Dentists

Smile Generation recently raised a record-breaking $800,000 to support the Pacific Dental Services Foundation’s special needs dentistry program. 

Here are 13 dental industry updates in California that Becker's has reported on since Oct. 5: 

Nashville, Tenn.-based Tend plans to open its second dental office in Arlington, Va., arlnow.com reported Nov. 15. 

Three dentists who are supported by the American Dental Political Action Committee were reelected to Congress. 

The minimum wage in California is set to increase Jan. 1, impacting dental practices, according to a Nov. 14 news release from the California Dental Association. 

Smile Studio Orthodontics, led by Leroy Venn, DDS, opened a practice in Carrollton, Ga.

Three Alaska dentists pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of medical assistance fraud, Alaska Public Radio reported Nov. 14.  

A Texas woman is accused of practicing dentistry without a license, according to a Nov. 14 report by Click2Houston.

The University of Michigan School of Dentistry in Ann Arbor was recently ranked as the best dental school in the world by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

Arkansas, Louisiana and West Virginia were recently ranked among the worst states for dental health in the U.S.