1999 Volume 5 Pages 31-47
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) is now investigating a drastic improvement of the evaluation on medical expenses in year 2000, such as a doctor's bill, a system of drug price and so on.
It will be important in dental care to make technology assessment on prosthodontic treatment as main dental technique from a new point of view.
We attempt to analyze dental care system from medical economic view using Survey of Dental Disease by MHW and Survey of National Medical Care Insurance Services in 1993 in order to find essence of technology assessment on prosthodontic treatment technique in Japan.
As a result, we found that many fixed and removal dentures were frequently made again as both type of denture were not maintained long term.
It is suggested that this fact causes the increment of national expense.
Then, it thought that the evaluation much regarding long term maintenance and management, which have been a blind spot of evaluation on dental skill, becomes important when the health insurance system of fee is drastically reformed.
