Dentists
Two dentists discussed some of the implications President Joe Biden's presidency will have for the dental industry.
Orthodontic and dental marketing company Kaleidoscope hired Ted Teele as CEO, according to a Jan. 20 news release.
A 7-year-old girl's heart stopped during a Jan. 8 routine tooth removal, and she died six days later, reports The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
From an FBI raid to thought leadership in the dental industry, here are the dentists making headlines in the past week:
Former California Dental Association President Charles Wilson, DDS, died Dec. 23 at 96, according to a Jan. 14 announcement from the organization.
Oklahoma City-based Delta Dental of Oklahoma and Variety Care hosted a vaccine pod to vaccinate hundreds of dentists and dental workers, according to a Jan. 14 KOCO 5 News report.
The FBI and the Lubbock Police Department conducted a raid of Lubbock, Texas-based Jason White Dentistry Jan. 14.
The Eastman Institute for Oral Health at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) has started a new program to address the growing shortage of dentists and dental assistants, something the pandemic is exacerbating, reports ABC affiliate WROC.
Dental coverage was the third most common policy that Americans decided to scale back or drop in 2020, according to a survey from ValuePenguin.
Colgate-Palmolive and Boston-based Harvard School of Dental Medicine established a scholarship to support underrepresented dental students, according to a Jan. 13 news release.
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