Dentists

From administering at-home COVID-19 vaccines to new DSO affiliations, here are the latest dentists making the news:

SmileDirectClub having to pay Align more than $45 million captured the attention of readers most this March.

A surgeon from Watertown, N.Y.-based Oral Surgery & Periodontics NNY performed a free procedure for a woman with head and neck cancer who needed all of her teeth removed in order to continue radiation treatment, local FOX affiliate WWNY reported…

Avēsis, a subsidiary of Guardian Life Insurance Co., is giving a $250,000 grant to Dental Lifeline Network, according to a March 31 news release.

The U.S. Department of Defense has granted $1.5 million to the University of Buffalo in New York for its dental school to develop therapies to treat oral cancers, the university announced March 25.

The dental workforce could reach gender parity by 2040 — an estimate based on 2021 data from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.

 People who received dental coverage through the Healthy Michigan Plan, a Medicaid health program, reported improvements in their oral health and job performance, according to a study published March 22 in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry.

Dentists don't have to identify specific staff members who have had COVID-19 to patients, reports The New York Times.

The California Dental Association has been notified by other state dental associations of an email scam targeting their members that is soliciting GoFundMe donations.

From saving a woman in a burning car to fraud investigations, here are the latest dentists making the news: