Arizona wants dental assistants cleaning teeth with less training. Will patients pay the price?
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Kentucky Tables Assistant Scaling Proposal as Practice Act Moves Forward…
Kentucky’s assistant-scaling proposal is off the table. Here’s what the Board of Dentistry’s decision means.
Solmetex, LLC Acquires ReLeaf
MARLBOROUGH, MA and VANCOUVER, WA – January 9, 2026 – Solmetex, LLC, a leading provider of dental consumables and equipment, today…
Clerri Launches Authorized Integration with Open Dental Software
Expanded partnership enhances practice workflows by delivering real-time data flow, bringing membership plans closer to daily…
Dental Therapist Vs Oral Preventive Assistant
Two new oral health roles are making headlines, but they are not the same. A legal nurse consultant breaks down why these two oral…
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Older Adults Delayed Dental Visits More Than Any Other Care During the Pandemic
While older Americans have long faced barriers to care, it’s no surprise that lockdowns and restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated numerous medical and dental conditions experienced by this patient population. Further…
Large-Scale Study Shows Chewing Xylitol Gum Helps Reduce Preterm Births
While previous research has shown the salivary benefits of chewing xylitol gum in caries prevention, a new large-scale study also demonstrates it can help reduce preterm births, which the authors suggest is due, in part, to improvements in…
Targeting a Specific Protein May Significantly Improve Oral Cancer Outcomes
More than 10,000 Americans die each year due to oral cancer, and oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the most common. Without treatment, OSCC has deadly consequences. Researchers at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of…
HHS Warns of Insider Cybersecurity Threats to Healthcare, Including Dentistry
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a warning about the risk of insider threats to healthcare providers’ cybersecurity on April 21, 2022. The HHS defines an insider threat as: “a person within a healthcare…
Tennessee Considers a Two-Pronged Solution to Improving Access to Care
The state of Tennessee does not currently provide dental benefits to adults covered by Medicaid. The Volunteer State also has few dentists—less than 30%—willing to accept patients insured through Medicaid due to low reimbursement…
Three-Dimensional Model May Help Efforts to Create Tooth Enamel
Dental stem cells are not easy to grow in a lab setting—unlike blood-forming stem cells that are prolific in labs across the world—leaving the knowledge base surrounding the dentition lacking. Researchers from KU Leuven in Belgium hope to…
Denture Wearing Negatively Impacts Nutrition
A study that cross-referenced participants’ dental records with nutritional assessment revealed that those fitted for dentures experienced a notable decline in nutritional markers over the 2 years following the start of appliance wearing,…
Dental Student Works to Reduce Dental-Related Waste
Each year in the United States, more than 1 billion plastic toothbrushes are thrown away, according to the American Dental Association. When Rodrick Wiggins, a student at the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston, considered…
Rooting Out the Causes of Oral Malodor in Children
It’s not just adults who can develop bad breath. Children also can offend.
How to Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Ventilators have been in the news a lot lately, thanks to COVID-19. But while these machines are credited with saving lives, they have a downside.
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