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"One tooth equals a BMW" was once a metaphor for "expensive teeth", and the future may become history. On February 11, the State Council's new office held a regular policy briefing, for the collection of implant dental consumables, the National Medical Insurance Bureau said that it strives to launch a coalition reform of local dental implant collection in the first half of the year.
Strive to launch the alliance reform of local collection of dental implants in the first half of the year
On February 11, the State Council New Office held a regular policy briefing, for the collection of implant dental consumables, Chen Jinfu, deputy director of the National Medical Security Bureau, said that this piece is very controversial and criticized a lot. Now it seems that dental implants are an important way to repair missing teeth, and the social demand is also very large. Of course, there are also many services provided by medical institutions.
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So we think, starting from the local exploration, from the beginning of last year began to deploy, by the Sichuan organization of the interprovincial alliance, study the dental implant collection procedures, now the program is basically mature, but also widely listened to the opinions of clinical, enterprises and localities, ready to strive to launch such a local collection alliance reform in the first half of this year, in fact, it is also a layout under the leadership of the state, a collection method for exploration of dental implants.
In fact, in the future, the collection is more important than the rules, the characteristics of different bidding targets are very complex, need to meet the requirements of product quality, but also to meet the clinical needs, but also to effectively allow enterprises and patients to share the results of reform.
With a market of 160 billion yuan, can domestic products rise on the spot?
According to the "2020 China Oral Medical Industry Report" data calculation, the number of implant teeth in mainland China in 2020 is about 4.06 million, which is one of the fastest growing dental implant markets in the world, and the scale of the mainland implant dental market has reached nearly 160 billion yuan. According to China's population base and aging development level, it is conservatively estimated that China's dental implant market still has more than 10 times the growth potential.
According to the Southern Daily, at present, the domestic implant market is dominated by imported brands. Guohai Securities Research Report shows that the positioning of domestic implants is similar to that of Korean brands, but it started late, and the current market share is expected to be at 7%.
There have long been rumors about the inclusion of dental implants in the collective harvesting market. In August 2021, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, issued the "Plan on Further Clarifying the Medical Insurance Calendar Year Account Payment Dental Implant Project" (Draft for Comments), which mentioned the proposed adjustment of the overall medical insurance payment standard for oral implant projects, triggering a discussion about the dental implant will enter the collection.
On November 17, 2021, the Sichuan Pharmaceutical Equipment Bidding and Procurement Service Center issued the Notice on Carrying Out Information Collection of Some Oral High-value Medical Consumables Products. Since then, Zhejiang, Ningxia and other places have also issued similar notices to fill in the historical procurement data of oral medical consumables.
"The inclusion of collective harvesting is definitely good for domestic implant brands." Ou Yao believes that at present, dental implants in public hospitals are still dominated by imported brands, and if domestic dental implants can be used in public hospitals after collection, it will be conducive to accelerating the localization of dental implant materials.
Ou Yao pointed out that the current position of the domestic implant dental industry is embarrassing, before there are mature European and American imported high-end brands basically monopolize the market, and then there are Korean low-end import brands competing for living space at low prices. "At present, there are at least a dozen domestic dental implant brands, but it has been difficult to break the market pattern."
Qiao Yubai, chairman of Zhuhai Qiaodan Technology Co., Ltd., believes that the willingness of imported brands that have occupied a large share of the market to participate in the collection may not be large, and Korean implants and domestic brands are more likely to open up the market through collection. However, domestic brands that purely imitate foreign technology do not have market competitiveness, and domestic implants must achieve "curve overtaking" and must achieve technological innovation in order to gain a place in the market.
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