Author: Staff

Here is the latest roundup of dental companies and practices that have been in the headlines, including Align Technology and Beam Dental.

A Granger, Ind.-based oral surgeon is using robotic technology at his practice to make procedures more minimally invasive, according to ABC57.

Former leaders from Invisalign and Philips Sonicare released a new clear aligner brand on June 12 known as OrthoFX.

Budget cuts and discrepancies with who is eligible for dental care have landed Connecticut as one of the worst states when it comes to cost for dental coverage, according to The CT Mirror.

Emergency and planned dental treatments often come with expensive price tags, according to U.S. News & World Report.

A San Diego dentist was charged June 10 with 75 insurance fraud counts for allegedly billing various insurance companies for procedures never performed, according to local Fox5SanDiego.com.

Vericred, a data services platform, has released a new dental network that allows patients to shop for dentists.

U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw sentenced a former Murfreesboro, Tenn., dentist to 33 months in prison for his role in a $1 million healthcare fraud scheme, according to the Daily News Journal.

A Los Angeles dentist was sentenced to 40 months in prison on June 6 for his role in a $3.8 million healthcare fraud scheme.

Align Technology's stock fell 12.4 percent in May with the decrease attributed to poor overall market conditions, according to a report from The Motley Fool.