From dentists warning patients about another dental TikTok trend to the Nevada Dental Association's president advocating for greater financial support for dental practices amid the pandemic, here are the dentists making headlines in the past week.
- Steven Lepowsky, DDS, was appointed to a five-year term as the dean of the Farmington-based University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine.
- Virginia dentist Robert Keith Barbour, DMD, received a nine-month prison sentence for failing to pay nearly $600,000 in taxes.
- Mark Funke, DDS, president of the Nevada Dental Association, said dental practices should be considered hard-hit businesses amid the pandemic.
- Arkansas orthodontist Ben Winters, DDS, and London-based dentist Dr. Shaadi Manouchehri encouraged young people to do their research before acting on a new TikTok trend in which young influencers get their teeth shaved down to short pegs and fitted with crowns.
- California prosthodontist Michael Scherer, DMD, responded to some COVID-19 survivors' speculation that tooth loss is a long-term effect of the disease, saying that gum disease is highly sensitive to hyper-inflammatory reactions.
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