Member Wang Meng: Pay attention to oral health I hope that more oral diagnosis and treatment projects will be included in medical insurance

Red net moment Yueyang December 31 (reporter Ye Fen) "all say 'toothache is not a disease, pain is really fatal', toothache is a big problem that plagues the Chinese people, when I was a child to see deciduous teeth, grew up to extract wisdom teeth, teeth are uneven need to be corrected, middle-aged and elderly people need to have teeth implanted, and the health problems of teeth accompany our lives." Wang Meng, a member of the Yueyang Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, brought a proposal related to people's oral health this year.

Wang Meng said that in recent years, the number of oral patients in Yueyang Has increased year by year, oral health has become a problem that cannot be ignored, while the proportion of oral medical self-payment is high, medical insurance is small, and the proportion of dental expenditure for all ages is between 75% and 90%. And there are very few medical insurance reimbursement items, only limited to filling, tooth extraction, periodontal treatment, etc., dental implants, dental restoration, orthodontics, etc. are not within the scope of medical insurance, and there are not many medical insurance reimbursement hospitals, resulting in the phenomenon of difficulty in seeing teeth and expensive teeth. Therefore, Wang Meng suggested that the government can incorporate more oral diagnosis and treatment projects into medical insurance to reduce the economic pressure on oral patients.

"Many people have little understanding of oral knowledge, feel that the teeth do not hurt do not need to see, the teeth are broken and do not go to the treatment in time, wait until they really can't stand to go to the teeth, this is because everyone knows too little about oral common sense, and the awareness of oral protection is not strong enough." In fact, all these problems can be prevented. Wang Meng said, "The fundamental way to solve the problem of dental disease lies in prevention, experts recommend that adults check their teeth once a year; children in the active period of caries occurrence and development check their teeth once every six months; women of childbearing age undergo oral treatment before pregnancy; the elderly repair their teeth in time after missing teeth." At the same time, oral treatment is because of its long treatment time and the particularity of the number of visits, and the effect cannot be immediate, which requires patients to adhere to their beliefs and complete the entire diagnosis and treatment process. ”

Wang Meng suggested that he hopes that oral health problems will receive widespread attention from the society, strengthen oral health education, popularize oral health science education, let public hospitals and private institutions participate, do a good job in popularizing science into schools, enterprises, units, communities and other publicity work, so that more people can understand oral related knowledge and improve the awareness of oral health protection, which can not only reduce oral disease patients, enhance the proportion of national health, but also reduce the pressure of medical insurance for the country and improve the overall health level of insurance personnel.