Features of China's dental industry
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 prevalen...