The FDA granted 16 dental devices 510(k) clearance in July.

The Great Schools Partnership is expanding its youth dental program to help with the dental desert in Tennessee, according to Knoxville News Sentinel.

Underinsured and uninsured adults are in dire need of dental care, according to The State.

Dental implant quality has improved in the last few years, according to saukvalleu.com.

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  Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate bill No. 529, adding new registration requirements for dental support organizations, according to mondaq.

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  A Medicare contractor inappropriately paid $2.3 million for rendered dental services that were not complacent with Medicare requirements, according to a report by the Office of Inspector General.

  U.S. health official killed a Food and Drug Administration proposal that would forbid dentists from using filling containing mercury components, according to the News & Observer.

  CareCredit has donated $100,000 to the ADA Foundation Give Kids A Smile Fund for the ninth consecutive year, reports DentistryIQ.com.  

Kourosh Maddahi, DDS, of Beverly Hills, Calif., revealed in a statement details about his Smile Lift procedure, which uses shaping, coloring and placement instead of fillers or surgeries aimed to give patients a more youthful look.

A new loan forgiveness program in Kentucky is aimed at promoting oral health, as well as to recruit new dentists to the state, according to a University of Kentucky News report.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine and American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine have issued a joint guideline, recommending oral appliance therapy for the treatment of adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea who are intolerant of continuous positive airway pressure therapy or prefer alternate therapy.

  Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of dental caries intervention on a Late Upper Palaeolithic modern human specimen (Villabruna) from a burial in Northern Italy, according to their report in Scientific Reports.  

Dental instrument and product company Hu-Friedy has released the results of an independent scientific study evaluating the sharpness and edge retention of two scaler brands.

  Ten years ago, anesthesia administered prior to a root canal left a man with signs of anterograde amnesia, according to Tech Time.  

3M will combine their 3M ESPE Dental and 3M Unitek Orthodontics into a single division called 3M Oral Care.  

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Dental consultants throughout this country arguing against the grain of better economics recommend eliminating the debt service that they say is holding back their clients' practices.