Why are dental services so expensive? What is the situation with dentists in other countries?

What do you mean dear? Caries treatment on average 4000r. Professional hygiene - 3000 rub. If you have healed caries, this will last for at least 3-5 years. You brush your teeth once a year. For example, the services of a good hairdresser and stylist - 5000 rubles, women do it every 3-4 months. Manicure services - 2000 rubles every 2 months, auto service 5000 rubles every three months. This is about Moscow .......... If you have large decay of your teeth, it is only because you put it off for later, and then it always comes out more expensive. It is not for nothing that they say that a miser pays twice, a fool three times, and a person who does not want to study pays constantly. Go to the dentist on time, regularly and efficiently take care of your teeth and it will cost you very inexpensively. In other countries, the cost of dental services is much higher. Foreigners came to us for treatment from Germany, Belgium, Japan.

In principle, medicine is expensive today in all countries. Our general medicine is mostly subsidized by the state. But in dentistry, this is not very noticeable, since most dental clinics in large cities, including Moscow, are private.

There are several reasons for the high cost of a good dentist. The main most expensive item is staff salaries. To become a good doctor, you need to study a lot, and not only at the institute, but also in various advanced training courses, often from foreign specialists. This training can cost thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. For a doctor to be able to afford this opportunity to constantly improve, he must have an appropriate salary. In addition, the staff of the clinic is not only dentists of various profiles, but also assistants, nurses, nurses, radiologists, administrators, coordinators and specialists of other professions.

The second reason for the high cost of dental services is consumables. Quality materials, especially imported ones, are expensive. As for other cost items, contrary to popular belief that rent is very expensive in Moscow, this item affects the total cost of dental clinic services much less than the salary of staff and the cost of consumables.

In developed Western countries, and, as our analysis shows, recently in the countries of the East - China, Thailand - the cost of dental treatment is two to three times higher than in Russia. For example, in a good foreign clinic, one turnkey implant costs about three to four thousand dollars, treatment with braces can cost about 5-6 thousand euros. Another thing is that insurance medicine is developed in most of these countries, and many dental procedures are carried out at the expense of insurance.

Dental services in countries poorer than Russia are likely to be cheaper. However, according to our own experience, their quality does not always correspond to modern standards, and teeth often have to be retreated, which is much more difficult and costly.

Marketing. There is no need to take my answer as grumbling, but in the days of the scoop in honeys, dentists were taught either by outright pull or by absolutely unsuitable guys in other directions, since this is one of the simplest medical professions (it was not for nothing that barber was engaged in teeth in the days of tsarist Russia). The materials, too, if you really study this issue, are not so expensive.

The thing is that a person's teeth are the same and dentists realized this in time. Unjustified megasuperuper toothpaste compositions, rinsing, flossing, expensive toothbrushes (which, in principle, are not needed for teeth, but for gums) and the rest of the "mouth pribluda" - all this is very cynical marketing. And abroad the situation is the same. It's just that dentistry, like cosmetic surgery, fights first of all, not for health, but for beauty. And beauty is now, oh, how expensive it is.

Because stomat is expensive. materials, tools and equipment. You can get free or low-cost dental care, for example, in the state. clinic, but materials, etc. will be appropriate in this case