Legal Issues

Practice owners to pay $500K to settle kickback case

By Melissa Busch

A Connecticut dental practice and its dentist owners agreed to pay nearly $500,000 to settle kickback allegations.

May 13, 2025

Swallowed implant driver leads to major lawsuit

By Melissa Busch

A man claims negligence led him to swallow a dental implant driver that required surgery and led to disfigurement.

May 12, 2025

Healthy boy dies while sedated for dental treatment

By Melissa Busch

A boy died May 6 while under sedation for a dental procedure at a practice in Oklahoma.

May 9, 2025

Possibly pickled dentist sued for groping, botching smile

By Melissa Busch

A man is suing, claiming that a New York City dentist was “under the influence of some mind-altering substance” when she inappropriately touched him and left him with a crooked smile.

May 9, 2025

Texas investigating illegal marketing of fluoride toothpastes

By Melissa Busch

The attorney general in Texas has launched investigations into Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble for illegally marketing fluoride toothpaste.

May 9, 2025

Heartbreaking details of plane crash that killed dentist, wife

By Melissa Busch

The cause of the private plane crash in March that led to the death of a North Carolina dentist and his wife has been released.

May 8, 2025

Woman enters plea in fatal shooting of dental director

By Melissa Busch

The woman accused of fatally shooting a dentist and dental director during a dispute over loud music at an apartment complex in Wisconsin entered a plea.

May 7, 2025

Dental patient files suit over gouged tongue

By Melissa Busch

A man is suing a health center and other unnamed individuals, claiming that part of his tongue was gouged out during a dental procedure.

May 6, 2025

Swallowed dental scaler tip leads to lawsuit

By Melissa Busch

A dental patient is suing a dentist and a practice, claiming she swallowed a dislodged ultrasonic scaler that led to permanent injuries.

May 5, 2025

Ye accuses dentist of hooking him on nitrous oxide, plans to sue

By Melissa Busch

Ye, best known as Kanye West, and Bianca Censori, his wife, intend to file a malpractice lawsuit against his ex-dentist, claiming that he got the rapper addicted to laughing gas.

May 2, 2025

Secret dental practice bathroom camera leads to lawsuit, suicide

By Melissa Busch

Three women are suing the estate and former dental practice of a clinician who took his life after police began investigating him.

May 2, 2025

Oral surgeon accused in $3M loan scheme acquitted

By Melissa Busch

An oral surgeon accused of orchestrating a $3 million fraudulent loan scheme has been acquitted following a jury trial.

May 1, 2025

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