Donald Cherry, DDS, has been named president of the Peninsula Dental Society, according to a Daily Press report.
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Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Dientes Community Dental opened a new wing — the $3 million Helen Webster Children's Dental Center in Santa Cruz, according to a Santa Cruz Sentinel report.
Jamie D. Harvey, DMD, has joined Hartsville (S.C.) Family Dentistry, according to a report by The Hartsville Messenger.
More than half of pediatric dental patients (59.1 percent) are covered by private health insurance, according to the American Dental Association's 2012 Survey of Dental Practice: Pediatric Dentists in Private Practice Characteristics Report.
The St. Cloud (Minn.) VA Health Care System opened its new dental clinic, according to an AM 1240 WJON report.
The global single-tooth implants and dental bridges market is $4.7 billion by 2019, according to a MarketsandMarkets report.
The number of dental assistant jobs is expected to grow 25 percent from 2012 to 2022, according to the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Keith Kinderknecht, DMD, a professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry department of prosthodontics, has been elected to The American Society of Equilibration Society board of directors.
Gentle Touch Family Dentistry in Plattsburgh, N.Y., added Marjan Mohajer, DDS, to its medical team, according to a Press Republican report.
Medical tourism is on the rise. Approximately 1.2 million Americans will travel outside of the country for health and dental care this year, according to a report by dental software review group Software Advice.