Dental Business: Page 417

FBI raids dental chain that billed Medicaid $9.6M

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The FBI, Texas state investigators, and the state attorney general raided the offices of Sun Orthodontix, a Texas chain that was the second largest biller for braces under Medicaid in 2010, according to a news story by WFAA-TV.

September 26, 2012

Study: Risk of post-op bleeding minimal in warfarin users

By Rob Goszkowski

A retrospective study in Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology found few examples of postoperative bleeding after invasive dental procedures performed on warfarin users. However, the risk was significantly greater in patients taking other anticoagulants in addition to warfarin.

September 26, 2012

Fair Health offers fee estimator for dentists

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Fair Health has launched an online fee estimator to help physicians and dentists benchmark charges based on specialty and geography.

September 25, 2012

U.S. Army renews $17M dental IT contract with Harris

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Harris has been awarded a $17 million contract to deliver help-desk and sustainment support to the U.S. Army Dental Command's Corporate Dental System located at Fort Sam Houston in Texas.

September 25, 2012

ADA calls on dentists to fight Rx abuse

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The ADA is voicing its support for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's fifth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on September 29 by urging dentists to counsel their patients on how to safely secure and dispose of unused, unwanted, or expired pharmaceuticals.

September 24, 2012

Va. to get new dental school?

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Bluefield College in Bluefield, VA, hopes to be the answer to the shortage of dentists in Appalachia with the opening of its new dental school, projected for the fall of 2015, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph reported.

September 24, 2012

Beyond Practice Management: The art of collaboration

By Don Deems, DDS, FAGD

There is definitely an art to collaboration -- and collaboration is what is needed today to ensure that the patients who choose you to provide their care receive the care they want and need.

September 24, 2012

LED Dental to sell VELscope directly

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

LED Dental has amended its distribution agreement with Henry Schein and will now sell its VELscope Vx product directly to customers.

September 23, 2012

Dos and don'ts for patient management

By Dr. Roger P. Levin

All dental practices should create a short brochure about insurance. Well-informed patients are more likely to accept cases.

September 23, 2012

How to disassemble a dental practice partnership

By Thomas Climo, PhD

When it's time to reassess whether a partnership should continue as is or consider new ownership (including one or more of the existing partners), what's the best-case scenario for all involved? Consultant Thomas Climo, PhD, offers his advice, based on his involvement with dozens of dental practice purchases.

September 23, 2012

Film examines dental school's discriminatory past

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

A new documentary that examines past discrimination of Jewish students at the Emory University School of Dentistry will be shown next month at the university.

September 20, 2012

ECU dental school announces dean

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Gregory Chadwick, DDS, has been named permanent dean of the East Carolina University (ECU) School of Dental Medicine.

September 20, 2012

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