3 years old and over
Units: percentages

	Total	More than three times a day	Three times a day	In the morning and in the evening	In the morning and after lunch	After lunch and in the evening	Once a day in the morning	Once a day after lunch	Once a day in the evening	Occasionally, not every day	Never	Other	
BOTH SEXES	
    Total	100.00	2.72	26.81	24.37	2.79	7.97	6.41	2.39	15.10	7.88	2.52	1.02	
    Andalucía	100.00	2.56	22.24	21.71	2.92	9.76	5.81	2.72	17.57	9.67	3.45	1.60	
    Aragón	100.00	3.01	30.21	17.78	1.97	11.80	5.88	2.31	14.95	9.36	2.22	0.52	
    Asturias (Principado de)	100.00	4.85	39.23	15.32	1.78	14.24	4.32	3.04	11.19	3.15	2.54	0.34	
    Balears (Illes)	100.00	3.80	23.42	34.16	2.29	5.49	9.16	2.04	13.97	4.40	1.06	0.22	
    Canarias	100.00	3.05	40.39	29.98	2.18	5.24	5.95	1.61	6.72	3.08	1.69	0.10	
    Cantabria	100.00	2.94	43.68	21.44	2.66	5.71	5.81	2.83	7.88	4.34	1.87	0.82	
    Castilla y León	100.00	1.47	28.38	19.42	3.89	6.95	6.10	3.45	16.49	11.17	2.36	0.34	
    Castilla-La Mancha	100.00	2.09	19.01	22.75	1.77	6.67	6.07	4.01	20.90	11.71	4.76	0.26	
    Cataluña	100.00	2.25	19.96	27.52	3.04	8.16	7.79	1.97	19.79	7.50	1.76	0.25	
    Comunitat Valenciana	100.00	2.48	22.83	27.93	3.12	6.83	8.72	2.50	13.74	8.73	2.94	0.18	
    Extremadura	100.00	2.54	22.24	14.75	2.81	6.24	6.82	2.81	18.68	14.55	5.45	3.12	
    Galicia	100.00	2.55	31.90	17.52	3.40	9.87	6.12	3.48	13.63	8.41	2.50	0.62	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	100.00	3.70	33.41	30.59	2.07	5.16	4.95	1.31	10.30	3.89	1.63	2.99	
    Murcia (Región de)	100.00	2.24	19.21	26.30	2.23	9.33	7.77	2.69	15.30	11.61	2.96	0.37	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	100.00	3.23	33.48	18.54	3.77	9.59	5.24	2.35	14.79	5.76	2.96	0.31	
    País Vasco	100.00	2.99	35.96	21.22	3.48	9.11	4.22	1.21	12.72	6.79	1.04	1.27	
    Rioja (La)	100.00	1.40	21.83	12.53	3.96	14.50	3.67	3.26	24.26	11.79	2.76	0.05	
    Ceuta and Melilla	100.00	4.62	24.40	30.63	2.87	2.60	14.12	1.23	11.92	5.41	2.14	0.05	
MALES	
    Total	100.00	1.81	20.62	23.10	2.50	7.65	7.89	2.63	17.76	11.33	3.45	1.26	
    Andalucía	100.00	1.46	17.91	20.39	2.57	9.49	6.86	3.19	18.32	13.25	4.63	1.93	
    Aragón	100.00	1.74	23.30	18.49	2.16	10.56	6.32	2.16	18.53	13.47	2.97	0.29	
    Asturias (Principado de)	100.00	2.91	33.97	13.10	1.88	14.53	5.46	4.21	14.18	5.38	4.00	0.39	
    Balears (Illes)	100.00	2.51	21.10	32.55	1.85	5.53	11.17	2.34	16.58	5.07	0.93	0.37	
    Canarias	100.00	2.39	31.16	30.40	2.65	5.38	8.54	1.95	9.72	5.22	2.58	0.00	
    Cantabria	100.00	1.68	35.75	22.54	2.32	5.47	9.02	3.59	10.05	6.29	2.53	0.76	
    Castilla y León	100.00	0.87	21.91	18.31	3.19	5.47	7.78	3.62	19.38	16.33	2.97	0.17	
