Dear DrBicuspid Member,
Texas officials are giving up on recovering most of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on questionable Medicaid dental and orthodontic procedures. After years of an ongoing scandal over fraudulent billing and courtroom losses, the commission that oversees Medicaid has offered settlements for a fraction of the claimed damages. Read Features Editor Donna Domino's article here.
Children exposed to tobacco smoke at 4 months had an almost twofold increase in the risk of caries in their deciduous teeth in a new study from Japan. The findings support increasing public health and clinical interventions to limit exposure to secondhand smoke, according to the researchers. Read more here.
Digital dentistry has only penetrated a small part of the dental market for now, but Rich Motto, the founder and CEO of CadBlu, believes that is going to change. At the recent 2015 Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo in Silicon Valley, he explained trends that are shaping digital dentistry's immediate future. Read Assistant Editor Theresa Pablos' article here.
Dentists who graduated with higher debt were less likely to specialize and more likely to enter private practice than other primary occupations, according to the findings of a new survey in the Journal of the American Dental Association. Read more here.
Less than one week to go in the nominating process for the DrBicuspid.com Dental Excellence Awards. Nominations end midnight on November 5, so cast your nominations here.
We're headed to Washington, DC, next week to cover the ADA's annual meeting. If there's a particular session or new product you are curious about, let us know.
