The cost of dental porcelain veneers is five times the cost. Dental office it really profitable? "In the current market, it costs between $3,000 and $5,000 to make a full ceramic veneer for one tooth. If you have 16 teeth up and down, the charge would be $50,000 to $80,000. Of that , the material cost is only one-fifth." ?
With the growing acceptance of "mini-plastic surgery" programs in the country, dental porcelain veneers have become a new favorite among cosmetic enthusiasts: they take only a few days and require no grinding, anesthesia, or anesthesia. To prepare the teeth, you can make the teeth neat and even, as beautiful and charming as the stars. The famous movie star Liu Xiaoqing is a fan of the program. Her mouth full of "white teeth" cost nearly 300,000 yuan. In the industry, it costs more than 200,000 yuan if you find a customized senior dentist.
Behind the high spending doesn't mean that there is also such a high cost: Sun Guangfeng told reporters that, at present, all-porcelain veneers cost about 3,000 yuan, only 600 to 700 yuan, which is the cost. one-fifth. "There are even dental clinics in China that specialize in dental porcelain veneers. As far as I know, the most profitable clinics can make hundreds of millions of dollars a year." Sun Guangfeng told reporters that dental porcelain veneers are one of the most popular "items" in dental clinics, which have a lot of demand and are not technically difficult.
The latest 3D all-ceramic veneers, for example, can be made in two days by purchasing a model-making machine costing between 300,000 yuan and 400,000 yuan, which can make a dental veneer every 15 minutes. Dental beauty is "finished". In the traditional consumer's mind, dental programs are typically a profitable industry. However, a reporter from China Business News learned that the dental industry seems to be very lucrative, but it may not end up in the pockets of clinic owners.
"The huge profits in the dental market are not huge profits in one segment, but are intertwined." Han Liang, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Dental Association, told reporters that the huge profits in the dental market do not come from market supply and demand, but from the procurement system. It is pushed up by so-called competitive bidding and circulation links. Since services and technologies are not reflected in prices, they have no choice but to reflect them in the prices of medical equipment and drugs, which only makes the end result more and more expensive.
Of these links, the most "expensive" link for a dental office may be the dentist. Due to the unequal demand for physician resources in the current dental market, private dental clinics have only been able to attract physicians from public hospitals to work part-time or jump ship through high salaries and commissions. It is understood that in the current dental market, the commission for a dental porcelain veneer doctor may be as high as 20?30 percent, and the commission for a top doctor may even be as high as 50 percent, and this does not include the cost of an ordinary visit.The next step is to buy clinic equipment. Some industry insiders have told reporters that the actual factory price is not outrageous - an investment in gums, for example - but the price can double when sold on the market, and that cost is naturally passed on to the consumer.
Besides these visible links, there is also the "gray paycheck" of the clinic's credentials management, i.e., the clinic's certificates to deal with: occupational health licenses, industrial and commercial certificates and tax certificates , all of which are essential. Of these, the most difficult to obtain is the Occupational Health License. A medical device license can only be issued with the approval of the Health Authority's medical and health institutions. Under normal circumstances, the time taken to obtain these certificates may be as little as a few months or as long as six months. If a clinic owner wishes to obtain these certificates within a short period of time, he must engage in "public relations spending" with the relevant authorities.