Ever since the first dental school was founded in the United States in 1840, dentistry and medicine have been taught as — and viewed as — two separate professions. That artificial division is bad for ...

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It can be frustrating to pay out of pocket for expensive dental procedures when you already have excellent medical insurance. Why is dental insurance separate? There are several reasons related to the ...

My colleague Stef Kotsonis stops me in the hall at work every few weeks with a new pearl of health care wisdom. Last week, it began with the story of three teeth that had to come out. "I’m getting ...

Medical debt associated with increase in probability of deferred dental care, medical care, mental health care ...

On December 5, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued its final regulations regarding the medical device tax, implemented as part of the Affordable Care Act. And despite strong lobbying by ...

UCSF School of Dentistry students access the “APeX Wisdom module,” part of a new electronic health record system developed by EPIC Systems, on the first day the software was used in the UCSF dental ...

Pacific Dental Services (PDS), one of the leading dental and medical support organizations in the U.S., has announced the grand opening of its first co- located dental-medical practice in partnership ...