20 september, 27th national dental day. According to the survey, in the past year some 600 to 700 million people in the country suffered from various degrees of dental disease, with the highest incidence of disease, with more than two teeth per capita, and a high 80 per cent prevalence of dental disease。
In the face of such a huge consumer market, dental hospitals and outpatient clinics are also “spreading”, not only in their variety but also in their cost of treatment. This year, on the eve of the “daith day”, the newspaper's correspondents conducted an interview。
Current state of affairs
On these days, mr. Zhou, who lives in the zheng zheng district and the zhu district of dong shing, is worried about dental problems. The year before, one of his left teeth had to be changed this year because of the broken left of his jaw, and he had decided, on the advice of his friends, to choose the metal china that was closer to the real tooth. It was not expected that when he consulted several oral clinics, he learned that, depending on the metal material, metal china was divided into such categories as nickel chrome alloys, cobalt chrome alloys and titanium alloys. In addition to the variety of types of dentures, the price varies widely, even if one denture, which is also an alloy, there are hundreds of differentials in different oral clinics. “the price of dentures for imported materials is high, while the price of small dental clinics, while cheap, is worrying about quality, is annoying.” mr. Zhou said。
"now a better denture is more expensive than a gold chain." the dentures were changed and aunt zhang, who lived in the new district of combash, had told the press. Aunt zhang's two tiger teeth have been growing outwards and have recently become more severe, putting their upper lips up. At the beginning of the year, she was persuaded by her family to replace her with two, and then went to the oral clinic to listen to the price. Two imported dentures cost tens of thousands of dollars, while national plasters cost thousands. "we don't have a dentist we know. It's hard to choose by ourselves. If you change it, you'll need 10,000 teeth. It's so expensive, you can't measure it。
Eyewitnesses: oral clinics are hard to control for “splits everywhere”
Yesterday morning, journalists visited dong shing street and found that more than a dozen dental clinics were located on east ordos street alone. The costs of dentures in these clinics are, as the citizens reflect, quite high。
A journalist at a dental clinic near the building in east ordos city learned that, for example, the cheapest nickel chromium alloy is worth about $4,500, while cobalt chromium alloy and pure titanium alloy have broken a thousand dollars of “sharp”. In addition to this, clinics usually charge fees ranging from $50 to $200 for modeling during treatment, so that a single tooth is less than $1,000。
Subsequently, journalists entered a dental clinic near the wawa gate on behalf of their clients. After learning that journalists were going to change their family's dentures, the doctor explained that the average roasting dentures were $400, while the best aluminium oxidation dentures were $2,000, while the oxen oxide dentures were 3,000. In addition, during interviews, journalists learned that, owing to factors such as cyclicality and the degree of damage caused by dental disease, it is rare for a person with a dental condition to replace or treat a tooth alone in the course of treatment, so that even if the cost of a single tooth is not high, the cost of treating an additional tooth is doubled, so that there are no tens of thousands of dollars that are basically not available。
Survey: tooth phase-out with a fixed price of “national teeth” gear
In response to the high cost of treatment in the oral industry, journalists have found that, like many medicines, medical equipment and materials in the oral industry are too expensive to be separated from their distribution patterns. “in general, imported tooth-growing enterprises produce only products, and then find agents in the country to sell them to hospitals, where competitive bidding, sales, etc. Are handled by agents, leaving most of the profits to the middle.” during the interview, the head of a company operating medical devices near the central hospital told journalists that agents, distributors were “bridges” between imported fuel producers and hospitals, while the more bridges, the higher the costs. From the factory to the hospital, the teeth are grown through the factory, the national general agent, the local municipal agent to the hospital and the tender agency. Every link costs thousands of dollars to the patient。
“priority is high in the swiss iti, the swedish nobel, the german fiadan, and cheaper in the south korean ogtai, dio, etc. The purchase of teeth in korea by general hospitals costs $3,000, and the acquisition of teeth in iti, switzerland, costs more than 4,000. The cost of the hospital, combined with the cost of surgery, anesthesia, etc., is approximately $5,500. In the end, the patient needs $11,000 to complete the whole dental process.” during the interview, wang jun, who had sold medical supplies for almost 10 years, told journalists that the market had gradually been phased out because of the late start of the national oral-script industry and the lack of adequate accommodation. Today, the “ocean brand” of the oral market is already monopolized, with switzerland, germany and the republic of korea occupying the “triple ace”. There is a demand for teeth growing in the market, not only because patients lack the right to speak, but also because many buyers have difficulty negotiating their choice。
The economy is growing rapidly, and the chinese, who have always been “food-for-day”, have their mouths liberated, whether they be cold, cooked or sikawa, as long as you can. However, there are also a number of oral problems that arise after so much time has passed. In interviews, journalists found that in recent years, people's awareness of the need to protect their teeth had increased significantly, but that the excessive cost of treatment had kept a section of the population out of the door. It is true that the price of the disproportionately high part of the oral clinic cannot be understood by anyone who pays the consumer bill, but it is not easy to squeeze the “water” that is too high for “ocean-consuming materials”. Breaking the monopoly of “ocean-consuming materials” requires not only encouraging the development of ethnic industries, producing quality, affordable products and competing with imported products, but also government regulation of markets and the creation of an open, transparent and secure consumer environment. (sun beach)
