Two hospitals in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, have severely limited the availability of their operating rooms for pediatric dentists to provide much-needed dental care to children who require sedation. The low rate of reimbursement provided to…

Implant-supported restorations offer the best solutions for edentulism.

Dental care is not only important for humans but also for our canine friends. Now dogs tasked with important roles in the United States Military —from bomb sniffing to protecting their service members — will receive the dental care they…

Following completion of her pediatric residency at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Adams School of Dentistry, Gail Rohlfing, DDS, began a 30-year career providing dental care to children in Greensboro and…

 A group of parents in Buffalo, New York, has filed a class action lawsuit in state Supreme Court to ensure fluoride is added back to community water supplies after an 8-year hiatus. Buffalo stopped fluoridating its water in 2015, citing a…

Scam artists are posing as members of the California State Dental Board to swindle unsuspecting dentists. They call dental practices noting that the dentist’s license has been suspended due to suspicious drug prescribing practices and then…

In 2022, a Snohomish County, Washington dentist extracted several teeth from an 86-year-old patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The patient’s breathing stopped mid-procedure and emergency medical personnel were not called by…

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health — a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring all Americans have access to oral healthcare — recently published a report “Dental Danger: Home Remedies to Avoid When Awaiting Care.” As more than half of…

While rare, these lesions require a dual approach to treatment.

While attending dental school may be the dream of many, it is notoriously difficult to get in. Insider Monkey — a finance website that tracks hedge funds — recently released a list of the dental schools that offer the highest acceptance…