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Jay Letwat, executive director of business development at Sunbit, and Amy Eveland, COO of the Smile Group, spoke with "Becker's Dental + DSO Review Podcast" to discuss why patient financing innovation has been stagnant for so long.

Retrace, a dental artificial intelligence company, has tapped Brian Worth to be its senior vice president of payer sales, the company said in a March 3 news release.

Several dental companies saw increases in their quarterly and annual financials during the fourth quarter of 2021, while one saw decreases in multiple categories. 

Below are 10 dentists making an impression on the dental industry.

Ten kinds of oral bacteria were found to be associated with a higher risk of hypertension in women in a study published March 2 in the Journal of the American Heart Association. 

Female dentists tend to be younger than male dentists, with 21.5 percent of women being over the age of 55 compared to 45.2 percent of male dentists.

The number of dentists has increased from 163,409 in 2001 to 201,927 in 2021, according to recent data from the American Dental Association.

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