- Steven Lepowsky, DDS, was appointed to a five-year term as the dean of the Farmington-based University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine.
- Virginia dentist Robert Keith Barbour, DMD, received a nine-month prison sentence for failing to pay nearly $600,000 in taxes.
- Mark Funke, DDS, president of the Nevada Dental Association, said dental practices should be considered hard-hit businesses amid the pandemic.
- Arkansas orthodontist Ben Winters, DDS, and London-based dentist Dr. Shaadi Manouchehri encouraged young people to do their research before acting on a new TikTok trend in which young influencers get their teeth shaved down to short pegs and fitted with crowns.
- California prosthodontist Michael Scherer, DMD, responded to some COVID-19 survivors’ speculation that tooth loss is a long-term effect of the disease, saying that gum disease is highly sensitive to hyper-inflammatory reactions.
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