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Same-day crowns and same-day dentures in 12 Asia-Pacific and Gulf markets: what clinic websites advertise, and what official data shows
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Published · Updated
No public source in any of the 12 markets states what share of dental clinics offers same-day crowns or same-day dentures. We sampled 150 clinics at random in each of Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia and read their websites.
AI-assisted: written with an AI desk and credited to the editorial team. Approved for publication. See editorial policy.
Countries: Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar
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Dental Market Radar Editorial Team. (2026). Same-day crowns and same-day dentures in 12 Asia-Pacific and Gulf markets: what clinic websites advertise, and what official data shows. Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/briefs/same-day-crowns-and-dentures-12-markets/
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Key points
- No public source in any of the 12 markets states what share of dental clinics offers same-day crowns or same-day dentures. We sampled 150 clinics at random in each of Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia and read their websites.
- Same-day crowns, advertised: Japan 4.0% of sampled clinics (95% CI 1.8–8.5%), Taiwan 0.7% (0.1–3.7%), Malaysia 2.0% (0.7–5.7%; Malaysian private clinics registered as of 2022).
- Same-day dentures, advertised: 0 of 150 sampled clinics in each of Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia (95% CI 0–2.5%). Clinic sites that say 'same-day denture' mostly mean immediate dentures, same-day repairs or, in Taiwan, fixed crowns.
- Japan, equipped: 5,164 of 66,818 dental clinics (7.7%) owned a dental CAD/CAM device in 2023 (MHLW). The survey does not say whether the device is chairside.
- Japan, delivered: 773,562 insured denture repairs were returned the same day in FY2024, 12.1% of 6,404,936 repairs (NDB). No claim code exists for a same-day new denture.
More findings
- Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar: no clinic-level number exists; New Zealand and Saudi Arabia have dentist-level surveys only.
TL;DR
- Nobody publishes how many dental clinics offer same-day crowns or same-day dentures, in any of the 12 markets. Searches in English and local languages return clinic adverts, tourism directories and market-research teasers. Clinic websites in Japan quote chairside CAD/CAM adoption figures between about 1% and 4% of clinics, without a source and in conflict with each other. [11]
- So we counted. We drew a simple random sample of 150 clinics from an official list in each of Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia, found each clinic's own website and read up to five pages of it. We coded same-day crowns and same-day dentures separately, and kept immediate dentures, same-day repairs and same-day implant teeth apart. [4][5][6][11]
- Same-day crowns (advertised): Japan 6 of 150 clinics, 4.0% (95% CI 1.8–8.5%); Taiwan 1 of 150, 0.7% (0.1–3.7%); Malaysia 3 of 150, 2.0% (0.7–5.7%), on a list of private clinics registered in 2022. [4][5][6][11]
- Same-day dentures (advertised): 0 of 150 in each of the three samples (95% CI 0–2.5%). [4][5][6][11]
- Three levels are kept apart. Advertised means a clinic's website claims it. Equipped means an installed base or a registered facility standard. Delivered means claims or procedure counts. They measure different things and are not compared as if equal.
Same-day crowns (C1)
Definition: a crown, onlay or inlay designed and milled or printed at the chair and fitted in one visit. Lab-made "fast" crowns over two or more days and temporary crowns do not count.
Advertised: clinic website sample
| Market | Sampling frame | Clinics advertising a same-day crown | Share of all 150 (95% CI) | Share of clinics with a readable own web presence (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | MHLW 医療情報ネット open data, 54,637 dental clinics (June 2026) [4][11] | 6 | 4.0% (1.8–8.5%) | 6 of 90, 6.7% (3.1–13.8%) |
| Taiwan | NHIA contracted dental clinics, 6,998 active (November 2026) [5][11] | 1 | 0.7% (0.1–3.7%) | 1 of 26, 3.8% (0.7–18.9%) |
| Malaysia | MOH list of private dental clinics registered as of 30 June 2022, 3,259 entries [6][11] | 3 | 2.0% (0.7–5.7%) | 3 of 51, 5.9% (2.0–15.9%) |
- Two bases. The first share counts every sampled clinic; clinics with no website count as not advertising. The second counts only clinics whose own site, group-site page or open social page we could read. The true share of clinics offering the service, advertised or not, is not measured here.
