Philips Sonicare and Candid Care have teamed up to improve the dental health experience for both patients and dental professionals. 

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OraPharma, a company that sells oral health products, will pay $100,000 to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare. 

Seven dentists who joined DSO networks and five other dentists who have made headlines since Jan. 30:

From funding to establish a dental school to research and scholarship grants, here are nine dental education updates Becker's has reported on since Jan. 24:

Three dental industry billionaires' current combined net worth totals $8.9 billion, according to Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires tracker.

Esthetic Associates, a dental office in Baton Rouge, La., appears to have abruptly closed without notice, CBS affiliate WAFB reported Feb. 2.

Here are 12 things to know about dentistry in Wisconsin:

Dentists are mostly more confident in the recovery of their dental practices and the overall dental care sector than the U.S. economy, according to a recent poll from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute. 

Dental practice schedules were 85.5 percent full in January, according to a recent poll from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.  

Dr. Hacer Aksel, a clinical assistant professor of periodontics and endodontics at the University of Buffalo (N.Y.) School of Dental Medicine, has received a grant to study vital pulp therapy. 

Mississippi is the worst state for dental health, according to personal finance website WalletHub, receiving an overall score of 33.42 out of 100 points.

Wisconsin is the best state for dental health, according to personal finance website WalletHub, receiving an overall score of 74.69 out of 100 points.

Here are eight acquisitions that took place in the dental industry in January:

Celebrity cosmetic dentist Catrise Austin, DDS, recently joined Montclair (N.J.) Dental Spa.

Henry Cherrick, DDS, an oral pathology leader who served as dean of two dental schools, died Jan. 24 at the age of 84. 

Arkansas is the state with the worst dental health and has 1,043 active general dentists, according to a ranking from dental provider Express Dentists and data from health policy nonprofit the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Connecticut is the state with the best dental health and has 1,981 active general dentists, according to a ranking from dental provider Express Dentists and data from health policy nonprofit the Kaiser Family Foundation.

National dental provider Express Dentist ranked Connecticut as the state with the best dental health and Arkansas as the state with the worst in a recent study. 

A Florida dentist facing several battery charges for inappropriately touching female patients and an employee was given four 60-day sentences, the Pensacola News Journal reported Jan. 28.