Author: Ariana Portalatin

After adding several practices and inking deals to support expansion last year, Dallas-based Smile Doctors has positioned itself to continue its growth in 2023.

The U.S. is in need of 11,909 dental practitioners to relieve shortage areas, according to data from the Health Resources and Services Administration.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham's oral oncology clinic is among the first in the Southeast to use augmented reality in head and neck cancer surgery. 

Here are five dental groups that have grown their networks across the East Coast since Jan. 5:

More than 200,000 dentists will be needed to meet patient demand by 2030, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration.

The American Dental Association and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry filed comments to CMS in response to its proposed benefit and payment parameters for 2024.

Dentists are mostly more confident in the recovery of their dental practices and the overall dental care sector than the U.S. economy, according to a recent poll from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute. 

Dental practice schedules were 85.5 percent full in January, according to a recent poll from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.  

Here are eight acquisitions that took place in the dental industry in January:

Celebrity cosmetic dentist Catrise Austin, DDS, recently joined Montclair (N.J.) Dental Spa.