Dentists
The Harvard University School of Dental Medicine will undergo site renovations as part of a $21 million project, the Boston Business Journal reported Oct. 27. The university received city permits to complete work on two buildings housing its medical and…
A pediatric dental clinic in Everett, Wash., could be demolished to make way for a light rail extension, The Everett Post reported Oct. 26. One of two proposed alignments for the 16-mile extension would run through the site of Children’s…
Here are three updates on new dental schools in the U.S.: 1. The University of Rochester (N.Y.) plans to open the Eastman School of Dentistry, the university’s first new school in more than 50 years. 2. In April, Georgia Southern…
The Idaho Board of Dentistry has adopted a new policy on the use of AI in dental clinical practice Oct. 9. The policy, issued through the state’s Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses, applies to dentists, dental hygienists, dental therapists…
Here are nine dentists who have made headlines since Oct. 19:
Wayne County, N.Y., is planning to restore dental services by reopening a dental clinic that could provide care to thousands of patients, according to an Oct. 25 report from FingerLakes1.com. Livingston County declared dental equipment surplus and made it available…
Springfield, Vt.-based North Star Health has added Windham County Dental Center in Brattleboro, Vt., to its organization. Windham County Dental Center was opened in 2019 through a partnership between United Way of Windham County and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. The center…
Wichita (Kan.) Family Dental has provided notice of a data breach impacting 1,273 individuals, according to a filing with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. In May 2026, the practice became aware of unauthorized access to an employee’s email account.…
From dental school contracts to company acquisitions to research initiatives, here are 10 new investments into dentistry worth more than $860 million, as reported by Becker’s since Sept. 8:
Minh Phuong Dong, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Loma Linda (Calif.) University School of Dentistry, received an award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to develop a way to predict how patients with oral cancer will…