From compensation to practice ownership stats, here's a pulse check on the U.S. dental industry:

Several private equity-backed dental companies have made moves to expand their services and practice networks. 

A dentist who was sentenced to five years in prison for tax evasion and five other dentists who have made headlines since May 31:

Two dental professionals are credited with saving a California hospital after a man entered the building and stabbed two nurses and an emergency department physician, CBS Los Angeles reported June 4. 

A Utah dentist has been sentenced to five years in prison for federal income tax evasion of more than $1.8 million and obstructing the IRS' efforts to collect the money, ABC affiliate WRIC reported June 6.

The Rutgers School of Dental Medicine at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., recently opened a center to advance digital dentistry. 

A Florida dentist who was charged with battery last week after inappropriately touching an employee has been arrested again, ABC affiliate WEAR-TV reported June 2. 

A new water fluoridation system will be deployed in several states in what advocates say is the first advancement in water fluoridation in decades, the American Dental Association reported May 31.

A DSO that acquired a two-location orthodontics practice and eight other dental acquisitions that took place in May: 

Stories covering compensation, workforce shortages and dental schools were among the most-read stories in May.