Dentists

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. 

A car crashed into a California dental practice during the evening of March 31, onscene.tv reported April 2. 

Dental practice schedules were 86.3 percent full in March, according to a poll from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.

A California oral surgeon accused of sexually assaulting multiple patients has relinquished his license, NBC affiliate KCRA reported March 30. 

The Whitney M. Young Jr. Health Center in Albany, N.Y., received a $499,999 grant to create a dental residency program, according to a March 27 report by ABC News 10. 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Chris Cramer, DDS, and reappointed Nancy Evans, DDS, and Amanda Richardson to the state's dental review board.

The dental industry has not been immune to the suffocating effects of inflation.

A former oral surgeon has been sentenced to 24 months in prison after tampering with fentanyl while working at a dental practice in Iowa City, Iowa, the Des Moines Register reported March 30.

Thomas Boreman, DDS, retired from Smithville Family Dentistry in Ohio after being in practice for 47 years, according to a March 27 report by The Daily Record.