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Don Sabol, Medicaid health system administrator for the Ohio Department of Medicaid, is the 2017 recipient of the Ohio Dental Association Achievement Award Don Sabol, Medicaid health system administrator for the Ohio Department of Medicaid, has been an advocate for patients in need as well as dentists over the last 15 years. In recognition of his ... [continue reading]

A well-defined office manual can be of great benefit to a dental practice. Employment issues are some of the most difficult matters to confront as a small-business owner. Oftentimes, the best way for employer dentists to avoid the common problems that arise with employees is to establish an office employee manual. Establishing an employee manual ... [continue reading]

Over the past year the Ohio Dental Association has received an increased number of calls from dentists who are the subject of some form of elevated third-party payer scrutiny relative to their use of the periodontal scaling and root planing procedure codes (D4341 and D4342). While this scrutiny goes by different names, e.g., audit, focused review, ... [continue reading]

Like most of you, I have become increasingly annoyed at the way the profession of dentistry is portrayed in the series of advertisements currently being aired by Aspen Dental.  While I “get it” that they are trying to be funny, I am concerned that the Aspen ads perpetuate negative stereotypes of dentists, the practice of ... [continue reading]

In the Sunday, July 23, 2017 “New York Times” (NYT), reporter Sheila Kaplan front-paged the relationship of the new CDC Director Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald with Coca Cola, which yielded a million dollars to fight childhood obesity, a childhood health ill squarely attributed to consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. Public health ... [continue reading]

Dr. Catherine Flaitz, division chief of dentistry at Nationwide Children's Hospital, speaks in favor of House Bill 184 before the House Health Committee. Several ODA member dentists testified before the House Health Committee in June in favor of legislation to improve access to dental care in Ohio. Dr. Patrick Lloyd, dean of The Ohio State ... [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]