At the military medical university of the air force oral hospital, the chief of the oral preventive section, xuan khun (sud ii), performed oral consultations for the party wing chi (sud iii)。
Six rural children were invited for oral examination free of charge by the air force military medical university oral hospital in sian, in conjunction with the village-based teams in cheukaku village, yanipaku village and siang village. Xinhua news agency journalist lee yibo
The problem of “planting a tooth is equivalent to buying a bmw” and “planting a tooth is equivalent to buying a house in a county” has been a major concern。
For some time now, national centralized procurement policies for medical consumables, such as cardiac stubs and artificial joints, have fallen, with significant price reductions and increasing calls for a reduction in the price of teeth growing through collective harvesting。
What's the cost of this? Can crowding rapidly push down the price of teeth growing? What policy support is needed to reduce the overall cost of tooth breeding? Journalists conducted investigative interviews around these issues。
Why is it so expensive to grow a tooth
In the last six months, a 35-year-old beam-up has planted four teeth. “the process of treatment has not yet been completed, and 60,000 have been spent.” leung liang said, “can't afford to grow”。
Dr. Wong wei, a doctor at a three-acoustic hospital in beijing, described three main types of repair programmes for dental deficiencies, namely, the planting of teeth, fixed bridges and activity teeth. “in addition to its appearance and useful life, the cultivation of teeth is not only comparable to that of real teeth, but also does not damage good teeth and is better at chewing and is therefore favoured by patients.”
The in-depth report on the tooth growing industry, published by the national sea securities in 2021, shows a rapid increase in the number of teeth grown in the country, reaching about 4 million in 2020, representing a 28. 2 per cent increase in sales。
The journalist called a number of public and private dental hospitals in beijing and was informed that the price of a single tooth was on average around $20,000。
According to a presentation by professor linno of oral cultivation, beijing university oral hospital, the cost of planting teeth is generally higher internationally, and its cost consists of four components: the cost of plant material, the cost of treatment techniques for growers, the cost of materials and technologies for prosthetics processing, and the cost of treatment techniques for repair doctors。
According to a bill from a dental specialist hospital, the cost of a single tooth growing unit consists mainly of the first stage surgery component, $2,600 for the plant, $320 for the healing base and $4,500 for the planting surgery; the second stage rehabilitation component, $1,500 for the repair of the base, $2450 for the mechanics (denture making) and $4050 for the repair treatment。
It is not difficult to find that, in addition to the cost of consumables such as planting bodies, treatment costs such as surgical and repair treatments account for the bulk of the cost of planting teeth。
Foresto indicated that public health institutions were carrying out planting treatment for complex anatomy conditions and suspected cases, that there was a higher demand for specialist growers, that it usually took more than 10 years for a specialist oral grower to develop a clinical doctor, and that education costs were high. In the operating costs of private dental facilities, the cost of manpower and rental space for doctors is also generally higher than the cost of the dental materials themselves。
Can we squeeze the price “water”
In recent years, reforms to centralize the procurement of medicines and high-value medical consumables have continued. The previous general meeting of the state council had pointed to the gradual expansion of the collection of high-value medical inputs, which included the collection of bone materials, pharmacological capsules and teeth at the national and provincial levels。
“collection integrates the quantity used by the object of the procurement, the total quantity is declared by the medical institution, and the `volume-for-volume' procurement is achieved by centralizing it.” the deputy director and associate researcher of the medical and nursing insurance research unit of the china institute of labour and social security science introduced the journalist。
There are indications that the cultivation of teeth is getting closer to the procurement of centralized belts。
In november last year, the sichuan provincial platform for the central purchase of medicines and the regulation of medicine prices issued a circular on the development of information-gathering on certain oral high-value medical material products, to be collected on some oral high-value medical materials。
In addition to sichuan, journalists have learned that the compilation of historical data on the procurement of dental consumables in zhejiang and ningxia, among others, is ongoing, and that these basic data will provide the basis for the local assembly pilot。
At the state council policy routine conference, held on 11 february, the deputy director of the national medical security agency, chen jin-fook, described the national health insurance agency as having been deployed since the beginning of 2021, with sichuan organizing an inter-provincial alliance to study dental collection protocols and to hear a wide range of clinical, corporate and local opinions. The programme is now largely mature。
“in the light of current policy, the bulk of the purchases in the area of tooth mining are for such materials as plants, which can achieve a reduction in this cost.” wang liang says。
Foresters believe that the inclusion of a centralized belt purchase for the planting of dental materials will certainly increase the efficiency of the purchase and reduce the cost of the materials and may reduce the cost of treatment for some brands of tooth growing for the benefit of the population. “but it is also important to understand the policy of collectivization correctly and to avoid overestimation of expectations. Collection is only for material costs such as planting plants and does not involve other costs. It costs about $700 for materials, but the total cost of surgical treatment is still about $20,000, as is the case for cardiac support
In addition, wang yin also indicated that while the current market for tooth growing is dominated by private institutions, which share a large share of the market, their willingness to participate in the collection is not clear, and if public health institutions are “low” they may affect their price reduction。
The overall decline in the price of teeth still requires a lot of effort
Fostering the development of good ethnic brand-breeding enterprises has been seen as an important way to reduce the price of teeth growing。
At this year's two national meetings, the national councillor and vice-president of guangzhou city council, hin wei, also made reference to the need to break down barriers to the import of dental waste and to accelerate the replacement of national products; and to strengthen the integration of productive research and studies and encourage the integration of oral science with new industries。
During the state council's policy routines, chen kim fu also indicated that through open and transparent competition, the clustering has gradually improved market-led price formation mechanisms, led enterprises to improve quality, actively pursued product research and development and promoted high-quality industry development。
It is understood that there are currently more than 50 imported tooth products on our market, with only 20 national product plates。
Wong wei confirmed to journalists that the technology of domestic growers is still in its infancy, as it is not supported by long-term clinical observations and valid data, is less reliable and is rarely used by hospitals。
“registration of domestic brands is complex, long-term and takes at least three years to register, as opposed to imported plantations, resulting in a reluctance on the part of some domestic firms to invest in dental products and a small number of national products.” lino added。
In order to further reduce the price of teeth growing, the development and supply of dental care staff should be kept up as soon as possible. Analysis by industry suggests that, as the medical workforce expands, the supply of and demand for oral medical personnel emerges from the “poor” and oral markets in order to gradually reduce the cost of treatment。
In addition, wang ying has indicated that we are currently in the process of establishing a system of co-insurance for workers ' basic health insurance outpatients and that we are faced with the need for a modest expansion of the coverage of personal accounts, and that consideration could be given to making the costs of tooth growing reasonably payable from the health insurance personal accounts, which is currently being piloted in ningbo. In the long term, dental protection can be based on commercial insurance in a multi-level health-care system, with commercial insurance to develop reasonable products。
