Treatment covered under Japanese medical insurance
Treatment covered under Japanese medical insurance
Disease categories covered by Japanese medical insurance for orthodontic treatment.
1) The list of diseases established by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan
- Cleft lip, alveolus, and palate
- Goldenhar syndrome (with DiGeorge syndrome)
- Cleidocranial digital dysostosis
- Crouzon syndrome
- Treacher Collins syndrome
- Pierre Robin syndrome
- Down syndrome
- Russell-Silver syndrome
- Turner syndrome
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
- Acrocephalosyndactyly
- Congenital structural myopathy
- Hemifacial hypertrophy
- Ellis-van Creveld syndrome
- Achondroplasia
- Ectodermal dysplasia
- Neurofibromatosis
- Basal cell nevus syndrome
- Noonan’s syndrome
- Marfan syndrome
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- Facial cleft
- Muscular dystrophy
- Osteopetrosis
- Incontinentia pigmenti
- Orofacial digital syndrome
- Mebius syndrome
- Kabuki syndrome
- Klippel-Tr?naunay-Weber syndrome
- Williams syndrome
- Binder syndrome
- Stickler syndrome
- Microglossia
- Craniosynostosis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Whistling face syndrome
- Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome
- Autosome deletion syndrome
- Larsen syndrome
- Pycnodysostosis
- Partial anodontia of more than 6 teeth
- CHARGE association syndrome
- Marshall syndrome
- Hypophyseal dwarfism
- Fragile X syndrome (Klinefelter's syndrome)
- Ring 18 syndrome
Total 54 syndromes as of Oct , 2018
In our clinic, orthodontic treatment of the above-mentioned syndromes is started at the age of 3 or 4 years in ‘early cases’, or 6 or 7 years in typical cases. Treatment is required until adulthood.
In the initial stages, our treatment is aimed at modifying growth between the maxilla and the mandible, and at improving sequentially abnormal dental development. After the jaw-growing phase, we align the teeth using a multi-bracket system. In cases of severe dentofacial deformity, orthognathic surgery is performed. Medical insurance is applicable in the orthodontic treatment of such patients.
2) Dentofacial deformity needing orthognathic surgery