From sudden practice closures to budget proposals, below are five dental moves happening in the Great Lakes State:
1. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has proposed that an additional $243 million be added to her annual budget to expand dental coverage to adult Medicaid recipients.
2. A Macomb County jury awarded a patient $400,000 after he lost most of his sense of taste and feeling in his tongue from a procedure in which a dentist was accused of wrongly injecting numbing solution.
3. Grand Haven-based DSO Smile One Services was acquired by Tempe, Ariz.-based Gen4 Dental Partners.
4. Always Gentle Dentistry in Dearborn suddenly closed without warning.
5. Bright Side Dental in Sterling Heights and Smile America Partners in Farmington Hills were both named by Becker's as entrepreneurial DSOs to know.