Cabinet okays free dental implants for low-income earners

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Cabinet okays free dental implants for low-income earners

By THE NATION

 

 

The Cabinet has approved a scheme to provide 4,000 free dental implants to low-income earners.

 

The scheme was proposed by Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, government deputy spokeswoman Ratchada Thanadirek said on Tuesday (January 2).

 

“The normal price of dental implant service is around Bt50,000-Bt100,000 per tooth. As a result many low-income earners are unable to afford the service,” she said.

 

Interested people must register with the Thailand Centre of Excellence for Life Sciences (Public Organisation) via the website http://www.tcels.or.th, she said.

 

“The dental implant service will be provided at 36 hospitals nationwide,” she added. “The centre also will hand out 10,000 coupons to diabetic patients for free treatment of chronic wounds at 14 hospitals nationwide through registration at the same website. Both programmes will start on January 6 and end on February 2020.”

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30380081

 

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[sammieuk1]

Generosity knows no bounds here 4000 molars up for grabs and 10,000 chronic wounds treated for free until February amazing LOS????

[edwinchester]

So in a country of 30,000,000 on low income there will be 4000 free implants available.

 

[Grumpy John]

1 hour ago, edwinchester said:

So in a country of 30,000,000 on low income there will be 4000 free implants available.

 

Their generosity knows no bounds.....and there are 4000 free implants as well!

[Bruntoid]

1 hour ago, edwinchester said:

So in a country of 30,000,000 on low income there will be 4000 free implants available.

 

and do all 30,000,000 need implants ?? ????

[jerojero]

2 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Generosity knows no bounds here 4000 molars up for grabs and 10,000 chronic wounds treated for free until February amazing LOS????

Exactly, when there likely are hundreds of thousands in need of these sevices. 

[monkfish]

Hopefully this will work out better than the Farmland for the Poor project did.

[sawadee1947]

Good idea, but they should also give black color to dye hair. ????

[DPKANKAN]

4 hours ago, Bruntoid said:

and do all 30,000,000 need implants ?? ????

Only brain cell implants!!!! ????????????????????????

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

“The normal price of dental implant service is around Bt50,000-Bt100,000 per tooth. As a result many low-income earners are unable to afford the service,” she said.

That explains a lot... 

[Scot123]

Well that's the generals all will lovely new in plants (coincidently aren't there over 3,000 Generals?). 

[edwinchester]

10 hours ago, Bruntoid said:

and do all 30,000,000 need implants ?? ????

No idea but suppose that only 1% need one, that is 300,000 implants.

[Chelseafan]

On 1/3/2020 at 3:51 AM, Grumpy John said:

Their generosity knows no bounds.....and there are 4000 free implants as well!

If each person needs 10 implants then it could only reach 400 people, unlikely I know.

[tlandtday]

Sounds a lot like the 1000 baht shopping initiative which excluded 10 times more people that tried to get in on the internet site that was always down or not connecting... wonder what was actually going on with that one... this govt is becoming a real joke and not a funny nor fun one...

[Chazar]

Having implants is  not always straight forwards  especially  in the  upper  jaw due to  bone  loss needing sinus  lifts which aint gonna  be  cheap.

[Chazar]

4 hours ago, Chelseafan said:

If each person needs 10 implants then it could only reach 400 people, unlikely I know.

They generally dont do that they may  put  in  4 up and down and the rest would  be  attached to them as  false  teeth

[RJRS1301]

I hope that complete assessment of  bone density, dental hygiene and nutrition are under taken and dnetal hygiene education are part of the plan.

With the poor dental care I have seen in so many, especially in rural areas, the number appears to be very small, but it is a start I guess.