The ADA's Code Maintenance Committee has approved 67 updates to the Current Dental Terminology (CDT) 2027 code set. The changes include 28 new codes, 33 revisions, and six editorial changes. The ...

For decades, c one-beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been dentistry's most powerful imaging tool. But a new technology -- a dedicated dental MRI system developed through a collaboration with ...

Dr. Tom Giacobbi has an important message for every member of the dental team, and it concerns listening to your patients and giving them the answers they need. Check out his latest installment from ...

DrBicuspid's 2024 list of top 10 dental service organizations (DSOs) in the U.S. include Heartland Dental and MB2 Dental.

Some conditions can make people reluctant to show their smiles, such as tooth discoloration, missing teeth, and gingival hyperplasia, an overgrowth of the gums. Gingival hyperplasia affects not only ...

Recently, states in the U.S. made a new unlicensed dental auxiliary designation and instituted other changes that affect dental assistants, according to the Dental Assisting National Board's (DANB) ...

The list of the top 10 largest dental service organizations (DSOs) in the U.S. looks a lot like our list from 2022, with Heartland Dental, TAG - The Aspen Group, and Pacific Dental Services holding on ...

As a general dentist, I’ve noticed that thyroid medications come up again and again in my patients’ health histories. And with them come questions we’ve all asked at some point: Is it safe to use ...

Consolidation within any industry follows a predictable trajectory, and the dental sector is no exception. Drawing from Harvard Business Review's research on consolidation curves, we can ascertain ...

Besides striving to improve people’s oral health, working with patients, who have their quirks, is difficult at times. In an excerpt from her new book, Dr. Teresa Yang shares eight patient behaviors ...

“Once perio maintenance, always perio maintenance” is a perpetual coding myth that the CDT Current Dental Terminology Coding Companion (Page 184) dispelled in 2023. Even so, controversy continues to ...

As a practicing endodontist, I often get cases where the teeth are suspected of fractures and the dentist asks for my opinion on how to restore them. Understanding the nature of cracked teeth is ...