While more than 60% of dental clinics engage in home-visit dental treatment, less than half provide additional cooperation to the nursing care facilities they visit.
*Dental Support Co., Ltd.*
Press release: September 5, 2024
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While more than 60% of dental clinics engage in home-visit dental treatment, less than half provide additional cooperation to the nursing care facilities they visit.
*[Awareness survey regarding home-visit dental treatment [for dentists]]* Dental Support Co., Ltd. (Head office: Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Representative Director: Kusabuka) of DS Healthcare Group
(Representative/CEO: Ikuo Kantake)
Takeishi) conducted an “Awareness Survey on Visiting Dental Treatments” among dentists who are registered members of “1D”, Japan’s largest dental media.
* ■Summary of survey results*
1) Implementation status of visiting dental treatment
・More than 60% of dental clinics provide home-visit dental treatment, and the doctors in charge are often directors or directors.
– Most of the visiting members are dentists and dental hygienists. ・Approximately 30% of dental clinics are visited by dental hygienists only for oral care
– Approximately 60% of dental clinics do not provide additional assistance to the facilities they visit.
2) The challenges I feel in implementing home-visit dental treatment are the preparation of equipment and systems.
3) Approximately 80% of dentists feel that “home-visit dental care will continue to grow” and has a promising future.
* ■Survey details*
Period: May 30, 2024 – June 30, 2024
Target: Japan’s largest collection of information for dentists, dental hygienists, dental technicians, and dental assistants.
Dentists who are registered members of the specialized media “1D” Valid answers: 419 people
Survey method: WEB survey
* [Survey items] *
*Implementation status of visiting dental treatment*
Actual situation of visiting dental treatment as a clinic
-Member composition at the time of visit
-Doctor in charge of visiting dental treatment
-Is a dental hygienist visiting for oral care only?
-Current status of additional cooperation for visited facilities -What equipment do you prepare? – Equipment to bring depending on the number of days of implementation
-Things that were difficult when starting
*Challenges in implementing home-visit dental treatment*
Clinics offering visiting dentistry
-Current issues
-Are you satisfied with the implementation status?
Clinics that do not provide home-visit dental treatment
-Do you want to start a visiting dental clinic?
-Under what conditions would you like to start?
-Questions and concerns about getting started
* Approach to visiting dental treatment *
Amount of enthusiasm (level of interest) for visiting dental treatment How do we think about the future?
What you want to learn at a study session on visiting dentistry
* [Implementation status of visiting dental treatment as a clinic] * ・More than 60% of dental clinics offer home-visit dental treatment ・46.8% of dental clinics conduct this at least once a month
* [About additional cooperation for visited facilities] *
* [About the current implementation status of visiting dental treatment] * * [Awareness of dental clinics that do not provide home-visit dental treatment] *
・More than 60% of dental clinics are not considering starting a new visiting dental clinic.
・The condition for wanting to start is “if it will be beneficial for management” * [Thoughts on visiting dental treatment] *
* [Future potential of visiting dentistry]*
Click here for the full survey results *To download the full text, you need to register (free of charge) as a member of Japan’s largest specialized media “1D”.
* ■Dental Support Co., Ltd. [25th anniversary] Company profile* Operates visiting dental treatment support, dental technology, regenerative medicine related business, nursing care business, etc. We provide visiting dental treatment support nationwide from Hokkaido to Kyushu. We conduct educational activities and disseminate information, making full use of our track record of supporting the medical treatment of approximately 30,000 patients per month. As part of the DS Healthcare Group’s overseas expansion, we opened SAKURA, a medical and dental clinic in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Established “Medical and Dental Clinic”. In December 2015, we established DS SAKURA, a subsidiary that provides dental technology services in Myanmar.
Dental Services” was established. We are active mainly in Asia and the Middle East.
Head office location: 17th floor, Makuhari Techno Garden Building D, 1-3 Nakase, Mihama-ku, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture
Established: May 30, 1989 (Heisei 1)
Capital: 100 million yen
Representative: Representative Director Takeishi Kusabuka
Homepage: https://www.dentalsupport.co.jp/
Service site: https://dentalsupport.biz/