Two female students enrolled at the University of Texas Health San Antonio School of Dentistry filed a lawsuit April 30 against an oral and maxillofacial radiology professor they claim sexually harassed them, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
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More than 450 Aspen Dental practices across the nation will offer military veterans free dental care on June 8.
Dentists and other medical providers are beginning to compete for patients who are becoming more like consumers. For some providers, this means offering online payments, and for others it means letting patients sit in massage chairs, Business Insider reports.
SmileDirectClub and Western Dental are among five dental companies making headlines.
Orange, Calif.-based Western Dental has purchased two privately owned Coast Dental offices —one in Vallejo, Calif., and another in Tracy, Calif.
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Phoenix-based Desert Valley Dental was the target in a data breach that may have affected more than 7,500 patients, according to Arizona's Family.
In most U.S. communities, there is one dentist for about every 2,000 residents, but in El Paso, that ratio falls to one in 5,482, Rene Rosas, DDS, wrote in the El Paso Times.
Valsoft Corp., a company that specializes in the acquisition and development of vertical market software businesses, has acquired XLDent, a dental practice management software developer.
A former Maplewood, Minn.-based dentist and federal prosecutors have settled a lawsuit that claimed the dentist illegally prescribed opioids to his son and an employee, according to local ABC affiliate WDIO.
Environmental influences and social determinants of health have more of an effect on whether a patient will develop cavities than genetic factors, according to a study in Pediatrics.