Author: Ariana Portalatin

A Pennsylvania dentist hit with a $30,000 penalty and six other dentists who made headlines last week:

The Illinois legislature recently passed a bill that would require insurers to cover all craniofacial surgeries for kids up until the age of 19, wcia.com reported March 31. 

A comparison of the average dentist salary to annual household income drew the most attention in March.

Here are nine mergers and acquisitions that took place in the dental industry during the first three months of 2021:

ZimVie, Zimmer Biomet's recently formed dental and spine spinoff company, reported $469 million in dental revenue for 2021.

A Georgia woman who stole more than $240,000 from nonprofits, a local dental office and the Georgia Dental Society has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.

The annual compensation for dentists largely exceeds the base cost of living for each state in the U.S., according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Living Wage Calculator.

Delaware was the top paying state for general dentists in the U.S., according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Simulare Medical, the surgical simulator division of Smile Train, launched a bilateral cleft lip and palate simulator.

Dental supply company Benco Dental is partnering with Overjet to distribute the dental artificial intelligence company's software, Benco said March 31.