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Routine spore testing confirms sterilizer performance, safeguards patients, and keeps dental practices compliant with CDC and OSHA…
Medicaid Cuts Push Dentists Out and Patients Pay the Price
Cut reimbursement, lose dentists. Who pays the price when Medicaid access disappears?
Arizona’s Oral Preventive Assistant Debate: Expanding Access or Lowering the…
Arizona wants dental assistants cleaning teeth with less training. Will patients pay the price?
Kentucky Tables Assistant Scaling Proposal as Practice Act Moves Forward…
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UMass Lowell Receives NIDCR Grants for Craniofacial Research
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