[Epoch Times, February 14, 2022]In mainland China, a tooth implant costs about 10,000 yuan, which is a huge expense for working-class people. The dilemma of “heartache”, and some industry sources revealed that in the entire process of dental implants, the cost of implants only accounted for 10% of the total.
According to a report by Tencent News “Prism” on February 14, dental implants are comfortable and beautiful, closer to natural teeth, do not damage normal teeth, and have a longer life cycle, so they are popular. Matching it, it also costs more.
Bai Tingting (pseudonym), a dentist from the stomatology department of a well-known tertiary hospital in Beijing, revealed to the media that the current market cost of implanting a single tooth ranges from several thousand yuan (RMB, the same below) to nearly 30,000 yuan. Even in the most remote border town, the total cost of planting a tooth would cost seven or eight thousand yuan. “This is the cheapest price.”
Bai Tingting said that if the patient’s situation is more complicated, it will cost 200,000 to 300,000 to have a dental procedure done in the most well-known hospital in the country, such as Peking University. “A car just ran in.”
The report stated that the dental implant system consists of an implant, an implant abutment and a crown. Among them, the implant as the core material determines the final price of a tooth.
Li Yanqi, director of the Department of Stomatology at Zong Renqing Memorial Hospital, revealed that from the perspective of the terminal consumer price, the price of optical implants can account for 70%. It only accounts for 10% to 20%, and the cost of other consumables accounts for about 10% to 20%. The rest are technical costs, of which the technical cost of the implant doctor will account for about 30% to 40%.
A survey data from Guohai Securities also shows that the purchase price of implants only accounts for about one-tenth of the cost of dental implants. In the consumer terminal 5,000 to 10,000 yuan of Korean brands, the purchase price of the dental hospital is 500 to 800 yuan.
The report said that in the dental implant market, the market share of Chinese implant brands is too low, and has not even entered the stomatology department of some well-known public hospitals.
Bai Tingting told reporters that in the field of implants, “European and American brands – Korean brands – domestic brands” is a strict “chain of contempt”, and imported brands have accounted for more than 90% of the Chinese implant market. The price difference between European and American brands and Korean brands is 1.5 times to 2 times.
Bai Tingting said: “At present, domestic products are not very easy to use except that they are cheap.”
It seems that it is very difficult to realize the import substitution of local products in the implant field. Li Yanqi believes that Korean brands have made their prices low enough, and domestic brands can reach the basic technical threshold, and the price will not be much lower. As a brand new brand, if there is no special case basis, no special technology and performance, “it is still a bit difficult to break through”.
Miao Zhixu, the chief physician of the Department of Stomatology of Chongqing Huamei Plastic Surgery Hospital, said that the proportion of European and American implants in his hospital is one-third, but it contributes two-thirds of the income, and the remaining two-thirds are Korean implants. Implants are “basically not used in domestic production”.
After the news was released, it caused widespread discussion among netizens.
Netizen “GQH” said: “The cost of implants is only 10%, which is definitely a huge profit. I have said here before that there will be no rich people in the world if they do not get rich in the business of dentists and glasses. Therefore, for dentists and glasses, there will be no rich people in the world. The profit of the industry should be controlled in addition to costs and other expenses, and its profit should be below 20%, and its dental patients can go to the doctor to get their teeth satisfactorily.”
Netizen “2efht3w” said: “Just look at the dental clinics that are blooming everywhere, and capital seeking profit can best reflect the problem.”
“sunshine” said: “It is not the tooth that is expensive. The tooth is made in a processing factory. What is expensive is the fee of the clinic.”
Responsible editor: Liu Yi#