Who dares say it doesn't make money? With wine and wine and glasses, it's called the three most lucrative industries. But now, in 2024, there were about 6,000 dental clinics running around the country. By the first three months of 2025, more than 230 private oral institutions had closed their doors. Some of the clinics were still in attendance the first day and the next day the signs were removed. At this rate, even the next gym owner has to look at the thumbs。
Ask anyone. Who hasn't spent money at the dental clinic? Take out a regular tooth, a few hundred bucks to the bottom. A thousand teeth? Root tube therapy, orthodontic braces, $45,000 is kind of nice. Growing teeth is far more ridiculous, and it's a million dollars. But do you know how much this tooth cost? The factory is only $12,000, and some of the materials produced in the country cost only several hundred dollars. At the clinic, five or six times more is routine. The difference between this is in the clinic's pocket。
That's the profit. Who doesn't have eyes? So, in the past few years, oral clinics have been running like crazy. By 2019, about 76,000 households nationwide had jumped to almost 136,000 by 2025. In six years, the number almost doubled. Three or four dental clinics can be seen in one street, which is more secret than a pharmacy. On the other hand, everyone needs to know: is this a bit crowded
The clinic alone does not count, and capital goes in. In 2021, the oral track was a capital pet. In that year, 85 cases were financed by private oral institutions, amounting to more than $13 billion. Redwood, gao qi, and china are coming in line. Even the metro, the byte beats. A lot of money comes in, and the market changes。
It's too much money, and the competition is sick. And every clinic fights hard for a price, and you send me down, and none will yield. Some of the tens of thousands of previous projects, such as the planting of teeth, have been directly pressurized by clinics. What's the price drop? The national health insurance agency has published a data that has reduced the overall cost of a single tooth growing unit from approximately 15,000 to about 6,000, or almost 60 per cent. You can't survive a small clinic if you're losing so much profit。
After the price fight, some clinics started to think differently. Costs are reduced if prices are not reduced, and everything is done with poor material, false propaganda, low-priced diversion and tied consumption. The number of complaints rose. At this point, the oral industry is no longer a matter of making more or less money, but someone is starting to lose money. What if we lose? Close the door, run the road。
What really changes the whole industry is national policy. Since 2023, dental care has been integrated throughout the country. In february 2025, the national health insurance agency issued another document with a heavy weight to consolidate the dental fee line into 114 items in six main categories, requiring the provinces to complete the docking by the third quarter of 2025。
There has also been a steady advance in tooth harvesting, with the rise of the korean brand and even the launch of local chinese production, and the price of planters has dropped from 5,000 to 2380 before the harvest。
As a result of these policies, private clinics have become more difficult. There was no good time for self-pricing, and in late 2025 more than a dozen provinces introduced a maximum steering price for oral projects. Your clinic can't afford to go beyond the government line. Why go to your private clinic
Changes in public hospitals are also evident. The surge in the number of outpatients is particularly difficult to sign, the number of seconds is not available, and the queue is not moving for weeks. The people voted with their feet and the money went to the public system. But the problem has also arisen — 92 per cent of the country's more than 130,000 oral institutions are privately owned, with a small public share. The gap between supply and demand has not been filled in a short time。
Back to the run-off, the closure was understandable, but the nature of the run-off was completely different. Between may and august 2025, there was a series of thunderstorms in the open sea, in guiyang and chang shado, involving 328 patients, resulting in the removal of more than 2 million people. The chain is very sophisticated, with frequent renaming, cross-provincial registration of new subjects and one shot for another place. The changsana store, which received an advance payment for the planting of teeth from a group of elderly patients, closed its doors as soon as it was unearthed。
It's not going to be any better in beijing. It's been an old brand since 2006. It's been running for almost 20 years. As of january 2026, there were seven cumulative cases of executed persons, amounting to $2. 260 million. Chengdu's joyful mouth was even harsher, with seven branches operating in the chengsu area, and suddenly the money ran and owed 3 million rents and millions. The patient's orthodox program is halfway through, and it's stopped。
It's the coldest mess left by the running clinic. Some patients still have screws in their mouths and are waiting for the second stage of planting; some have paid, none of their teeth have been filmed; others have come to the clinic for the rehabilitation programme; some have gone to the designated clinic to take over; the original ct information and treatment programme have been lost. You want to go on? Re-check, re-schedule, take care of yourself. The tooth thing, it cost two bucks。
That's what makes people angry. Tooth is not a joke. It is the first shut-down of the digestive system, chewing, pronouncing and holding on to the face structure. Half of the time, it's gone unattended, it's expensive, it's probably a health problem. It's not the same level as running a gym or closing a barber shop. And those who seek nothing but to earn and then run away, and who say the worst of it, they do not care about others。
The capital market is just as bleak. The reeer group, once the "first share of dentistry", issued hk$14. 62 in 2022 when the shares were listed. By march 2025, the stock price had dropped by two dollars and the water had contracted by over 80 per cent. Secondary markets are the most honest and investors are voting with money. The golden age of the oral industry is indeed over。
Is this business completely cool? It doesn't matter. The chinese oral services market, which reached 333. 5 billion in 2025, is expected to grow to 375. 3 billion in 2026. Moreover, china spends about $44 per person per year on dental care, the united states $405 and japan $228. Market demand has been going on, and the problem has been the disruption of supply。
Let's look at it this way. Who's this shuffle out? It's because of bad information, it's because of bad material, it's because it takes money to run. There's either a real technology or a real reputation. This may not be bad for ordinary patients. The changes that we, the average people, benefit from have been reduced from more than 10,000 to 6,000 dollars, from 30,000 to 10,000 dollars in corrective action, and from the fact that we can take care of ourselves。
The dental business will not disappear, but the good days of the windfall will not come back. The state is regulating pricing, the market is squeezing bubbles and consumers are becoming more sophisticated. Those who want to sell tens of thousands at hundreds of dollars, don't think about it. The industry is going through, not extinction, shaving. It hurts so much that you can walk。
One last word. No matter how the industry changes, how the clinic washes cards, there's one thing that shouldn't change -- the patient comes into your door, you're in charge. What did you say about the medical vows? "healthy, life depends. "the clinic can be small and the eight words cannot be lost。
