Dentists

Here are five dentists making headlines:

A man in Port St. Lucie, Fla., has been accused of practicing dentistry without a license, according to NBC affiliate WPTV.

Dentists at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry in Chapel Hill are performing a new procedure that removes teeth deemed unnecessary and places them where the teeth may be more needed, according to The Daily Tar Heel.

In the first few months of 2019, S&P 500 stocks have surged 14 percent, according to Business Insider. This comes after a volatile fourth quarter in 2018.

Here are seven dental companies making headlines. 

With SmileDirectClub's partnership with HP, the dental company will have the largest deployment of the HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printers, according to ZDNet.

Dental insurer Beam Dental will invest $1.5 million and bring 150 jobs to its Columbus, Ohio, headquarters, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

Washington, Pa.-based Western Pennsylvania Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery purchased Ohio Valley Oral Surgery, according to the Herald-Star.

A Montgomery County, Md.-based dental surgical assistant was found guilty of sexually assaulting a minor patient who was undergoing wisdom teeth removal, according to local news station WTOP.

Nadeem Karimbux, DDS, has been named the new dean of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, effective July 1. He is the dental school's 17th dean.