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Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise with Stark County Dental Society Past President Dr. K. "Ragu" Ragunanthan at the Stark County Dental Society's event A Salute to Veterans with Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise. The Stark County Dental Society received the 2017 Membership Award Program for Success (MAP for Success) Most Innovative Recruitment ... [continue reading]

Dr. Shannon Oswald, a resident with the Mercy Medical Center GPR Program, provided free care to Roy Jones through a grant from the ODA Foundation. Thanks to an Ohio Dental Association Foundation grant and Mercy Dental Services, a Canton man received extensive dental treatment for severe cavities, boney growths and dentures. The phrase “enjoy ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Dental Association Foundation has recently teamed up with Kroger Community Rewards to create a new way for dentists to support the foundation, without having to spend any extra money. Dentists, students, residents and spouses can now support the Foundation simply by shopping at Kroger. The ODA Foundation receives donations from Kroger ... [continue reading]

Dr. Ihor Suszko is a recipient of one of the 2017 Ohio Dental Association Marvin Fisk Humanitarian Awards. Dr. Ihor Suszko is founder and president of the Cap Haitien Dental Institute, an oral health care center and professional continuing education center in Haiti. In recognition of his efforts, he will receive an Ohio Dental Association Marvin ... [continue reading]

Best Card is the credit card processor for thousands of dental offices, and in the past few years we have received a notable increase in calls from our merchants relating to suspected fraud and embezzlement. It CAN happen to ANYONE. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) is a U.S. non-profit group founded to assist victims and to educate the ... [continue reading]

You are viewed by your staff and your patients as the trusted source of knowledge on all things dental. It is a daunting task sometimes in a world that is changing so quickly. Over my nearly four decades of practice I have seen the science of dental materials explode with new innovations and techniques, witnessed the dawn of digital dentistry, and ... [continue reading]

The ODA's Task Force on Auxiliary Utilization and Access to Care continues to research and develop proposals related to enhancing access to dental care in Ohio, better utilizing the existing dental team, and modernizing Ohio’s dental laws to reflect advancements in technology.  In recent years, the task force’s work has led to ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Dental Association continues to receive calls from Ohio dentists who are the subject of some form of elevated third-party payer scrutiny. While this scrutiny goes by different names, e.g., audit, focused review, utilization review, it typically causes a degree of angst and extra work for the involved dentist. One common area of ... [continue reading]

After 30 years in private practice, I have accepted a new opportunity.  This month, I will join the faculty of the College of Dentistry at The Ohio State University.  I will be teaching both in pre-clinical and clinical settings, as well as becoming the director of the new Outpatient Care clinic in Upper Arlington.  Planning to ... [continue reading]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released a rule that will require most dental offices to install amalgam separators. The date for compliance for most dentists will be July 14, 2020. The EPA originally issued a final rule in December 2016; however, the White House froze all new or pending federal regulations in January. The final ... [continue reading]