Tell me about expensive teeth.

Seeing this title, many friends must be eager to come in and leave messages for Dr. Zhu. "Yes, your dentistry is a huge profit." "It's really too expensive to see a dentist." ......

Yes, yes, everyone is right. Dentistry is not cheap, but there are reasons.

Two days ago, Dr. Zhu's old classmate complained that he broke two teeth when he was visiting the dentist in his hometown. He ran back and forth to seventy or eighty dental clinics, and it took him three months to decide which one to do. The reason is: every one is expensive! Finally, it took 23.3 months' salary to cure two teeth. Do you find it irritating?

Then he asked me how much it would cost if I saw it in your hospital. I said, I can give you some discount on the friendship price, but it won't be much cheaper.

Dr. Zhu first analyzes the cost of our dental surgery, which should be divided into explicit cost and invisible cost.

The obvious cost is obvious to everyone-dental consumables and tools. At present, most dental materials are imported. Tens of thousands of dental chairs are needed for dental care, not to mention CT scanning, tens of millions and millions of machines for processing dental crowns. However, the price of bone powder filled with dental implants is comparable to that of gold, and dentistry cannot do business at a loss. For the same tooth extraction, you can lie on a professional dental chair or sit at a roadside stall to pull it out, but the cost of the roadside stall is much lower, so the price is also low.

Because oral medical treatment in our country started relatively late, most of these equipment and consumables are imported from abroad. Is it expensive?

Dental implants are the most expensive one. Implants are basically monopolized by brands in Switzerland, Germany and South Korea, and the cost is tens of thousands. The most expensive Swiss dental implants can even reach 80 thousand yuan, 80 thousand yuan, almost enough to buy a car.

So it is expensive to see a dentist, but if the profit is really high, it is actually no higher than seeing other diseases.

These are all the costs we can see. In our country, people's health awareness is still very high, and they often go to hospitals. However, few people can plan ahead in dentistry, and the concept of dental health care is not prominent, so there are few dentists. In China, the ratio of dentists to patients is almost 40000:1; In Japan, the ratio is 1300: 1. There are few dentists, many of them are small clinics on the street and stray doctors on the roadside. There are fewer dentists who can take risks and technical difficulties, so the price will not be low, and things are rare.

However, even in foreign countries with a strong sense of oral care, dental care is not expensive. Everyone should have heard that in Italy, it costs about 25,000-32,000 to plant a tooth, and in Europe, the average cost of a tooth is 20,000-30,000. If you can't pay in one lump sum, you can take out a mortgage. In Israel, the cost of dental care can reach 6.5438+0.6 million, which can cure a serious illness in China.

It is precisely because dental care is expensive that many Europeans attach great importance to their teeth.

So everyone says that dental care is expensive, and Dr. Zhu understands it very well. Not only in China, but also abroad, many costs of dental care cannot be covered by medical insurance, so it is very expensive! How expensive! How expensive!

As a doctor, my mood is also complicated. To be honest, dentists are not as black as everyone thinks. We are all human beings. We all feel uncomfortable when we see patients who are troubled by dental problems and patients whose teeth have fallen out but can't afford to grow. But as a job, we certainly hope to have a steady stream of patients. Therefore, Lao Zhu Jing often gives you some simple tips on dental care in previous articles. If we can do this every day, we can save a lot of money for dental care.

Today I want to reiterate to you:

1. Brush your teeth at least twice a day, especially before going to bed at night. No matter how late you eat supper and work overtime, you must get into the habit of brushing your teeth before going to bed at night.

Don't brush your teeth immediately after meals. It's best to brush for about half an hour. If it is not convenient to brush your teeth at lunch, you can rinse your mouth instead.

3, to develop the habit of using dental floss, so as to keep the mouth clean, dental floss is very cheap, but it can bring great help to our teeth. Compared with dental floss, toothpicks are not so clean, and may poke the gums and make the teeth bigger. It is recommended to use less.

4. Wash your teeth regularly. Many people think that tooth cleaning will loosen teeth, but it is not. It's just that your teeth are usually wrapped in calculus. After tooth washing, the calculus is removed, and naturally there will be cracks and looseness, but it will be fine in two or three days. Everyone has calculus. What do you think of dental calculus? Don't look outside the teeth, look inside the teeth in the mirror. If the calculus is not cleaned for a long time, it will not only lead to periodontal disease, but also lead to gingival atrophy, so wash your teeth regularly.

5. Get into the habit of gnashing your teeth. To knock your teeth is to gently bite your upper and lower teeth. Tapping teeth can not only maintain our teeth, but also promote blood circulation in the face, which has many benefits.

I hope everyone will start with their usual love and care for their teeth, and don't let their hard-earned money be spent on dentists!