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Nader Nadershahi, DDS, has resigned as dean of San Francisco-based Dugoni School of Dentistry of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., according to a Feb. 14 report from NBC affiliate KCRA 3.

After a telehealth company's Super Bowl commercial sparked nationwide debate about pharmaceutical safety and advertising, one DSO executive is reflecting on what the controversy means for patient care in dentistry. 

Dentists' panic selling their practices to DSOs, the wave of dental hygienists leaving the workforce and a breakdown in trust between dentists and patients are three ways that dentistry and dental practice operations have been permanently altered by COVID-19. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed by the Senate as the next HHS secretary Feb. 13 with a final vote of 52-48, according to a Feb. 13 news release from the American Dental Association.

Here are six federal and state bills being considered by legislators to improve dental care access, reform dental insurance, increase private equity oversight and more: 

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