    Castilla-La Mancha	100.00	0.96	11.28	21.35	1.91	5.86	7.80	3.23	25.06	15.53	6.49	0.53	
    Cataluña	100.00	1.50	14.70	25.87	2.40	6.90	9.48	2.31	23.06	11.21	2.10	0.46	
    Comunitat Valenciana	100.00	1.48	15.51	25.67	2.59	7.27	10.20	2.80	16.82	12.77	4.59	0.28	
    Extremadura	100.00	2.43	17.46	12.78	2.97	4.93	7.04	2.90	20.64	17.97	7.84	3.04	
    Galicia	100.00	1.35	22.63	16.32	3.68	10.45	7.86	4.10	16.60	12.88	3.51	0.62	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	100.00	3.35	28.02	29.24	2.02	5.51	6.10	1.04	13.19	5.48	2.06	3.98	
    Murcia (Región de)	100.00	1.72	15.10	24.54	1.75	8.35	8.87	2.83	16.76	15.72	4.03	0.34	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	100.00	1.11	24.50	18.45	3.34	9.89	6.94	2.79	18.99	9.78	3.92	0.28	
    País Vasco	100.00	1.64	26.92	20.99	2.56	9.09	6.48	1.52	16.38	11.15	1.55	1.72	
    Rioja (La)	100.00	1.04	17.07	10.99	3.97	13.19	4.69	3.32	27.43	15.19	3.11	0.00	
    Ceuta and Melilla	100.00	3.63	19.82	31.84	1.95	2.36	14.70	2.25	11.52	8.38	3.44	0.10	
FEMALES	
    Total	100.00	3.61	32.87	25.61	3.07	8.29	4.97	2.16	12.50	4.52	1.62	0.78	
    Andalucía	100.00	3.65	26.51	23.01	3.26	10.02	4.78	2.25	16.84	6.14	2.29	1.27	
    Aragón	100.00	4.29	37.09	17.07	1.77	13.03	5.44	2.47	11.36	5.26	1.46	0.75	
    Asturias (Principado de)	100.00	6.61	44.03	17.34	1.69	13.98	3.29	1.96	8.47	1.12	1.20	0.30	
    Balears (Illes)	100.00	5.10	25.77	35.80	2.73	5.45	7.11	1.75	11.32	3.72	1.19	0.07	
    Canarias	100.00	3.69	49.50	29.57	1.71	5.10	3.39	1.27	3.77	0.96	0.82	0.20	
    Cantabria	100.00	4.16	51.35	20.38	2.99	5.95	2.70	2.10	5.79	2.46	1.24	0.89	
    Castilla y León	100.00	2.05	34.72	20.50	4.57	8.40	4.46	3.28	13.66	6.11	1.76	0.50	
    Castilla-La Mancha	100.00	3.23	26.78	24.16	1.63	7.49	4.32	4.79	16.71	7.87	3.02	0.00	
    Cataluña	100.00	2.99	25.16	29.15	3.67	9.41	6.12	1.64	16.57	3.83	1.43	0.03	
    Comunitat Valenciana	100.00	3.47	30.13	30.19	3.65	6.39	7.23	2.20	10.67	4.70	1.29	0.08	
    Extremadura	100.00	2.64	27.02	16.71	2.65	7.56	6.59	2.72	16.71	11.13	3.06	3.20	
    Galicia	100.00	3.66	40.54	18.65	3.14	9.33	4.49	2.90	10.87	4.24	1.55	0.62	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	100.00	4.03	38.47	31.85	2.11	4.83	3.87	1.56	7.59	2.40	1.23	2.07	
    Murcia (Región de)	100.00	2.78	23.38	28.08	2.71	10.32	6.65	2.54	13.81	7.44	1.88	0.40	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	100.00	5.34	42.43	18.62	4.20	9.29	3.54	1.91	10.60	1.74	1.99	0.34	
    País Vasco	100.00	4.30	44.70	21.44	4.36	9.12	2.03	0.91	9.17	2.57	0.55	0.85	
    Rioja (La)	100.00	1.76	26.69	14.10	3.95	15.83	2.63	3.20	21.02	8.31	2.41	0.10	
    Ceuta and Melilla	100.00	5.59	28.92	29.43	3.78	2.84	13.54	0.22	12.32	2.49	0.86	0.00	
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