Week in Review: Time to update your CDT codes | DSOs & private equity | Top small cities

Dear DrBicuspid Member,

Have you updated the Codes on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (CDT) that your practice uses? Now is a good time, practice management consultant Teresa Duncan writes because using inactive codes can be costly to your practice.

The past six months has seen continued growth in the dental service organization (DSO) market, including some major acquisitions and milestones. To get a sense of where these organizations are going, DrBicuspid.com interviewed Michael Roub, managing partner at Inflection 360, to find out about the future of DSOs and private equity's role in this future.

You're a newly minted dentist, excited to start practicing the skills you worked so hard to master in school, but you have some student loan debt. Where should you practice? A new report suggests it might be easier in some cities than others.

Finally this week, researchers have created a mobile application that monitors patients during their daily routine. The prototype may one day help clinicians diagnosis and monitor bruxism, temporomandibular disorder, and other jaw-related disorders outside of the clinic.

We're off on Monday and will resume our normal publishing schedule on Tuesday.