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The Ohio State Dental Board is requiring all dentists to complete two hours of continuing education on opioid prescribing and related issues. The rule requires two hours of CE for this and the next biennium in order for dentists to renew their license in Ohio. The current biennium ends on Dec. 31, 2021, and dentists must complete this requirement ... [continue reading]

The ODA has been working hard on your behalf during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve advocated for your practice and your patients We testified in favor of a new law that protects health care professionals, including dentists, and businesses from unforeseen liability arising out of the pandemic. We have urged insurance companies to cover ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Dental Association has retained 94.15%.of its 2020 membership, which is down slightly from last year. Moreover, 14 of its 25 local component dental societies have retained 95% or more of their 2020 membership. Following is a list of those societies: Rehwinkel Dental Society 98.67% Maumee Valley Dental Society 97.96% Western ... [continue reading]

I am humbled, honored and grateful to serve our profession, our ODA. We are blessed with outstanding leadership and a team of professionals at our headquarters in Columbus. It also is great to work with dedicated volunteer leaders amongst colleagues who also serve and inspire. And we continue to be successful for dentistry and our patients with a ... [continue reading]

In 1962, Dr. Fred Bronson graduated from Howard University College of Dentistry and returned to the Cincinnati area where he was born and raised. He spent a couple of years providing dental care for children in the Cincinnati Public Schools and then opened his own private dental practice. Dr. Fred Bronson joined organized dentistry (American ... [continue reading]

As we come to the end of 2021 it is important to recap the year at the statehouse and look ahead to the coming year. As crazy as 2020 was, 2021 has also been full of challenges due to the pandemic that is still going on throughout the world. The ODA lobby team has been very busy this year. In the beginning of 2021, which seems like much longer ... [continue reading]

Last month’s Dental Insurance Corner discussed a letter that was recently sent from a major dental insurer to numerous Ohio dentists concerning their practices’ utilization patterns. Insurance companies utilize auto-adjudication to process more claims than ever. Auto-adjudication is the automated process of paying or denying claims quickly ... [continue reading]

Every time we fly, we hear flight attendants reciting their variation on the FAA oxygen mask rule. “Should the cabin lose pressure, oxygen masks will drop from the overhead compartment. Please place the mask over your own mouth and nose before assisting others.” We’ve heard these instructions so many times that it doesn’t register for ... [continue reading]

Many of you know that for the past one year I have been on a personal transformational path. While the physical is obvious, the mental is what I want to talk about here. Between turning 50 last December and COVID stress eating, I had put myself in an unhealthy place. I avoided mirrors, stopped getting on my scale and hid behind layers of ... [continue reading]

The ADA is considered America’s leading advocate for oral health. My concern is that in setting policies or standards for our profession not based in true science but politicized information of the CDC we will lose our autonomy. Everyone has the personal right to make a choice based on their age, health status and other influences such as ... [continue reading]