Here are seven notable updates about the dental industry in Arizona:
1. The American Dental Hygienists’ Association is partnering with the Delta Dental Foundation of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana to launch a program that will address workforce shortages. The program is being launched in nine states, including Arizona.
2. Phoenix-based Desert Ridge Prosthodontics affiliated with Imagen Dental Partners.
3. Heartland Dental partnered with Desert Springs Dental in Gilbert, Ariz.
4. The Arizona Board of Dental Examiners revoked the license of a dentist in Flagstaff, Ariz., who used pliers on a patient during surgery.
5. The Arizona Senate passed a bill that would create the role of oral preventive assistant in the state.
6. Arizona legislators are considering a bill that would enter the state into the Dental and Dental Hygienist Compact.
7. A dentist in Arizona agreed to have chaperones in his dental practices after a former dental assistant was accused of sexually abusing patients.
