Dentists

Louis Tratenberg, DDS, will repay Medicaid $250,000 for allegedly improperly billing the program between January 2011 and May 2016, according to Union News Daily.

Robert Gartler, DDS, a dentist in Amherst, N.Y., passed away at 92, according to The Buffalo News.

The following five dentists made headlines this past week.

Biolase appointed biotechnology expert Richard Lanman, MD, to its board of directors, effective Nov. 1, 2017.

Mehr Faisal, DMD, a general dentist, was designated a 2017 Top Doctor in Miramar, Fla.

Joel Berg, DDS, resigned from his position as dean of University of Washington School of Dentistry in Seattle, according to Seattle Times.

Henry The Dentist, a mobile dental clinic that travels to corporate offices, launched in New Jersey.

Here are seven dentists making headlines.

Jesse Wright, DDS, joined Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Kaufman Children's Dental Hospital's orthodontics and pediatric dentistry teams.

Vyne, a technology platform facilitating the electronic capture, storage and submission of healthcare data, appointed Robert Patrick to a newly created position president of dental.