Raleigh, N.C.-based Oakpoint recently expanded into the Mid-Atlantic market.
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Effingham, Ill.-based Heartland Dental has made several moves to expand its network and support dental hygiene students.
The South Dakota Interim Rules Board recently approved several changes proposed by the state dental board, the Mitchell Republic reported July 18.
Dentists have an average salary of $118,030 in Alaska, the top-ranked state for dentists to live and work in.
The National Museum of Dentistry and the University of Maryland School of Dentistry in Baltimore received a $1.28 million grant to develop online learning tools to enhance oral health education.
PracticeTek, a group of healthcare software companies, launched Ora Dental, an enterprise information system designed specifically for DSOs.
Dallas-based MB2 Dental plans to hit 600 practices by the end of the summer.
Perimetrics, an artificial intelligence dental diagnostics company, formed an eight-member clinical advisory board.
Approximately one-third (31.4 percent) of dental hygienists and 33.7 percent of dental assistants are expecting to retire within the next five years, according to dental workforce shortage research from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.
The American Dental Association and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recently asked the Health Resources and Services Administration to keep a national performance measure for oral health.