Author: Cameron Cortigiano

Dental practices are struggling to recruit dental hygienists, dental assistants, dentists and administrative staff, with each role being mostly "extremely" or "very" challenging to recruit, according to a poll from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.

Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Dentistry has a 29.4 percent acceptance rate — the highest among U.S. dental schools — according to academic consulting website BeMo.  

Jennifer Burkitt, DDS, a dentist in Tulsa, Okla., agreed to pay $150,000 in penalties as a settlement following allegations that her practice violated the Controlled Substances Act. 

Dentists in Washington, D.C. may have the highest level of stress related to work, according to personal finance website WalletHub.

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Here are seven dental headlines from New York that Becker's reported on in June:

Dentists are the most confident they have been in the recovery of their own practice and of the U.S. economy since the start of 2023, according to a poll from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute. 

Boca Raton, Fla.-based Sage Dental opened a new location in South Miami.

The University of Southern Indiana in Evansville is renovating its dental clinic as part of a $18.5 million renovations project to its Health Professions Center.

Bola AI and Pearl have teamed up to combine their dental artificial intelligence products into one package.