The University of Pikeville (Ky.) received a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support the development of its new dental school. The Tanner College of Dental Medicine will be the first ...

U.S. Rep Jennifer McClellan recently visited a nonprofit dental clinic in Virginia to discuss the impact of Medicaid cuts on patient care, WCYB reported Aug. 28.  Four notes: 1. President Donald Trump ...

The American Dental Association is pushing state dental boards to remove stigmatizing questions related to mental health and substance use disorders from licensure applications. The ADA recently sent ...

A woman in Yukon, Okla., is wanted for practicing dental hygiene without a license, according to a Sept. 2 report from KFOR. Christy Perkowski worked at Oklahoma Dental in Yukon. Her dental hygiene ...

Incoming federal loan caps could worsen workforce shortages if fewer students pursue dental education, one DSO executive predicts. Barry Lyon, DDS, the dental director for Main Street Children’s ...

Las Vegas-based Absolute Dental provided notice of a data incident involving its information systems.  The dental practice discovered that an unauthorized party accessed some of its systems between ...

The U.S. dentist workforce is growing and overall becoming younger, more female and more racially and ethnically diverse, according to data from the American Dental Association. Here are 15 things to ...

Empower Dental Group has opened a new practice location in Upland, Calif. The new practice is led by Tigran Gyokchyan, DDS, Kevin Khachatryan, DDS, and Artur Arkelakyan, DDS, according to an Aug. 29 ...

California, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas were the states where DSOs and dental groups were most active with practice additions, acquisitions and openings during August. Those states saw at ...

Henderson, Nev.-based PDS Health opened six de novo practices across five states in August, according to information shared with Becker’s. The integrated healthcare support organization has a network ...

Though only 16.1% of dentists in the U.S. were affiliated with a dental services organization in 2024, the share represents an 8.9-percentage point increase from 7.2% in 2015, according to data from ...

Chicago-based Phase 1 Equity has continued its 2025 expansion with its first Ohio practice  The dentist-led DSO expanded with a multi-site orthodontic practice in Ohio, marking the sixth practice it ...