Author: Ariana Portalatin

Here are five updates that have taken place in the dental industry since Feb. 7:

Tempe, Ariz.-based Gen4 Dental Partners has partnered with a New Mexico practice.

Straine Dental Management and Specialty Smile Partners were launched in April 2022, increasing competition in the DSO field and expanding private equity's foothold in the dental industry.

Patient cancellations and no-shows were the top barrier preventing dental practice schedules from being 100 percent full in March, according to a poll by the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute. 

More than 40 percent of dentists indicated they were "somewhat confident" in the economic recovery of their dental practices and the dental care sector as a whole, according to a recent poll by the American Dental Association Health Policy Institute. 

A first-year dental student at the Rutgers University School of Dental Medicine in Newark, N.J., was recently granted a patent for his dental aerosol protection system. 

The University of Illinois Chicago College of Dentistry created a new training program to help alleviate the national dental assistant shortage. 

The American Dental Association is supporting legislation targeting noncovered services provisions in dental and vision insurance plans.

Here are four acquisitions that took place in the dental industry in April:

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