Week in Review: Laffer on DSOs; SCOTUS declines Conn. case; Burris on CE meetings

Dear DrBicuspid Member,

One of the most decorated and thoughtful economists of the last 50 years, Arthur Laffer, PhD, writes about children's dental health and dental service organizations (DSOs) offering economies of scale to create a free-market solution to address the pediatric dental care gap.

A Connecticut law restricting nondentists from shining light-emitting diode teeth-whitening lights on customers' teeth survived a challenge after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case. Read Features Editor Donna Domino's article here.

Any specialist or general practitioner will relate to Dr. Benjamin Burris' latest column. As demographics change, competition increases, and the price of attending a traditional continuing education conference increases, Dr. Burris raises the question of how dental associations will react to these changes and what best serves their member dentists.

In this Second Opinion, Frank Capaldo, the executive director of the Georgia Dental Association, gives the association's side of the issue surrounding the defeat of a bill in the Georgia Legislature that would have allowed dental hygienists in the state to provide preventive care without the direct supervision of a dentist.

It's been an eventful week at DrBicuspid.com, as, along with the four features highlighted above, we've run a Breaking News Alert on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's black box warning on opioids and practical, thoughtful practice management columns from Dr. Roger P. Levin and Jay Geier; and those are only the features we have room for in this newsletter. Thanks for being a member and telling your colleagues about DrBicuspid.com.