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Though most Medicaid dental providers do honest and ethical work, Medicaid fraud is one of the most lucrative business models in U.S. dentistry, according to a report published Nov. 5 in the Journal of Insurance Fraud in America.

Irvine, Calif.-based Pacific Dental Services has opened its first supported practice in Maryland, the 23rd state the DSO has reached, according to a Nov. 10 news release.

Investors are hopeful more patients will soon resume scheduling nonessential procedures after Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine was 90 percent effective in preventing the disease, according to a Nov. 9 Bloomberg report.

From a Georgia dentist helping save a man from a burning vehicle outside his practice to five dentists being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, here are the dentists making headlines in the past seven days.

Five dentists were elected to Congress Nov. 3, as reported by the Advisory Board and the American Dental Association.

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