Dentistry News

They did it for profit,” said Stacey Gagnon, shown with husband, Darren, on the steps of the Prescott, Ariz., courthouse.

Dentist Frank Illuzzi was stunned when Vermont tax collectors began demanding a 6 percent sales tax on the value of toothbrushes and floss he hands out to patients.

"I am not so much the pebble dropping in the pond as I am the ripples that follow." -- Miles Levin.

"I am not so much the pebble dropping in the pond as I am the ripples that follow." -- Miles Levin.

Students from a dental school in south-west England are to travel to India to provide treatment and give advice in "health care deprived" areas.

As part of a federal project aimed at better treating pain , the University of Maryland, Baltimore will begin revamping the way it teaches future doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.

Fluoride was added to municipal water supplies in the 1950s and '60s as a way to combat tooth decay.

But modern science shows ingesting fluoride does not reduce tooth decay. Many cities are stopping this outdated practice, saving money and preserving health.

Community Dental Services, a managed-care dental plan with about 16,000 Medi-Cal members in Sacramento and Los Angeles counties, will cease operations and transfer its enrollees to Liberty Dental Plan on June 1, state officials announced Friday.

REDDITCH families have been celebrating National Smile Month in style at the Stay and Play groups at each of the town's six Children's Centres.

Lynn Robe fears the altercation at the 1A Dental Practice in Fowler Street, South Shields, will effect her daughter's view of dental health after she witnessed the outburst.

PULLING TEETH: Port Erin Dental Surgery s Erik Ahlbom, centre, with Ugandan dentists and trainers Apollo and Gilbert, with whom he has remained in contact and will meet again in September FOR two weeks in June last year Port Erin Dental Surgery's Erik Ahlbom was part of a mobile surgery that travelled to remote areas of Uganda, treating severely ... (more)

Children from Egerton Primary School were given lessons in cleaning their teeth.

Federal authorities have arrested two men from Rhode Island and New York in an alleged $20 million Medicaid fraud scheme involving dentists' offices in Connecticut.

Dr. Edwin Weaver knew how to put people at ease. With a friendly smile and kind words, the Derry Township dentist got people to relax in that most scary seat, the dentist's chair.

Pediatric Dentists Can Now License American Dental Association Patient Education Materials Pediatric dentists are now able to include patient education materials on their websites from the world-renown American Dental Association , thanks to a marketing collaboration between the ADA and Dentists4kids.com.Dentists4kids.com, the largest website ... (more)

A grand jury indicted Oakton dentist Hamada Makarita on Thursday for allegedly illegally distributing prescription medicine to patients, employees and girlfriends, among other charges.

The following release was provided by the Connecticut Attorney General's office.

The dentists say their goal is to see every patient that is in pain. Paperwork will be handed out beginning at 6:30 AM and patients will be seen from 8 AM until noon.

Vets had to perform CPR on a 160kg Siberian tiger after she suffered a cardiac arrest during a visit to the dentist.

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