Clear aligner therapy company OrthoFX raised $13 million to roll out a new digital care platform, a dentist-centric financial model and emergency aligners.
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As dental practices reopen to treat nonemergency patients, some dentists may feel overwhelmed navigating the process of COVID-19 infection control compliance. Dentists have been inundated with mandates, guidelines and recommendations outlining the measures to take regarding personal protective equipment, procedural…
Only 12 percent of dental therapists in Minnesota said they were working either full time or on a reduced schedule, according to a recent survey cited by nonprofit Pew Trusts.
Southcentral Foundation, an Anchorage, Alaska-based nonprofit healthcare provider, fired three dentists after conducting an investigation of their record falsifications, according to Alaska Public Media.
COVID-19 contractions that occur in California dental practices must be reported to the state's division of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration if the illness falls under the agency's serious illness reporting regulation.
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Lexington-based University of Kentucky College of Dentistry has named Jeffrey Okeson, DMD, its dean, a decision made July 8 but still awaiting approval from the university's board of trustees.
A lawsuit dealing with a January 2019 ransomware incident at Boaz, Ala.-based Sarrell Regional Dental Center for Public Health has been dismissed by a federal judge due to lack of evidence that data was misused.
A Virginia man who was charged in March with the sexual assault of a minor and practicing unlicensed dentistry now faces 11 more charges, according to CBS affiliate WUSA.
The American Dental Association, along with the Organized Dentistry Coalition and some state dental associations, is urging Congress to provide relief to dental practices in the upcoming pandemic relief package.
Up to half of opioids given out by U.S. dentists are unnecessary and inappropriate, according to University of Pittsburgh data cited by NPR.