Dental Care

Free dental care draws big crowd Dentists provide fillings, extractions and cleanings
A Gainesville dental office opened its doors Friday to offer free care to more than 80 people in need.

Dental Safety Time: 2nd Annual Sedation Dentistry Safety Week Begins With Rededication to Patient Safety
Today marks the beginning of Dental Safety Time (DST), also known as the 2nd Annual Sedation Dentistry Safety Week. Each year DST encompasses five days dedicated to ensuring patients that sedation dentistry, a proven and increasingly popular method of receiving most dental care procedures, is not only comfortable and anxiety-free, it is also extraordinarily safe. (PRWeb Mar 15, 2010) Read the ...

Hundreds line up for free dental care
Up to two thousand Connecticut residents are expected to receive free dental care at a clinic in Middletown.

Salaried Dentists Echo Disappointment Of GDPs At Pay Award - British Dental Association
Leaders of dentists working in salaried primary care, hospitals and academia have echoed the disappointment already expressed by colleagues in general practice at the pay award announced for 2010/11. Salaried primary care dentists in England will be given just a one per cent pay increase for next year. Peter Bateman, Chair of the British Dental Association's Salaried Dentists Committee, said ...

Free dental check-ups in Westminster
Free check-ups worth £16.50 are on offer at dental practices across Westminster. Until the end of March, anyone who has not seen an NHS dentist for the last two years will be able to visit one of 17 clinics around the borough.

6 Day Dental and Orthodontics receives BBB’s Highest Rating
The 6 Day Dental and Orthodontics, a Coppell-based dental company founded by Dr. John Bond in 1989, announced that the Better Business Bureau of Dallas has issued an A+ rating to the organization, held since January 2003.

Georgia Dentist Uncovers Obscure Law That Helps Dental Patients With Severe Anxiety
Dr. David Kurtzman has discovered an obscure Georgia Law that forces insurance companies to cover Sedation Dentistry for Georgia Dental Patients with severe anxiety and other disorders. Dr. Kurtzman has been practicing Dentistry in Georgia for over 20 years and he just found out about the law so the general public knows little or nothing about "Senate Bill 66". (PRWeb Mar 15, 2010) Read the full ...

Dr. Irfan (Ivan) Atcha Gets Recognized as the Regional and a National Dental Implant Expert
About 240 million people worldwide are missing more than one tooth, and while only 10 million have opted for dental implants. Also, there are currently 32 million people in the US that wear dentures and 20 million have fit, function and appearance problems! The good news is that over the past decade dental implants have become the state-of-the-art way to permanently replace missing teeth ...

Free dental hygiene clinic needs volunteers to get teeth cleaned
Many people cringe at even the mention of going to the dentist’s office, and that's proving to be an obstacle for North Country dental hygiene students.

Hawk-I dental program hits snag
Iowa is offering a new dental-insurance plan for children from moderate-income families, but administrators can’t find many orthodontists willing to treat participating children who need braces to chew or speak properly.