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Dental practices have more marketing options than ever, but that hasn’t made filling the schedule any easier. Patient acquisition costs keep climbing, and the way patients find a dentist is shifting. That shift is changing where marketing dollars pay off.…
The U.S. now has 8,033 dental professional shortage areas, according to the latest data from the Health Resources and Services Administration. The HRSA updates its dashboard showing data on health workforce shortage areas Oct. 20. The dashboard shows that 13,211…
Most AI implementations don’t fail because of the technology. They fail because organizations focus on deployment instead of behavior change. Clinicians don’t resist innovation — they resist disruption that doesn’t clearly improve patient care or make their day easier. In…
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Effingham, Ill.-based Heartland Dental has reached 2,000 supported dental offices in its network, becoming the first DSO in the U.S. to reach the milestone. So far in 2026, Heartland Dental has added more than 106 practices, including 55 locations through…
The workforce shortages that have defined the last several years are expected to continue into 2027, but technological advances could alleviate some of the pressure on dental practices. Two dentists recently spoke with Becker’s to discuss the workforce challenges they…
Artistic Smiles, a dental practice in Longmont, Colo., has provided notice of a data breach, according to a recent post on the practice’s website. The practice discovered unauthorized access to its network that occurred between June 14 and June 21,…
Correspondence never stops arriving in the revenue cycle: remittance advice, explanation of benefits forms, denial letters, refund requests and patient payments. They arrive by mail, fax and a single bank file. Your team opens each one, identifies it, hunts across…
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Morgantown-based West Virginia University School of Dentistry has received a $15 million Congressionally Directed Spending award. The funding will be used for the dental school renovations and purchasing equipment, according to an Oct. 20 news release from Sen. Shelley Capito,…
The $30 billion VA dental contract recently awarded to Optum is the latest signal that payers and large health systems are no longer circling dentistry — they’re moving in. Optum will manage dental benefits for eligible veterans under the 10-year…
Mid-State Technical College has opened a $3.5 million dental clinic in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., to support its new dental hygiene and dental assistant programs, according to an Oct. 19 report from ABC affiliate WSAW. The program will serve up to…
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