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The Ohio Dental Association is issuing a call for nominations for the position of Seventh District Trustee of the American Dental Association’s Board of Trustees. The ADA Board of Trustees, the managing body of the ADA, consists of one Trustee from each of the 17 Trustee Districts within the ADA. The states of Ohio and Indiana comprise the ... [continue reading]

A call for nominations is now extended for dentist 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 possible dentist board member openings on the Ohio State Dental Board (OSDB), which may be vacant in April 2023. The board member positions ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Dental Association seeks members to fill potential upcoming at-large positions on ODA councils. The ODA is seeking nominations for at-large positions on the association’s Council on Access to Care and Public Service, Council on Dental Care Programs and Dental Practice, and Council on Membership Services. Nominations for these ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Dental Association is seeking nominations for its 2023 Awards of Excellence program. The ODA’s Awards of Excellence program recognizes those who offer distinguished service to dentistry and improve oral health care by offering treatment, outreach or education. Members and local dental societies are encouraged to nominate those they ... [continue reading]

I recently attended an Oral Health Symposium in Springfield put together by Oral Health Ohio. Dr. Renee Joskow, senior advisor to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, spoke to the current health inequities in our country and to the Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health recently published. Some takeaways included the ... [continue reading]

Last month’s election led to a closely divided U.S. House of Representatives, where the Republicans gained a slight majority, and a closely divided U.S. Senate, where the Democrats retained a slight advantage. While the results of these Congressional elections generate most of the headlines, the election results related to the Ohio Statehouse ... [continue reading]

As 2022 comes to a close, so does the 134th Ohio General Assembly. When January comes around, the 135th will begin a new legislative session. January will bring more than 30 new legislators to Columbus out of the 132 in the Statehouse. This means that a little over a quarter of the next general assembly has very little or no knowledge about ... [continue reading]

Question: Can a dentist who is not under contract to an insurance company be forced to accept the insurer’s allowed fee solely because the dentist accepted assignment of benefits from the patient? Answer: Providing nothing else is going on, no. Just as a patient/subscriber and a dentist cannot obligate an insurance company or other ... [continue reading]

As we near the end of another year, this is a time of reflection for me. Around the dental school, we are putting the final touches on another admissions cycle and it is time for us to plan next year with 120 new members of our profession. I have a busy spring ahead, as I am the course director for two courses: Practice Management for the third ... [continue reading]

Being a dentist, I always thought we were natural born leaders. We lead our teams at work. We often take on volunteer roles in our ... [continue reading]