Author: Todd Odenweller

The Ohio Dental Association Rising Star Award recognizes a young leader in dentistry with outstanding leadership and initiative and a strong commitment to volunteerism within the community and the profession. Past award winners often continue on to become leaders of organized dentistry on the local, state and national level. Dr. Matt Messina, a ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Dental Association Rising Star Award recognizes a young leader in dentistry with outstanding leadership and initiative and a strong commitment to volunteerism within the community and the profession. Past award winners often continue on to become leaders of organized dentistry on the local, state and national level. Dr. Ronald Lemmo, a ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Dental Association Rising Star Award recognizes a young leader in dentistry with outstanding leadership and initiative and a strong commitment to volunteerism within the community and the profession. Past award winners often continue on to become leaders of organized dentistry on the local, state and national level. Dr. Billie Sue Kyger, ... [continue reading]

In today's marketplace a dentist establishing a practice or trying to improve upon an existing practice faces several challenges to attract new patients. Among those challenges are regulatory and legal restrictions on how a dentist can attract new patients. The Ohio State Dental Board has developed a regulatory scheme governing how a dentist may ... [continue reading]

Since it's passage in 2009, dentists across the country have asked, "What impact does the ACA have on me and my practice?" I have been wondering the same thing, so decided to do a little research. There are still many unknowns, but I have been able to pull out a few items that I think will be useful to my colleagues. First, to address dentists as ... [continue reading]

If you read my presidential messages faithfully (don’t worry, I can get you back copies), you know that I believe access to care for all Ohioans is our biggest challenge as an association, whether we want it or not! I hope we have all moved past the cynicism that the oncologists aren’t blamed for cancer or the cardiologists for heart ... [continue reading]

Next month, the ODA House of Delegates will hold at its annual two-day meeting in conjunction with the ODA Annual Session in Columbus.  The meetings will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel near the Columbus Convention Center on Sept. 11–12.  The House of Delegates, as the legislative and governing body, is the supreme authority of ... [continue reading]

Tramadol and products containing tramadol will be classified as Schedule IV controlled substances starting Aug. 18. The Ohio State Board of Pharmacy recommends that prescribers take an inventory of their current stock of tramadol and products containing tramadol before Aug. 18. After this time, all tramadol products must be part of the controlled ... [continue reading]

Lydia Lancaster, a dental student at The Ohio State University, and Kristina Wolf, a dental student at Case Western Reserve University, each won an Award of Excellence from the American Student Dental Association (ASDA). The award recognizes one student from each dental school for achieving superior levels of participation or leadership in service ... [continue reading]

RAC stands for Recovery Audit Contractor and is a little-known provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires states to perform audits of its Medicaid providers. The intent is to weed out fraud and inappropriate billing for services, even with no malicious or fraudulent intent, and return that money to the state and federal government. ... [continue reading]