Here's this week's roundup of dentists making headlines.
- Illinois dentist Yun Sup Kim, DDS, was ordered to serve 12 months and one day in federal prison for defrauding Illinois Medicaid via a yearslong false reimbursement scheme.
- Rena D'Souza, DDS, PhD, was named as the next director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.
- Jeffrey Mathews, DDS, a Nashville, Tenn.-based dentist arrested for throwing a house party and violating public health orders, entered a guilty plea.
- Richard Byrd, DDS, a Virginia dentist who was the subject of a news station investigation after a whistleblower alleged unsanitary conditions, was ordered to pay $5,000 to the Virginia Board of Dentistry.
- Pranathi V. Reddy, DMD, a traveling oral surgeon living in Pennsylvania, allegedly altered patient medical records of drug usage to conceal her own personal drug use.
- Virginia dentist Matthew Mower, DDS, faced multiple charges stemming from an alleged assault and an incident of driving while intoxicated.
- The American Dental Association introduced its president-elect, Arizona dentist Daniel Klemmedson, DDS, MD, who will take over Oct. 19.
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