The scenario is simple and increasingly common: A dental assistant is running behind on notes at the end of a long day. She copies a patient's name, chief complaint, and a few health details into ...

Nearly 7% of all paid dental malpractice claims in the U.S. were the result of diagnostic errors like misdiagnoses and delayed diagnoses, according to a study recently published in the Journal of the ...

A former professor accused of making her students conduct experiments and write a research paper to help her daughter get admitted into a South Korean dental school was sentenced, according to ...

The Association of Dental Support Organizations (ADSO) has sued the Colorado Dental Board, claiming a rule change that affects DSO ownership threatens patient access, specifically for Medicaid ...

The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and its commissioner have sued two dental offices, claiming patients were tricked into paying for unnecessary procedures and signing them ...

Dentalcorp, one of the largest networks of dental practices in Canada, has entered the U.S. market with an acquisition in Florida. Dentalcorp acquired Northstar Dental Partners in Boca Rotan, FL, ...

Inflation is here and it’s real. Even if it improves, it isn’t likely that inflation rates will return to the extremely low levels of 2012-2021 for a while. This can have short- and long-term effects ...

A dentist in Virginia was suspended for allegedly having nonconsensual sexual conduct with two patients at his practice while they were under the influence of either alcohol or medication, according ...

The Ohio State Dental Board has indefinitely suspended a dentist in Ohio who is accused of attempting to pay a receptionist at the practice he jointly owns for a sexual favor, according to a recent ...

A pediatric dentist in Texas was arrested on July 15 for allegedly administering doses of sedatives, which would have been toxic for an adult, that killed a 4-year-old girl during a frenotomy to fix a ...

Allday Oral Moisturizing Rinse from Elevate Oral Care. Elevate Oral Care. Elevate Oral Care has launched Allday Oral Moisturizing Rinse, a new addition to its existing line of dry mouth products that ...

A dentist in Alaska who appeared on the hit TV series "Alaskan Bush People" is accused of committing Medicaid fraud by overbilling, providing unnecessary services, and treating below the standard of ...