Dentists

Parents and dental professionals play a critical role in teaching children effective dental hygiene, which is essential to their overall health and well-being. With the new school year now underway across the country, parents, hygienists, and dentists can work together…

The average dental school debt is $308,200, compared to $250,990 for medical graduates.

There are 72 dental schools in the U.S. in 2023, up from 70 in 2022, according to the American Dental Association.

Scammers are targeting healthcare professionals by impersonating sheriff's deputies in a phone scam. 

The American Dental Association laid out eight steps that go into selling a dental practice. 

A former Texas dentist who was convicted for a dental procedure that left a child with brain damage received a five-year probation sentence, The Houston Chronicle reported Sept. 14. 

Here are 11 things to know about dentistry in Connecticut:

A Connecticut dentist who is accused of more than $200,000 in Medicaid fraud, rejected a plea bargain offer, according to a Sept. 14 report by the New Haven Register. 

Thirty-seven percent of dentists have seen up to a 10 percent increase in staff wages, according to recent data from the American Dental Association. 

Here are 12 of the biggest deals, acquisitions and investments that occurred in the DSO, supply chain and dental technology spaces that Becker's has reported on so far in 2023: