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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
ACCLEAN® by Henry Schein has revamped its line of dental hygiene products to provide a comprehensive, end-to-end solution across all stages of preventive care.
Arkansas has 96 regions noted as dental care health professional shortage areas and is meeting only 36.5% of its residents’ dental needs, according to data provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation. A small, private college in Arkansas with…
