Author: Ariana Portalatin

Low reimbursements under Maine’s Medicaid program are causing children to wait months for dental care, NBC affiliate News Center Maine reported Sept. 4. Six notes:  1. Michael Dowling, DMD, told News Center Maine that many children, including those needing general…

Dental 3D printing company SprintRay has acquired the dental portfolio of EnvisionTEC, a global manufacturer of 3D printers.  The acquisition includes patents, trademarks, inventory and other intellectual property related to EnvisionTEC’s dental materials and 3D printing technologies, according to a…

American Dental Association President Brett Kessler, DDS, and Scott Smith, DDS, past president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, published an editorial warning against efforts to eliminate community water fluoridation. In the editorial, published Sept. 5 in the Journal…

Here are five dental industry mergers and acquisitions that took place in August:

Here are four dental industry updates that have taken place in Ohio since Aug. 20:  1. Chicago-based Phase 1 Equity continued its 2025 expansion with its first Ohio practice. 2. New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Dental365 acquired six dental practices in…

Danbury, Conn.-based Archway Dental Partners recently added its first New York practice. The DSO partnered with Advanced Dentistry of Scarsdale and Advanced Dentistry of Chappaqua, according to a news release from the company. The offices are led by Steven Brisman,…

Chicago-based Aspen Dental opened an office in Waynesville, N.C., Sept. 4.  The new office is led by practice owner Joshua Cardinal, DDS, according to an email sent to Becker’s. Aspen Dental is one of the largest DSOs in the U.S.,…

Phoenix-based Salt Dental Partners has added Lineberry Orthodontics to its network.  Lineberry Orthodontics has two practices in Boise and Mountain Home, Idaho. Salt Dental Partners recently celebrated achieving 300% growth over the last two years, hitting more than 150 offices…

Teledentistry provider Dentulu has begun offering Viome’s at-home cancer saliva test nationwide. The CancerDetect salivary diagnostic test uses RNA sequencing and AI-driven insights to identify biomarkers in saliva associated with oral and throat cancers. The test can detect early-stage oral…

Class-action law firm Lynch Carpenter is investigating a recent data breach that took place at a Nevada dental practice.  Las Vegas-based Absolute Dental, which has more than 50 locations across the state, discovered that an unauthorized party accessed some of…