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Aspen Dental will open a new office location in Hermitage, Tenn.

The Environment Protection Agency has determined that routine dental procedures are responsible for more than half of all mercury found in public water treatment plants, according to a National Journal report.

There are approximately 10,151 professionally active orthodontists in the U.S., according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation report.

Porterville, Calif.-based Family HealthCare Network named Karthik Raghuraman, DDS, its new interim dental director, according to a report by The Porterville Recorder.

Euless, Texas-based Brident Dental & Orthodontics opened a new location in McAllen, Texas.

Ashfaq Ahmad, DMD, has opened a new practice, New Smile Dental, in Ridgefield, Conn., according to a report by The Ridgefield Press.

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law a bill that requires dental plans to disclose the amount of money spent on direct dental services designed to improve care, according to a Sacramento Business Journal report.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry has awarded Kent Palcanis, DDS, the Outstanding Periodontal Educator Award.

Over-all health may be closely linked with dental health, according to the Delta Dental Oral Health and Well-Being Survey. Here are nine statistics on oral health in the United States.

Glendale, Ariz.-based OnCall Dental Urgent Care plans to open offices in Tempe, Ariz., and Mesa, Ariz., next month, according to a Phoenix Business Journal report.