SmileDirectClub, Western Dental & more: 7 dental company notes

Here are seven dental companies making headlines. 

1. Orange, Calif.-based Western Dental has relocated another California practice to a larger, more accommodating workplace.

2. With SmileDirectClub's partnership with HP, the dental company will have the largest deployment of the HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printers.

3. Dental insurer Beam Dental will invest $1.5 million and bring 150 jobs to its Columbus, Ohio, headquarters.

4. Boston-based DentaQuest has selected Akhil Sharma to serve as its executive vice president and CFO.

5. Waltham, Mass.-based 42 North Dental purchased Northborough (Mass.) Dental Associates, bringing the dental service organization's acquisition total to 21 since being backed by a private equity firm.

6. Orange, Calif.-based Western Dental & Orthodontics has opened its first practice in Jurupa Valley, Calif.

7. A federal judge ruled SmileDirectClub's digital scanning of patients' teeth does constitute the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene.

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