Amid the trends affecting dentistry in 2025 -- including AI innovation, staff shortages, and rising costs -- a handful of articles stood out to DrBicuspid’s readers.
From a lighthearted gold tooth mystery to lawsuits and data breaches, here’s what DrBicuspid readers read the most, ranked in order from 5 to 1, in 2025.
5. Gold tooth dropped in Salvation Army kettle ... again
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In November, a donor anonymously dropped a gold tooth into a Salvation Army Red Kettle in Arizona. This is the second time in recent years that a gold tooth has been donated at this site.
4. Colgate resolves illegal marketing of fluoride toothpaste claim
Colgate-Palmolive agreed to alter its packaging and marketing of kids’ fluoride toothpaste in response to an investigation by the Texas attorney general’s office that accused the company of illegally advertising its products to parents and children.
Last May, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent civil investigative demands to Colgate and Crest asserting that “toothpaste manufacturers continue to flavor their products and deceptively market them in ways that encourage kids to ingest fluoride toothpaste and mislead their parents to use far more than the safe and recommended amount of fluoride toothpaste.”
3. How the wrong adviser can sabotage your dental practice transition
Kim McCleskey.Kim McCleskey/Professional Transition Strategies.
Selling a dental practice is one of the most significant financial and professional decisions a dentist can make. Yet, wrote Kim McCleskey back in March 2025, many practice owners unknowingly sabotage their transitions by relying on advisers who may lack dental industry-specific expertise.
As a result, practice owners risk undervaluation, poor deal terms, and lost opportunities that could cost them a substantial portion of their practice's value.
2. Henry Schein One, Vyne Dental sue each other
Last October, revenue cycle management (RCM) service provider Vyne Dental and Henry Schein subsidiary Henry Schein One sued and countersued each other over access to information through Schein’s practice management software Dentrix.
Vyne accuses Henry Schein One of blocking information under the Cures Act, claiming that Henry Schein One is attempting to force users to stop using Trellis, Vyne's RCM platform. Henry Schein One claims Vyne committed computer fraud in violation of the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Lanham Act, and the Electronic and Communications Privacy Act.
1. Delta Dental of Va. hit with breach, affecting 146K
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Earlier this month, Delta Dental of Virginia notified members that it experienced a data security incident possibly affecting the personal information, including Social Security numbers and health data, of about 146,000 people.
Delta Dental has no proof that the potentially affected data were misused, according to a press release. However, as soon as the breach was discovered, the company implemented security measures to prevent the risk of a similar incident occurring again.
