Dentists

The staff at a Connecticut oral surgery practice was recently given a Life Saving Award from the West Hartford Fire Department after saving a man's life using CPR and an automated external defibrillator, we-ha.com reported April 4. 

A Utah dental practice was recently damaged after a car crashed into it April 4, NBC affiliate KSLTV reported.

Here are five updates that have taken place in the dental industry since Feb. 7:

Dr. B Dental Solutions, founded by Lorin Berland, DDS, received more than $5 million during its seed funding round. 

Patient cancellations and no-shows were the top barrier preventing dental practice schedules from being 100 percent full in March, according to a poll by the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute. 

More than 40 percent of dentists indicated they were "somewhat confident" in the economic recovery of their dental practices and the dental care sector as a whole, according to a recent poll by the American Dental Association Health Policy Institute. 

Teresa Poorman-Maaske, DDS, retired from the Tooth Fairy Pediatric Dental Clinic in Kearney, Neb., according to a March 31 report by Kearney Hub.

Here are four acquisitions that took place in the dental industry in April:

A dentist in Florida who patients believed had gone missing was arrested on probation violation, according to a March 31 report by NBC News Channel 8.

The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center School of Dentistry in Memphis received a $52.9 million grant to increase the number of dentists and access to dental care in the state.