You used to have a toothache, you had to take half a day off, walk on a motorcycle to the county city, line up, spend the day. A tooth, light travel and time could be more expensive than treatment. Now, no。
Today, 25 june, the oral section of the yellowtail town health department of anhuyashi county was officially opened. How different is this place? In the north of the county, where people used to look at their teeth, they had to travel to and from the town, which was time-consuming. And now, you'll take less than 30 minutes to solve the underlying problems of filling and pulling teeth in the town health center。
A doctor at the yellowtail town health institute provides oral treatment to patients
This is not an example. In the past year, modern oral clinics in the health centres of the towns and villages of guangdong, zhejiang and zhejiang yangshan towns have been in intensive practice. Your feeling, “this time you don't have to break your leg”, is changing from case to case。
Time and money, more than half
Get you into a specific scene and see the changes better。
Time first. You used to go from yellowtail to county for at least an hour; now you're going from home to the clinic for 10 minutes. In guangdong point town, which covers approximately 100,000 people around it, the time cost has been reduced by more than 80 per cent since the pilot operation, when “a regular half-day per week runs to see the city's teeth” was transformed into “a day off to a health facility”. Say money. This may be the central reason why you are determined not to go to the county, to look in the town. At the national level, in 2026, six basic types of dental care, such as dental filling and tooth extraction, were included in the uniform health insurance reimbursement scheme, and a special dental fund was established. At the grass-roots level, the effects are more direct。
Hwang hae-feng, a resident of lake point, has calculated a sum of money: “the city used to cost hundreds of dollars for tooth reading, and now it can afford social security, a discount and a lot of savings.” as a result of the reimbursement of health insurance in rural health centres, the cost of dental care can be reduced by more than 50 per cent。
Although there is, there is still a pit to be careful
Things are getting better, but it may be too early if you fully trust the dentist at home now. Filling the gap in the oral cavity solves the problem of whether there is any, but the challenge of “good” is just beginning。
First of all, you might still be a "go-go-go-go" in your heart. Even with a c. T., a clinic, you'd think, "is this doctor good? Is it broken?" it's not your suspicion, it's a real technical trust barrier. In some places, patients prefer to spend more time running for county towns rather than taking the risk of having doctors at the grass-roots level run。
Although the medical community is helping the district experts to sit down on a regular basis, your trust may be shaken once they withdraw。
Secondly, your “complicated issues” are still unstoppable. At present, the majority of the rural health centres have oral departments that deal mainly with routine projects such as filling, extraction and cleaning. If you need to do root tube re-treatment, digitally grow your teeth, or touch a bending tube like a fish hook, i'm sorry, but at the grass-roots level, you still have to refer to the county。
This means that the grass roots can deal with your "basic toothache" but not your "complex tooth" disease。
Thirdly, there is a longer-term danger that “people” are still difficult to retain. This is the worst problem in all primary health care. There have been reports of the loss of dozens of mid-level and above doctors in some district hospitals within three years. Rural health centres are more difficult to attract and retain young people because of their remoteness and low pay. In some places, local cadres are trained through “teachers”, but cycles take 1-2 years。
If the team cannot catch up, today's opening of the oral section may close tomorrow because no one is working。
Fix a tooth and rebuild a bridge
So, filling this gap in basic orals really solves your "tooth far" pain
The answer is: it's solved, but not completely. For you, the most intuitive feeling is that time and wallet are loose. You don't have to spend half a day on a simple tooth. The health insurance reimbursement makes you look at the value of your teeth in a health clinic, far beyond county city。
But it failed to resolve your “resuspension” to a grassroots doctor, nor did it cover your back teeth, which need to be “boiled”. Behind this is the “slow work” of talent development and long-lasting mechanisms, which is far more complex than buying a ct device。
To complete the basic dental work, it is a tooth, but rather a chain of trust in a set of grass-roots health services. The next time you walk into the dentist's room in the county health centre, you don't have any more grunts in your heart, but you sit on it — it's only then that it's really done。
