Dentists

In a 2021 survey conducted by the American Dental Education Association, dental students shared their top reasons for selecting a dental school.

Great Barrington, Mass.-based Community Health Programs launched a multi-year, $6 million project to increase dental care for Medicaid patients in Berkshire County The Berkshire Eagle reported Feb. 5.

Dentists nationwide are increasingly turning away from opioids as a form of pain relief for patients as the effectiveness of alternatives become more known, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Feb. 7. 

The dean of the Western University of Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine and seven other dentists in the news in the last week:

New Port Richey, Fla.-based SmileFaith Foundation invited dentists from around the country to restore veterans' smiles, according to a Feb. 4 ABC Action News WFTS Tampa Bay article.

Steven Friedrichsen, DDS, dean of the Western University of Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine in Pomona, Calif., will retire July 1.

The death of a Wilmington, N.C., cardiologist during a dental procedure has prompted the North Carolina Dental Board to consider changes to sedation protocols, according to a Feb. 3 WECT News 6 article.

An eight-person jury in Macomb County, Mich., agreed a patient should receive $400,000 after he lost most of his taste and feeling in his tongue from a dentist accused of wrongly injecting numbing solution, the Macomb Daily reported Feb. 2. 

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the professional plans of close to a quarter of graduating dental students, according to a 2021 survey conducted by the American Dental Education Association.

A Houston father and son were arrested Jan. 31 on charges of practicing dentistry without a license, according to ABC13 Eyewitness.