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Features of China's dental industry

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1. High Prevalence of Dental Diseases While Low Rate of Dental Treatment in China The World Health Organization (WHO) lists dental health as one of the top ten criteria for human health. For a long time, the prevalence of dental diseases in China has been very high, and almost everyone has different degrees of dental disease problems, but on the contrary, the dental treatment rate is very low, especially China's children, while the elderly have a very high rate of dental caries.     The rate of permanent dental caries among 12-year-olds is 34.5%, 7.8% higher than a decade ago. The rate of deciduous tooth caries among 5-year-olds is 70.9%, 5.8% higher than a decade ago. The situation of children's caries has shown an upward trend.   Among residents aged 35-44 years, the detection rate of oral calculus is 96.7%, and the detection rate of gingival bleeding is 87.4%, which increases by 10.1%, compared with that of 10 years ago. In sharp contrast to the high prevalence rate, the cur

The Development Status of China's Dental Industry

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    With the development of China's economy and the improvement of people's health awareness, the demand for oral medical services is increasing rapidly. In recent years, with the continuous publicity of oral health, the oral health awareness of domestic residents is gradually enhanced. According to the results of the 4th national epidemiological survey of oral health, the awareness rate of oral health of the entire population is 60.1%, and 84.9% of the Chinese people have a positive attitude towards oral health care. In addition, since the implement of Reform and Opening Up Policy 40 years ago, China's national economy has continued to grow rapidly, which has provided a better economic foundation for the development of the dental industry.   At the same time, the state government allows the oral health care institutions to introduce diversified main bodies. After the related policies were issued, the structure of oral health institutions diversifies from single public owne

Main Business of Dental Medical Institutions

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 In China, the main business of oral medical institutions includes oral surgery (like tooth extraction, dental implants, etc.), oral medicine (like Chen disease, periodontal disease, etc.), oral repair (like casting metal full crown, PFM crown, etc.), orthodontics (for all kinds of irregular teeth), teeth whitening (ultrasonic cleaning, physical whitening, etc.).  Meanwhile, related dental products and dental supplies need to be used during dental treatment in the dental institutions, like Mixing Accessories (Micro Applicator, Mixing Spatula, Mixing Ring, Plastic Dappen, Mixing Well, Mixing Bowl), Endodontics (Endo Measuring Block, Square Endo Holder, Round Endo Stand, Endo Ring Holder, Endo Dispenser, Measuring Ruler, Measuring Ring), etc. 

Business Types of Dental Industry in China

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At present, there are three business models in China's dental service industry: The first type refers to the mainstream, including large and medium-sized non-profit hospitals; The second type refers to the individual dental clinic, which has a large number of clinics. The third type refers to dental chain clinics with famous brand.   The first type of large and medium-sized public hospitals occupies an absolute advantage in the scope of public medical insurance, but is limited by the present Chinese medical system. With a low degree of marketization, it develops slowly in China. The second type of individual dental clinics mainly focuses on the low end of the dental market. The third kind of dental medical chain institutes can not only build the trust of patients to doctors, but also provide opportunities for the establishment of new brands and even large-scale operation.     From the perspective of market regional distribution, the main market of Chinese dentistry mainly exists in

In-depth Understanding of the Market Status of China's Dental Industry

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 The oral medical industry refers to a medical industry chain which is based on the consumption of oral medical services and integrates the oral medical services, professional dental education and training, research and development and production of oral medical devices, market planning, publicity, investment, operation and management.  At present, the main bodies engaged in oral medical services in China includes: stomatology department of general hospital, specialist stomatology hospital, chain dental clinic, individual dental clinic, etc.   In accordance with the published data, the number of person-time for oral treatment in China is about 250 million every year, which is a super big market with a large population. With the rising of overall consumption of urban residents in China, as a basic popular medical project of public medical health, the consumption potential of dentistry remains to be tapped.  Obviously, on this order of magnitude, there is no doubt that it will be a super

Shortage of Dental Professionals in China

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  The demand of Chinese stomatology professionals is strong, while there is still a huge gap between China and developed countries. With the continuous expansion of the market scale of China's dental industry, some potential problems are gradually exposed, one of which is the shortage of dental professionals in China, which is far from meeting the growing market demand. In recent years, under the promotion of the national practice policies and the reform of doctor training system, the shortage of dental professionals has been improved. From 2014 to 2017, the number of dental professionals in China has increased yearly.   In 2017, the number of licensed dentists in China was 152,000, and the number of licensed assistant dentists was 37,000, totaling 188,000.  However, compared with the huge market demand of over 700 specialized oral hospitals and more than 80,000 private oral treatment institutions, the number of present dental professionals is far from enough. Compared w

Mature USA Dental Market and Immature Chinese Dental Market

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 With the development of China's economy and the improvement of Chinese people's living standard in recent years, the public pays much more attention to oral health now. The demand for oral treatment changes from the basic pathophysiological demand to the level of psychological demand. In accordance with relevant reports in dentistry, it shows that the developing speed of the oral care market is twice as fast as the growth rate of GDP. The Chinese oral care market is growing rapidly with excellent expectations. From the report on Dental Business between USA and China released by the US consulate, we can also see that China's dental industry has a huge development potential and a considerable market capacity.  At the same time, the development of the dental industry is not that mature, and the allocation of dental medical resources is very uneven. There's an obvious market gap between China and the United States and other developed countries. For example, dental instrum

With the intensified situation of population aging and the increase of people’s income in recent years, how big will the denture market be?

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 With the increase of people's disposable income and improvement of people's living standard, people pay more attention to oral health and the demand for cosmetic dentistry like teeth whitening increases, too. Moreover, as the number of aging population is getting bigger and bigger, the global demand for dentures also increases. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the proportion of the global population aged 65 and over has been increasing continuously. The proportion of population aged 65 and over of the European Union has increased from 15.72% in 2000 to 19.36% in 2018. The proportion of population aged 65 and over of the USA has increased from 12.33% in 2000 to 15.81% in 2018. The proportion of population aged 65 and over of China has increased from 6.82% in 2000 to 10.92% in 2018.   With the increase of global aging population and per capita income, as well as the enhancement of awareness of tooth health, the growth rate of denture industry should be higher than that o