1. A woman from St. Clair Shores, Mich., was charged with allegedly embezzling more than $200,000 from a dental practice where she was an employee at the time.
2. An Illinois woman was charged with practicing dentistry without a license.
3. OraPharma, a company that sells oral health products, will pay $100,000 to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare.
4. A Florida dentist facing several battery charges for inappropriately touching female patients and an employee was given four 60-day sentences.
5. A Nevada dentist pleaded guilty to failing to pay the IRS taxes withheld from employee wages.
6. Multiple dental practice owners and co-conspirators were charged for allegedly taking part in a multifaceted racketeering conspiracy through a multistate network of dental practices and businesses.
7. A Massachusetts dentist pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $1.2 million from his employer and fraudulently obtaining government benefits in his employer’s name.
8. The CEO of a snap-on veneer company filed a lawsuit against a Missouri dentist for criticisms made about the product in a YouTube video.
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