Five companies in the news:
1. Touro Dental Health, an 81-chair clinic, plans to slash opioid prescriptions by 80 percent.
2. Pearl, a dental spinoff company devoted to artificial intelligence, closed an $11 million Series A funding round and is set to launch three new products.
3. Delta Dental of Illinois notified an unknown number of members about a phishing attack that may have exposed members’ protected health information.
4. Roanoke, Va.-based Spencer Dental has been accused of using unsterile dental instruments on pediatric patients.
5. Delta Dental of Wisconsin proposed on May 8 building a $25 million corporate headquarters in Stevens Point, Wis.
6. Henry Schein reported a slight dip year over year — 0.1 percent — in dental sales, totaling $1.5 billion for the first quarter for 2019.
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