Chinanews client, Beijing, March 29 (Reporter Xie Yiguan) What should I do if my teeth are broken, loose, or missing?
Go to the hospital to get a mouthful of teeth, but when you get the price list, you will understand what it means "for the mistakes you made on your teeth when you were young, you will eventually have to double to pay for it."
Data map: The patient is treated in the hospital.
Photo by Xu Lanqing (not related to graphics and text)
Plant a tooth, the most expensive
price is 110,000
Elderly people will always face the problem of "old teeth". Compared with traditional restoration methods such as dentures, dental implants are considered by the industry to be an ideal method for restoration of missing teeth due to their chewing function similar to natural teeth and long service life. .
Xiaolin, who works in Beijing, has been worrying about his mother's teeth for some time.
Due to the inadequate long-term care of the teeth, the mother's teeth have become loose and fall out in recent years.
But when Kobayashi consulted the dental clinic for dental implants, he was still shocked by the price.
"The cheaper ones cost a few thousand yuan, and the better ones cost tens of thousands. If you plant a tooth, my monthly salary will be gone."
It is not only Xiao Lin who lamented that dental implants are expensive. "After spending more than two hours in a team to look at the teeth, one implant was 12 thousand. My heart began to bleed on the spot, and it was too expensive to see the teeth." Many consumers vomit. "I have made preparations for dental implants to be very expensive. I didn't expect it to be so expensive. I worked hard for a whole year, and I went back one year ago.
How expensive are dental implants?
A reporter from Chinanews.com browsed the charging information of many dental hospitals and clinics in Beijing and found that according to the different implants, the price will be divided into multiple levels.
Imported dental implants from South Korea and the United States charge less than 10,000 yuan. The price of Swiss ITI implants is more than 15,000 yuan, and the price of Nobel CC implants in Sweden is nearly 20,000 yuan.
The most expensive one is the ALL-ON-FOUR American ET dental implant with a price tag of 110,000.
The charge list listed by a dental hospital on Meituan.
"ALL-ON-FOUR is a half-oral dental implant, so the fee is higher. If it is a single implant, this type is not used." A staff member of a dental hospital explained to the reporter that in terms of type selection, everyone’s The width and thickness of the alveolar bone and the amount of bone are not the same. You need to see which one is suitable for the patient. This requires going to the hospital for an examination first, determining a plan, and then comparing the same plan, so that you can find which grade is suitable.
It’s worth noting that, "Although the price of dental implants listed will include inspection costs and surgical costs, if bone grafting or maxillary enhancement is required, the price will be calculated separately. There are more than 1,000 yuan, and there are also 3,000 yuan. Diverse." The staff added.
At another chain dental hospital, the staff said, “Now there is a tooth-loving project subsidy for dental implants, with a subsidy of 3000-7000 yuan for a single tooth. Then, according to the different brands of implants, the total price is also 5000 yuan to 10,000 yuan. Diversified."
"Growing full mouth teeth is equivalent to buying a house in the county"
"The cost of a single dental implant is between 6000-22000 yuan, and the price range is large. Implants are the core variable." Ping An Securities pointed out in a research report that the average cost of a single dental implant is 12000 yuan. It accounts for about 40% and is the core component of the planting system.
The second is the cost of diagnosis, treatment and surgery, accounting for 25%. The higher the hospital level and the more skilled the doctor, the higher the corresponding price.
In other words, a person’s teeth generally have 28 to 32 teeth. If calculated at 12,000 yuan each, the cost of planting a tooth will cost more than 300,000 yuan. Consumers who have planted full-mouth teeth ridicule: "My mouth , Including a BMW".
"If you plant a full mouth tooth, it is equivalent to buying a house in the county." Recently, Li Xiaoli, part-time vice chairman of the Feidong County Federation of Trade Unions in Hefei, once said that because of a hospital below the county level, the oral treatment clinic receives an average of about 30 patients per day, an average of one. The cost of dental implant treatment is about 6000-20000 yuan.
