Dental Practice: Page 138

Hygienists may be the key to fewer dental visits at hospitals

By Melissa Busch

States that give dental hygienists more autonomy and expand their scope of practice may have fewer preventable nontraumatic dental visits at emergency rooms, according to a study published March 5 in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology.

March 8, 2022

Ore. inches closer to free dental for veterans

By Melissa Busch

Legislators in Oregon moved one step closer to providing free dental care to low-income veterans living in the state in 2023. If passed and signed into law, the bill would make Oregon the first state in the U.S. to offer this type of program.

March 8, 2022

Ill. changes law, paves way for TAG's free dental clinic

By Melissa Busch

This summer, Aspen Dental's parent company, TAG - The Aspen Group, will open a dental clinic in Chicago offering free care to underserved populations. It wouldn't have been possible without changes to the state's dental practice act allowing licensed dentists from other states to practice in Illinois for a few days per year.

March 7, 2022

Do's and don'ts for customer service

By Dr. Roger P. Levin

Excellent verbal skills are a key ingredient to the success of dental practices. Every practice system -- scheduling, customer service, and case presentation, to name a few -- depends on communication, writes Dr. Roger P. Levin.

March 6, 2022

Week in Review: How to treat patients who use marijuana | Tips to protect your future practice | Chicago Midwinter videos

By Theresa Pablos

March 4, 2022

Retrace appoints Worth as senior VP of payer sales

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Retrace recently appointed Brian Worth as the company's senior vice president of payer sales to help the company's expansion of its artificial intelligence software into the dental and orthodontic ecosystem.

March 3, 2022

Pacific Dental celebrates Dental Assistants Recognition Week

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Pacific Dental Services is joining the American Dental Assistants Association in celebrating the 45th annual Dental Assistants Recognition Week, March 6-12.

March 3, 2022

Why is insurance verification so important?

By Dr. James V. Anderson

For many people, having dental insurance is a valuable perk: They feel they can afford dentistry. But just because a policy states there are covered benefits, it doesn't necessarily mean the plan will pay the claim. Dr. James V. Anderson details what you need to know about insurance verification.

March 3, 2022

Dominion to offer DigiBite's teledentistry app

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Dominion National will provide customers with access to teledentistry services through an application from DigiBite.

March 2, 2022

N.C. regulates pups at the dental office

By Michelle Crouch

The first time 11-year-old Levi McAllister had a tooth pulled, he screamed and kicked so much that his mom had to hold him down. So, when Levi returned to Charlotte Pediatric Dentistry to get two more teeth pulled, dental hygienist Barb Kucera had a surprise for him: a friendly Labrador retriever.

March 2, 2022

Benco, others create fund for underrepresented people

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Dental distributor Benco Dental, the United Negro College Fund, and the Dental Trade Alliance have created an endowment to address the lack of underrepresented individuals in dental education.

March 1, 2022

How dentistry can win the battle against 'Dr. Google'

By Melissa Busch

It's a familiar problem for dental professionals: the patient who consults too often with "Dr. Google." Misinformation on the internet has some patients challenging the experts. One presenter at the Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting advised meeting patient demands with effective communication.

March 1, 2022

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