Why Strengthening the Dental Hygienist Profession is Key to Solving Our Oral Health Crisis
Reinforcing educational standards will enable hygienists to perform more advanced procedures and raise the standard of care.
The Critical Role Payers Can Play in Closing the Oral Health Gap
Salivary testing represents more than a new tool; it’s a scalable strategy to shift care upstream, reduce preventable emergencies, and bring equity to a population too often left behind.
The Mechanics of a More Connected Healthcare Ecosystem [Video]
Arbiter’s Anjali Jameson on hospital and payer alignment.
AI-Based Simulation Training is Key to Solving Dentistry’s Procedural Skills Crisis
Giving dentists more hands-on training provides a platform for repeated practice, real-time feedback, and continuous improvement, helping prepare students with the confidence and consistency they need to succeed in patient care.
More than a Third of the US has Dental Anxiety. Here’s How New Technology is Improving Patient Trust
The integration of the latest technologies improves diagnostic quality and accelerates treatment solutions, decreasing the time patients spend in discomfort or pain due to dental issues.
How Technology Can Alleviate Dental Workforce Challenges
Current technology can't single-handedly solve all dental workforce issues, but there is much it can do to lighten the burden.
Dentistry’s Technological Revolution Is Transforming Patient Trust
The way dentistry has embraced technological innovation to make patient care both safer and more comfortable serves as an example for the rest of the healthcare sector.
Balancing the Role of Physicians and AI [Video]
At the ViVE conference in LA, Smarter Technologies Chief Medical Officer Ruben Amarasingham MD talked with Katie Adams about the company's larger goals for AI: to improve the accuracy of data and make healthcare less burdensome for physicians and clinicians.
HENRY the Dentist is bringing quality dentistry to the workplace
Since its launch in 2017, the mobile dentistry startup has signed up more than 70 customers including major enterprises like Merck, ADP and Vonage.
Startup Awrel brings secure messaging to dentistry and beyond
The company has been self-funded so far, but is in the process of securing venture capital, the CEO said.
Entrepreneurs think image analysis to detect plaque could revolutionize dentist visits
Can a mobile health app to automatically detect plaque and inflamed gums create better dental patients?
Mouth-numbing nasal spray could let dentists fill cavities in top teeth without an injection
Having a cavity filled could be a lot less unpleasant if St. Renatus LLC succeeds in getting FDA approval of its needle-free dental anesthetic. The Fort Collins, Colo., company recently completed phase 3 clinical trials of an anesthetic administered through the nasal cavity. Now it’s getting its data analysis ready for submission to the FDA […]
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RCM Outsourcing: Balancing Human Expertise & Smart Technology
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
Zuga Medical prepares to bring simplified dental implants to general dentists in 2013
The tens of millions of Americans who have at least one missing tooth have a few options. They can have the traditional bridge put in, have an implant put in, or do nothing. Despite the physical and health consequences associated with missing teeth, many people do nothing because of the cost or fear of restorative […]
Attention, shoppers: No health insurance? Doctors offer deals, reward points on this site
It’s become clear that healthcare consumers want to be able to see what they’re going to pay for a medical appointment before they go. And while insurance companies are starting to get on board with that, there’s still a gap for the $49 million Americans without health insurance. Enter Health In Reach, which wants to […]
Medical device to make braces work faster gets millions ahead of U.S. launch
An orthodontic device that uses micro-vibrations to quicken the movement of teeth in patients with braces is ready to be launched in the U.S. next month. In the meantime, its maker, OrthoAccel Technologies, is looking to raise $14.1 million. The company’s first product, AcceleDent, is a portable, rechargeable device that uses a mouthpiece to deliver […]
Integrating dental care with diabetes treatment saves money, improves outcomes
It has never made sense to me to that dental insurance is not included in comprehensive medical insurance. Maybe it’s because dental care was originally seen as mainly cosmetic or because dentists aren’t medical doctors. I suspect there’s also concern about adding dental insurance to medical coverage due to the added cost. In any case, […]
eDossea the latest to take electronic dental record sharing to the cloud
What cloud-based health information exchange providers like AT&T, Verizon and DR Systems are doing for health systems, eDossea aims to do for dentist offices. The cloud-based, file-sharing and storage platform is designed specifically to enable dentists, specialists and oral surgeons to share electronic dental records in the form of patient information, X-rays and follow-up reports […]