Why does the price of teeth remain high?
Insiders said that from the factory to the hospital, the dental implant system has to go through the manufacturer, the national general agent, the prefecture-level city agent, and then to the hospital, bidding agency and other links.
Each link incurs costs, and a product of several thousand yuan becomes tens of thousands of yuan in the hands of patients.
“Dental implants also require a long period of time. Tooth extraction before surgery and repeated follow-up review after surgery, etc., the cost of simple materials and processing costs are not low.” A dentist with 15 years of clinical experience told a reporter from Chinanews.com. "A dental implant can be used in the end, after at least 20 links, each link has a corresponding cost."
Moreover, implants are basically monopolized by imported products, and there is no domestic bargaining power.
According to data from the Head Leopard Research Institute, in the field of dental implants, foreign companies represented by Noble Biocare in Sweden, Strauman in Switzerland, Dentsply Friadent in the United States, Biomet 3i, Zimmer, and Osstem in South Korea account for more than 90% of China’s market share. .
Data map: In the service robot special exhibition area of the Service Trade Fair in 2020, the dental implant surgery robot attracts visitors.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
According to industry insiders, the high labor cost of dental implant institutions also affects the price.
A report from the Whale Research Institute pointed out that among specialty hospitals, the proportion of human labor costs in dental hospitals is as high as 44.3%, ranking first among all hospitals.
Why is the labor cost of dental hospitals high?
The above-mentioned dentist told the reporter of Chinanews.com, “Implant surgery is a high-level operation in the clinical dentistry. It requires training based on many years of surgical experience to master it, and it must be combined with rich prosthetic experience to do it well. The general clinical experience is ten. It is rare for dentists under the age to say that they will be able to implant. They will continue to learn from the world's top colleagues and update their knowledge. Therefore, the cost of training a mature implant doctor is quite high."
However, in the eyes of some consumers, the high price of dental implants is also related to the barbaric growth of the industry.
According to reports from institutions, as of 2017, 20% of all formal oral medical institutions in China are public institutions, 0.6% are chain specialist hospitals, 6% are chain clinics, and the remaining 73.4% are individual dental clinics.
The industry urgently needs a unified standard
According to the fourth national oral health epidemiological survey, up to 97% of adults in my country are suffering from oral problems, and middle-aged and young adults aged 20-39 have become the main force for dental implant surgery.
"From 2011 to 2018, the number of domestic dental implants increased from 130,000 to approximately 2.4 million, with a compound growth rate of 51.7%." A report issued by Dongxing Securities in 2019 showed.
Data map: A certain local dentistry expert provides free oral examinations for the public.
Chen Jing
However, “the high marketization trend of the dental medical industry is obvious, social capital has invested in the dental medical industry one after another, and private dental chain institutions are blooming everywhere. Due to the lack of unified standards, the quality is uneven, and the bargaining competition is serious." Chen Ying, Chairman of Hunan Haoyayi Dental Medical Group Express to the media.
According to the "Blue Book of Compliance for Chinese Pharmaceutical Companies and Medical Institutions (2019-2020)", from 2019 to August 2020, among the 785 cases of administrative punishment imposed by Beijing and Shanghai against 586 medical institutions, 273 were oral medical institutions. , Accounting for the largest proportion.
Some local regulatory authorities even conducted supervision and inspection of dental hospitals and found that some hospitals were clearly not qualified but performed dental implant operations for profit.
Li Xiaoli suggested that specific norms, procedures and policies related to dental implants should be promulgated as soon as possible, and a unified regulatory system for dental implant materials and service charges, implant quality and the level of implant dentists should be formulated.
“In the face of chaos in the dental implant market, such as disregard for patient safety and arbitrary pricing, it is recommended that regulators make good use of the powers of administrative guidance, administrative supervision, and administrative penalties for market access granted by the law to protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. Consumers should not blindly listen to advertisements. , Sign the contract seriously." Liu Junhai, a professor at Renmin University of China Law School, told a reporter from Chinanews.com.
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