Many people are reluctant to go to the dentist, they think it’s not only a sin, but also very expensive. Today we will talk about why dental care is so expensive from an economic point of view? A toothbrush, a tube of toothpaste, a roll of dental floss, the necessary supplies for daily personal oral care, together only a few dozen dollars, morning and evening brushing, flossing every day, are used well, all positions are clean, teeth will not occur major problems. That’s cheap, right? Next, when permanent teeth are just growing out, there is a technique called fluoride coating, which is applied to the tooth surface regularly to help improve the mineralization of the teeth and increase the resistance to caries, which generally ranges from tens to hundreds of dollars depending on the region and hospital level (the same below, not to repeat). Although it is costly, this is the first opportunity to save money. Why are dental visits so expensive? There is also a chance that there is a technique called fossa closure when the tooth has just grown out and caries has not occurred, which also ranges from several tens to several hundreds of dollars, and the fossa closure can prevent the occlusal surface caries to a certain extent. Some literature shows that, even if the sulcus closure is worn out, the caries rate and degree of teeth that have had sulcus closure are still lower than those teeth that have not had sulcus closure. Well, you did not seize these two opportunities, slowly, the tooth began to decay, in the early stage of tooth decay, only need to remove the decayed part to fill the artificial material, the cost is only a few tens to a few hundred dollars. This can’t be called expensive in any case, it costs more money to have a meal in a restaurant, and you have to eat every day, a tooth filling can last at least five or six years, on average, the cost is negligible every day, it is too cheap to be cheap. If you don’t seize this opportunity, the tooth decay starts to be deeper and more tooth surface is involved, then the simple filling won’t work, you need to do the inlay to repair the bad part, the inlay needs several hundred to two or three thousand, it is a bit expensive. At this time and did not deal with the caries to the deep nerve invasion, manifested as tooth pain, this time the treatment is called root canal treatment, the modern root canal treatment technology of the back teeth usually cost about two thousand dollars, and this does not count, most of the teeth in the root canal treatment need to do a crown to protect up, is often said porcelain teeth, the porcelain teeth cheap to a few hundred dollars, expensive to seven or eight thousand dollars, this set down less than Two or three thousand, more than ten thousand, this time the average person to bear up generally more difficult. Why is it so expensive to see the teeth? Well, this time it is not properly handled, and the next tooth tissue disintegrates seriously with the progress of decay, so it can only be pulled, this step is not expensive, tooth extraction is usually very cheap, the general difficulty of two or three hundred yuan is enough, but the next is the follow-up problem: after the extraction of teeth, there are many ways to set, there are many ways to set teeth, the current better way to set teeth dental implants, generally to ten thousand yuan, this price I also feel very expensive, but there is no way, who The opportunity to have artificial remedy is already thanks to the progress of medical technology, some people want to plant a tooth but also by physical constraints can not plant it. If you say that dental implant is too expensive, I won’t set it, I’ll hold on to it. After a long time, the teeth on both sides will fall down to the place of missing teeth, and the teeth on the corresponding biting surface will be elongated, then you will find that the teeth near the missing teeth are all stuffed, and the long-term stuffing will cause the decay of other teeth, and the above cycle will start. What? You are deeply inconvenienced by missing teeth and want to set them again? Some of them can be orthodontically restored to the state of the missing tooth and then set, but of course, there is another cost for orthodontics. Some of them can’t be fixed, and you can’t spend the money even if you want to. If you continue to deteriorate, after multiple missing back teeth (most of the missing teeth start from the back teeth), you can only use the front teeth to eat, and the front teeth can’t bear the force of chewing, they are worn out and become very short, and the biting distance is lost, and joint problems occur, and it costs to see the joint disease… Periodontal point of view, the same, the annual scaling, scaling cost in 1-3 hundred, did not do, well, finally periodontal disease, bone resorption, simple scaling is not good, need periodontal scraping, have to three to five thousand into, but also not properly clean, inflammation is not controlled, have to scrape repeatedly, not moving three to five thousand, or even need periodontal surgery, bone grafting, a good several thousand… Milk teeth are even more, the original mineralization is low, compared to permanent teeth are more prone to bad, fluoride, sulcus closure is not done, and finally the milk teeth are bad, you say it’s okay, milk teeth anyway to replace, but you know, milk teeth decay directly affect the growth of permanent teeth, the most common impact is, permanent teeth grow crooked, well, this time need to do orthodontics, orthodontic costs that can be several million. Okay, you say I do not correct, I would rather crooked rather than ugly, but you think so others may not think so, because of crooked teeth, a good job turned you back, a higher platform higher annual salary, the loss of a big go; looking for an object is, because of crooked teeth by the object dislike, a good husband good daughter-in-law lost, lifelong happiness lost, this loss simply can not be measured in money… What’s more, even if the above does not happen, crooked teeth is not just a simple matter of looking good, crooked, directly caused by the susceptibility to dental caries, back to the first cycle; also susceptible to periodontal disease, to the second cycle, you will feel that their lives are tired of this broken teeth, either in the treatment of teeth, or on the way to dental treatment … Do you understand this time? Dental care is expensive, is the palliation of the disease and delay causes more serious damage to the treatment, restoration of the complexity of the climb caused by expensive, real prevention and early treatment of the cost is very low very low. The above calculation is only from the economic point of view of dental visits, not counting the cost of time to visit the dentist, not counting the pain suffered by the body, not counting the impact of bad teeth on the quality of life eating experience… So, visit your dentist regularly, go to him to give you a check-up and a look, spend a little money, save a lot of money, is the wisest way to save money.