Dentists

After recent license suspensions of two local oral surgeons, the city of Wilmington, N.C., is experiencing a shortage that can affect whether residents will receive care, WECT News, an NBC affiliate, reported July 7.

Fishersville, Va.-based Augusta Regional Dental Clinic is hiring more dentists, hygienists and assistants to meet an expected 40 percent patient volume increase, reports WVIR-TV.

A Texas dentist has donated $25,000 to the Hunt School of Dental Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, to go toward student scholarships.

About 35 percent of adult Americans didn't have a dental examination or cleaning in 2019, according to National Health Interview Survey results recently published by the CDC.

The first State of Dentistry report was recently released to provide key insight into what the dental industry looked like amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A New York City oral surgeon died in a plane crash near Aspen, Colo., the New York Daily News reported July 5.

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Police in Mission, Texas, arrested a man July 1 on suspicion of illegally practicing dentistry from his house, KVEO reported.

A Ventura, Calif., dentist agreed to plead guilty to filing a false tax return as part of a national college admissions scandal, federal officials said last week.

Police are trying to locate a woman accused of performing unlicensed dental work in Louisiana, CBS affiliate WWL-TV reported.