Why do you always feel that dental care is expensive because you are late! Many people are reluctant to go to the dentist because they feel that it’s not only a pain, 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 the permanent teeth just grow out, there is a technique called fluoride coating, which is applied to the surface of the teeth regularly to help improve the mineralization of the teeth and improve the ability to resist caries, depending on the region and the level of the hospital (the same below, not to repeat) generally dozens to hundreds of dollars. Although it is costly, this is the first opportunity to save money. 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 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’s 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. Okay, this time again did not get proper treatment, the next tooth tissue with the progress of decay disintegration serious, 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, set the teeth, the current better way to set dental implants, generally want to ten thousand yuan, this price I also feel very expensive, but can not help, 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 the implant is too expensive, I won’t set it, I’ll hold on, after a long time, the teeth on both sides will fall down to the missing teeth, and the teeth on the corresponding biting surface will elongate, then you will find that the teeth near the missing teeth are all stuffed, and the long-term stuffed teeth will cause the decay of other teeth, and the above cycle will start, then the treatment cost is not the problem of one tooth, but the number of bad teeth, which is more expensive. What? You are deeply inconvenienced by missing teeth and want to set them again? Some of them can be orthodontically restored to the state they were in when the tooth was first missing, 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 the situation continues to deteriorate, after several 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 not withstand the force of chewing, and they are worn out and become very short, and the biting distance is lost, and the 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 likely to be bad, fluoride, sulcus closure is not done, and finally the milk teeth are bad, you say it’s okay, milk teeth have to be replaced anyway, but you know, milk teeth decay directly affect the growth of permanent teeth, the most common effect is that the permanent teeth grow crooked, well, this time need to do orthodontics, the cost of orthodontics that is 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 is big; looking for a date is more, 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 you are tired of this broken teeth for life, either in the treatment of teeth, or on the way to dental treatment … Now you get it, right? Dental care is expensive, is the palliation of the disease and the delay causes more serious damage to the treatment, the complexity of the restoration of the climb caused by expensive, real prevention and early treatment of the cost is very low very low.