DENTIST

An Anchorage dentist captured on video extracting a patient’s tooth as he rode a hoverboard was sentenced to 12 years for Medicaid fraud and other crimes, NBC News reports.

The coronavirus has hit the dental industry hard. Models last month from the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute predict dental spending could be down by as much as 38% by the end of 2020 and 20% in 2021.

The World Health Organization released updated coronavirus guidelines which recommend that all non-urgent dental visits be postponed until after the pandemic to reduce the spread.

Is it safe to visit the dentist during the COVID-19 pandemic

NBC Bay Area Investigation finds some dental offices reopening even though serious infection dangers may persist.

A dentist in Northwest D.C. who donated thousands of faces masks to help health care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic now finds himself in need. “I’m really frustrated because I feel unprotected,” said Dr. Adam Schwartz, a dentist at Brandywine Dental Care. Schwartz says his office has been busy with emergency dental work like root...

Hospitals and dentist offices in Virginia opened Friday to provide non-emergency services after they closing to safeguard against the coronavirus. Virginia’s Dental Association President Dr. Elizabeth Reynolds said they’ve been preparing over the last month and half to address issues with access to PPE and liability for healthcare workers. “The longer dental practices remain closed to preventative and non-emergency...

Half of the completed suicides in the United States in 2015 were carried out using a firearm, research shows. A program developed by gun owners and public health experts shows you can cut those numbers back with a simple approach.

Helping your kids keep their teeth clean and healthy could improve the overall health of their teeth as adults. News4’s Aaron Gilchrist reports.

An Alaska dentist accused of fraud and unnecessarily sedating patients also performed a procedure while riding a wheeled, motorized vehicle known as a hoverboard, authorities said. Prosecutors charged 34-year-old Seth Lookhart with felony Medicaid fraud and reckless endangerment. A former patient testified Wednesday at his trial that she was angered when an investigator showed her an unauthorized 2016 video of…

Robert Evans, the protean, fast-living Hollywood producer and former Paramount Pictures production chief who backed such seminal 1970s films as “Chinatown,” ”The Godfather” and “Harold and Maude,” has died. He was 89. Evans publicist, Monique Moss, confirmed that Evans died on Saturday. No other details Monday were immediately available.

The Xfinity Center at the University of Maryland has turned into a giant dental clinic this weekend. Aimee Cho reports about 1,000 dentists, hygenists and others teamed up with Catholic Charities to offer free full service dental care for underserved and uninsured people in Maryland.

Seven months after the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced plans to launch a start-of-the-art denture clinic in response to a Houston Chronicle investigation, inmates from across the system are starting to get some of the first sets of 3D-printed teeth ever made inside a U.S. prison.

A series of Facebook video ads for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign shows what appears to be a young woman strolling on a beach in Florida, a Hispanic man on a city street in Texas and a bearded hipster in a coffee shop in Washington, D.C., all making glowing, voice-over endorsements of the president. “I could not ask for a...

A mother is mourning after her only child, 27-year-old Brittany Burks, died in a crash on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Burks moved to the D.C. area from New York to study dentistry at Howard University.

Brittany Burks was in her car on the shoulder of Baltimore-Washington Parkway when a suspect slammed into her car, killing her. News4’s Pat Collins reports Burks was a student at Howard University and wanted to be a dentist.

A suspect on the run crashed into another car on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, killing another woman, police say. News4’s Pat Collins reports from the scene of the crash.

Federal authorities said Wednesday they have charged 60 people, including 31 doctors, for their roles in illegally prescribing and distributing millions of pills containing opioids and other dangerous drugs. U.S. Attorney Benjamin Glassman of Cincinnati described the action as the biggest known takedown yet of drug prescribers. Robert Duncan, U.S. attorney for eastern Kentucky, called the doctors involved “white-coated drug...

Former congressman Beto O’Rourke will not make another run at a U.S. Senate seat. NBC 5’s media partner The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday that O’Rourke has decided not to challenge incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in 2020.