Category: OSDB

To the Members of the Ohio Dental Association: I understand that some of you have recently received factually inaccurate information regarding the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. Senate Bill 40, which includes the Compact, passed the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives with overwhelming bipartisan support and was signed into law ... [continue reading]

Dr. Joseph Crowley has a long and distinguished career in organized dentistry. Among his many offices, he has served as president of both the Ohio Dental Association (2005-06) and the American Dental Association (2017-18). In 2019, following the end of his term as ADA president, Crowley was appointed chair of the Coalition for Modernizing Dental ... [continue reading]

The Ohio State Dental Board has been considering significant changes to their rules related to dental specialty designation and advertising. The OSDB is planning to hold interested party meetings on Dec. 2, 2024, and Jan. 13, 2025, on these issues. For more details on attending these meetings, please contact Eric Richmond, ODA Director of Legal ... [continue reading]

A call for nominations is now extended for dental specialist board member positions on the Ohio State Dental Board. The Ohio Dental Association has the opportunity to recommend nominees to the governor of Ohio for dental specialist board member openings on the Ohio State Dental Board (OSDB). The ODA Executive Committee is seeking potential ... [continue reading]

In September, the Ohio State Dental Board floated a new proposed set of rules that would effectively end state protection of the public related to false claims of dental specialty status in advertising. The proposed rules would remove any criteria for specialty status or specialty-granting organizations and would merely require that anyone ... [continue reading]

A call for nominations is now extended for dental specialist board member positions on the Ohio State Dental Board. The Ohio Dental Association has the opportunity to recommend nominees to the governor of Ohio for dental specialist board member openings on the Ohio State Dental Board (OSDB). The ODA Executive Committee is seeking potential ... [continue reading]

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently appointed two new members and reappointed one member to the Ohio State Dental Board. Dr. Cathy Graves, a general dentist in Mason, was appointed to her first term on the board. She earned her DDS from the University of Texas Health Science Center in 1997. Graves has served as a delegate to the Ohio Dental ... [continue reading]

Please be aware that there is a ring of impostors pretending to be employed by the Ohio State Dental Board who are trying to scam dentists out of money. They are calling from what appears to be the Dental Board’s phone lines. They are further threatening to revoke dental licenses and even going to the extent of requesting immediate monetary ... [continue reading]

Gov. Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 40 into law on July 24. This important legislation prohibits dental insurance companies from setting fees for non-covered services and improves professional practice portability by entering into the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Licensure ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Dental Association has long had policies in support of dental licensure reform and freedom of movement for dentists between states. In fact, when I was first hired at the ODA way back in 1994 as the director of legal and legislative services, the ODA hosted a national symposium on dental licensure reform that included leaders from ... [continue reading]