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.

James Guggenheimer, DDS, a professor emeritus of oral medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, died Jan. 27 at the age of 85, the Fox Chapel Herald reported Feb. 3.

Here are seven dental mergers and acquisitions stories Becker's reported in January:

Patients are feeling ashamed, guilty and fearful when returning to the dentist after postponing dental visits, according to a Feb. 1 Washington Post article.