- Japan: all six clinics name CEREC or Primescan/Primemill. Three offer one visit as an option, on request or for a surcharge; two of them name two visits as their default. One more clinic says CEREC can make a tooth in as little as one day, without saying it is fitted the same day; it is not counted (7 of 150 if counted). [4][11]
- Malaysia: two of the three claims are on a group website, not stated for the sampled branch; counting only branch-specific claims gives 1 of 150. The figures describe private clinics on the 2022 register, not all clinics in Malaysia. [6][11]
- Chairside equipment named, with or without a same-day claim: Japan 12 of 150 (8.0%), Taiwan 2 (1.3%), Malaysia 7 (4.7%). Naming the equipment is not a same-day claim; some of these sites describe lab turnaround of a week or more. [4][5][6][11]
Equipped and delivered: official and survey data
| Market | Level | Figure | What it measures |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | Equipped | 5,164 of 66,818 dental clinics, 7.7%, owned a dental CAD/CAM device (Oct 2023) | Device ownership; the MHLW survey does not separate chairside units from in-clinic lab milling [1] |
| Japan | Equipped | 57,561 dental facilities registered for the insurance CAD/CAM crown and inlay standard (Sept–Nov 2026) | Eligibility to bill CAD/CAM crowns; a link to an outside lab qualifies, so not chairside [2] |
| Japan | Equipped | 16,653 facilities registered for optical impressions (2026) | An intraoral scanner in the clinic, not a milling unit [2] |
| Japan | Delivered | 4,558,267 insured CAD/CAM crowns in FY2024 (NDB) | CAD/CAM-made crowns, usually lab-milled; the claim does not record same-day fitting [3] |
| New Zealand | Equipped (dentists) | 39% of responding dentists used chairside restoration systems (2025 survey of registered dentists) [7]; 16.5% used a CEREC machine (2016 survey of a random sample of dentists) [8] | Dentists, not clinics; self-reported |
| Saudi Arabia | Equipped (dentists) | 27.2% of dentists in a Riyadh convenience sample reported a chairside CAD/CAM system at their workplace (2021) [9] | Dentists, not clinics; not representative |
No market publishes a chairside CAD/CAM installed base. No vendor filing we read states a number for any of the 12 markets. [11] The only installed-base figure found is global and dated: Sirona reported "over 29,000 CAD/CAM systems in dental offices worldwide" in March 2011. [10]
Same-day dentures (D1)
Definition: a removable partial or complete denture made and fitted on the same day as the impression or scan. Immediate dentures, made in advance and fitted on the day of extraction, are a different service (D2). [11]
Advertised: clinic website sample
| Market | Clinics advertising a same-day denture | Share of all 150 (95% CI) | Share of clinics with a readable own web presence (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 0 | 0.0% (0–2.5%) | 0 of 90 (0–4.1%) [4][11] |
| Taiwan | 0 | 0.0% (0–2.5%) | 0 of 26 (0–12.9%) [5][11] |
| Malaysia | 0 | 0.0% (0–2.5%) | 0 of 51 (0–7.0%) [6][11] |
What sampled clinic websites do advertise under similar words:
| Service | Japan | Taiwan | Malaysia |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immediate denture, made in advance (D2) [4][5][6][11] | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Same-day denture repair or reline (D3) [4][5][6][11] | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Same-day implant teeth, e.g. All-on-4 (I1) [4][5][6][11] | 2 | 2 | 4 |
- Taiwan wording: "一日假牙" ("one-day denture") on Taiwanese clinic sites usually means a fixed ceramic crown, not a removable denture. One sampled site uses it for a CEREC crown made within one to two days. Searches for "same-day dentures" in Taiwan therefore return crown adverts. [5][11]
- Japan, delivered: insured denture repairs returned the same day were 773,562 in FY2024, 12.1% of 6,404,936 insured denture repairs (NDB). This is the only official same-day count found for any denture service in the 12 markets. The fee schedule has no code for a new denture made and fitted the same day, so D1 cannot be counted from claims. [3]
- Japan, equipped: 6,106 dental facilities are registered for the in-house technician add-on that pays for same-day or next-day denture repairs and relines (2026). This measures repair capacity, not same-day new dentures. [2]
Market by market
| Market | Same-day crown share | Same-day denture share | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | Sampled: 0.7% | Sampled: 0% | No equipment survey or claims data found [5][11] |
| Japan | Sampled: 4.0%; 7.7% own CAD/CAM | Sampled: 0%; D3 claims only | MHLW survey, facility standards, NDB [1][2][3][4][11] |
| Korea | null | null | HIRA equipment and procedure data are blocked to crawlers (robots.txt); the API needs an account [14] |
| Singapore | null | null | No complete clinic list we may use: HealthHub's terms bar scraping; data.gov.sg holds counts only [11] |
| Malaysia | Sampled: 2.0% (2022 private register) | Sampled: 0% | MOH register has no CAD/CAM category [6][11] |
| Thailand | null | null | Clinic registry blocked (HTTP 403); licences do not record CAD/CAM [11][12] |
| Vietnam | null | null | No national clinic list; the official procedure list covers CAD/CAM only for full-arch implant prostheses [13] |
| Australia | null | null | The national services directory is frozen at 2023 and its terms bar derivative works; no Australian dentist survey found [11] |
| New Zealand | Dentist surveys only [7][8] | null | No public practice list [11] |
| Saudi Arabia | Dentist surveys only [9] | null | No public list of private clinics; open-data portals did not respond [11] |
| UAE | null | null | No public national clinic list [11] |
| Qatar | null | null | Ministry licensing page behind a bot check (not bypassed) [11] |
Method
- Frames and sampling. Simple random samples of 150 clinics (seed 20261109) from official lists: Japan, MHLW 医療情報ネット open data (54,637 dental clinics, June 2026); Taiwan, NHIA contracted dental clinics with an active contract (6,998); Malaysia, MOH list of private dental clinics registered under Act 586 as of 30 June 2022 (3,259). Singapore, Australia and Saudi Arabia were priority markets but no frame qualified. At n = 150 the margin of error is at most ±8 percentage points; the intervals above are Wilson 95% intervals. [4][5][6][11]
- Finding websites. A clinic's own domain, or its own page on a group site, counts. Directory, booking-portal and social-media pages do not. A clinic was marked "no website found" only after two logged search variants. Social pages were read only where robots.txt allowed it; Facebook, Instagram and TikTok do not, so those pages were not coded. [11]
- Search recall. We tested the search procedure on 10 clinics per market known to have a website. It found 8 of 10 in Japan, 10 of 10 in Taiwan (clinics themselves found by search, so likely optimistic) and 7 of 10 in Malaysia. "No website found" was Japan 29.3% (recall 8 of 10, at our 80% cut-off), Taiwan 66.0% and Malaysia 31.3% (recall 7 of 10, below the cut-off, so an upper bound). The share of all clinics advertising a service may be slightly understated. [11]
- Reading sites. Home page plus up to four linked pages on treatment, crowns, dentures, implants or prices; robots.txt checked before every URL; one request every 3 seconds per host; no logins, no bot walls bypassed. Only the website address, codes, a short verbatim phrase and the date were stored; no names or personal data. [11]
- Rules. A claim on a group site that is not limited to other branches counts, and is flagged. General educational text with no offer by the clinic does not count. Each code needs a verbatim phrase. [11]
- Checks. A second coder re-coded a random subsample blind: Japan 30 sites and Taiwan 26 (every coded Taiwan site) agreed on every code; in Malaysia's 30 sites every same-day crown and same-day denture code agreed, and two other calls (one immediate denture, one chairside equipment) differed and were settled by the lead under the written rules. Every same-day claim behind the shares above was re-fetched and found verbatim by the lead. [11]
What cannot be measured, and why
- Same-day services that clinics offer but do not advertise. A website sample measures claims, not practice. [11]
- Chairside CAD/CAM installed base. No regulator, association or vendor publishes it for any of the 12 markets. [11]
- Same-day new dentures from claims data. Japan's fee schedule has no such code; no other market publishes denture claims by turnaround. [3][11]
- Clinic lists we may not use, for the reasons in the market table. [11]
Gaps
- An AI-assistant probe of this question was not run; it belongs to the observatory baseline. [11]
- Malaysia's frame is from 2022; 2 of 150 sampled clinics showed evidence of closure. [6][11]
- The method, the coded samples (without clinic names), robots.txt logs and all source quotes are in the research folder (
research/t3-same-day/). [11]
AI-assisted. Prepared by the Dental Market Radar Editorial Team from public sources and a website sample read on 2026-11-09.
Data used
- Japan: Dental clinics total – 66,818 facilities as of 2023-10-01
Source links
Numbers in square brackets in the text link to this list.
- 令和5年 医療施設（静態）調査 全国編 第186表 (MHLW, e-Stat) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- 届出受理医療機関名簿（歯科）, 8 地方厚生（支）局 (example: 関東信越厚生局) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- 第11回NDBオープンデータ 歯科診療行為 (MHLW) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- 医療情報ネット オープンデータ 歯科診療所 施設票 (MHLW, 2026-06-01) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- 健保特約醫事機構-診所 (NHIA open data, data.gov.tw 39283) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- Senarai Klinik Pergigian Swasta yang berdaftar di bawah Akta 586 as of 30 Jun 2022 (MOH Malaysia) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- Key Factors Influencing the Adoption of CAD/CAM in the Fabrication of Indirect Dental Restorations (Int J Dent 2026) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- Use of newer technologies by dentists in New Zealand (NZ Dental Journal, Sept 2018) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- A Survey of Dentists' Perception of Chair-Side CAD/CAM Technology (Healthcare 2021) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- Sirona Dental Systems prospectus supplement (Form 424B3, 2011-03-11) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- Dental Market Radar Editorial Team, T3 website sample: method, coding rules, results and source notes (research file research/t3-same-day/sample/method.md, with gap-check.md and robots-check.md), 2026-11-09 (accessed 2026-11-09)
- สถิติของคลินิกทันตกรรม, data as of 28 Feb 2567 (Dental Council of Thailand) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- Hướng dẫn quy trình kỹ thuật chuyên ngành Răng hàm mặt, Quyết định 2121/QĐ-BYT, 21 May 2020 (Ministry of Health Vietnam; repost) (accessed 2026-11-09)
- HIRA 보건의료빅데이터개방시스템 진료행위 통계 (HIRA; robots.txt disallows crawlers, not fetched) (accessed 2026-11-09)