Here are seven dental companies making headlines.
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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.
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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.
A University of Nevada Las Vegas dentist was overpaid around $460,000 between 2009 and 2017, according to a memo written by an attorney at the university and cited by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Here is the latest roundup of dentists that made headlines for everything from discussing the future of dentistry to being awarded for patient care.
A federal judge ruled SmileDirectClub's digital scanning of patients' teeth does constitute the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene.
Between closing million-dollar funding rounds and proposing plans to influence the opioid epidemic, dental companies and practices made headlines this week.