The world’s most prevalent disease “Caries”: Current situation and ideal way of dental care in Japan

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  • AIDA Jun
    Department of International anad Community Oral Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry

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  • 世界で最も多い疾患「う蝕」：日本での現状と歯科医療のあり方
  • セカイ デ モットモ オオイ シッカン 「 ウショク 」 : ニホン デ ノ ゲンジョウ ト シカ イリョウ ノ アリカタ

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Caries (untreated teeth) is the most prevalent disease in the world. In Japan, more than 30% of the population is affected. In addition, as the loss of teeth decreases, the number of elderly patients has been remarkably increasing. However, the high prevalence of dental caries is not fully recognized due to decrease in caries in children. The trend of dental visits, which was previously considered as “drilling teeth in early childhood, losing teeth in middle-age and older age, and not seeing in older age”, is now “caries prevented in early life, and dental visits continued in older age. The track has changed. This change has created a gap between the reality and the health insurance system. For this reason, it has become a requirement of the time to include the evaluation of prevention in universal health insurance and to place regular checkups in the medical fee chart. In order to realize dental care that reduces the number of treatment visits and shifts to increment of regular dental check-ups, there is a need to reform the awareness of those involved in governments, research, education, and clinical practice.

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