Dentists

Harold Tu, DMD, MD, was appointed to the federal Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force created by the HHS.

Henry Schein selected Brad Connett to serve as president of the company's U.S. medical group.

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Daly City, Calif.-based Campus Heights Dental Care dentist Amishi Patel, DDS, pled no contest and was sentenced to 20 months in jail for performing unnecessary dental work on eight patients, The Daily Journal reports.

Orillia, Canada-based dentist Joe Phillips, DDS, filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit to reject allegations he used improperly sterilized instruments, according to Bayshore Broadcasting.

Virginia dentist Maryam Zarei, DDS, faces 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to Medicaid fraud last year, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

Henry Schein and Ortho Computer Systems entered an agreement to advance practice management software solutions to orthodontists.

Here are five dentists making headlines.

North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation and local dentist Kirk Turner, DDS, settled a lawsuit where Dr. Turner claimed two SBI agents framed him for the murder of his wife, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.