Medical Fees for Prosthetic Treatment

Abstract

The practicing dentist faces a large number of difficulties in operating his clinic today. In particular, economic constraints have become quite serious, and are causing considerable difficulties in clinical operations.
This deterioration in the operating environment has its origin in the fact that the remuneration for medical treatment is being carried out as a controlled economy in a capitalist economic system. Although it is only common sense that necessary operating expenses be covered by income, this fact has not been acknowledged in the medical community.
Although the Ministry of Health and Welfare has detrmined that dentists are receiving adequate compensation based on their surveys of medical practice operations, there is no surplus to permit a reliable profit while including necessary expenses for the dentists who is burdened with daily clinical practice and the acquisition of rapidly progressing knowledge in the field of dentistry.
As practicing dentists, we must publicize our actual operating conditions by carrying out cost calculations based on accurate data, and endeavor to obtain appropriate remuneration. In this discussion I would like to clarify this situation from this point of view, by carrying out cost calculations for an actual clinical case.