Recently, "expensive dental care" has once again become a hot topic on the Internet, and has evoked various discussions on the topic of the dental industry. According to reports, the most expensive dental implants are as high as 80,000 a piece, and the cost of planting three or four is as high as hundreds of thousands of dollars. A media survey found that in public hospitals, the price of a dental implant ranges from 6,000 yuan to 13,000 yuan. The industry's complaint that replacing teeth is expensive actually means that dental implants are too expensive, and the fact that they are too expensive has to do with the fact that we can't produce a good dental implant on our own.
In the public perception, the phenomenon of "expensive dental care" can be said to have a long history. In particular, in recent years, the news of "sky-high prices for dental implants" has appeared frequently, coupled with the blossoming of private dental clinics, reinforcing this deep-rooted stereotype. In this regard, many people are full of grievances, directly criticized the dental hospital profiteering clouds. But the problem is that dental care has long been a highly market-oriented mature industry, seems to be abnormally high "pricing" in fact are the product of full competition. In view of this, the view of the "expensive dental" problem, perhaps far more complex than we imagined.
On the causes of "expensive dental care", public opinion has been accustomed to blame it on the high "cost". The most typical example is that clinical dental implants have been monopolized by foreign brands for a long time, and the low degree of localization has led to the front-end purchase price always at a high level. In addition, the dental medical industry, a variety of testing instruments, surgical instruments are also highly dependent on imports, which also constitutes a large part of the cost of ...... In the face of this situation, many people once again called for "Made in China when self-improvement". But the problem is that this process obviously takes time. And, based on the increasingly fine global industrial division of labor, each country has accumulated their own comparative advantages, to break through how easy it is.
It is foreseeable that the future of China's manufacturing in the field of "dental implants" in the production of sophisticated, will help reduce the cost of dental hospital supplies, and then effectively reduce the patient's medical expenses. However, this cost reduction effect, in the end can be transformed into the public's expectations of the "low price", but it is difficult to say. Because it must be clear that the dentist's fees, labor costs, is also another important factor in the "dental expensive" - not only in China, this phenomenon is common in the world.
Dentists' high fees and incomes are naturally justified. Considering the high investment in education, highly specialized professional skills, as well as the scarcity of high-quality dentists, the market to give this group of higher career returns can be said to be a matter of course - in recognition of the professional value of professional talents on the basis of the medical school seems to be the only hope that the medical school to export more talented people, dental health care market The formation of more competitive bodies to reduce the cost of this part of the labor.
It must be recognized that "expensive dental care" has its own reality. But even so, it does not mean that the industry as a whole has no room to reduce costs. It must be known that many dental clinics are still over-diagnosis and "misleading consumption" of the situation, if the regulator can carry out targeted governance, will inevitably alleviate the pressure on the public to pay; and in addition to this, the public **** health insurance can keep pace with the times to adjust the scope of coverage of the dental project, is also a worthy of serious consideration! The topic is also worthy of serious consideration.