Dentists

Dental companies and DSOs collaborated this year on initiatives focused on education, medical-dental integration, technology and more.

Chicago-based Dentologie recently opened its ninth location in the city.

Three people, including two dentists, were taken to the hospital after a semitruck crashed into a dental practice in White Bear Lake, Minn., NBC affiliate KARE11 reported Dec. 4.

A former employee of Frey Orthodontics in Algonquin, Ill., recently received probation after pleading guilty to stealing $35,000 from the practice, the Lake & McHenry County Scanner reported Dec. 2. 

Batesville, Ark.-based Lyon College still hopes to build its dental and veterinary schools at the Heifer International complex in Little Rock despite its property deal falling through last month, Arkansas Business reported Dec. 4.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Dentistry has opened a center for global and community oral health.

A California dentist was recently sentenced to one year of federal supervised release for providing drug dealers with prescriptions for opiate painkillers in exchange for cocaine, The Mercury News reported Dec. 1. 

Stories about economic challenges, Medicaid and new legislation were among the most-read articles covered by Becker's this month. 

The Washington Dental Quality Assurance Commission has suspended the license of David Dowling, DDS, an orthodontist in Mississippi.

Here are 18 notable deals, partnerships, investments and other updates that have taken place in the dental industry so far in 2023: