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Membership in organized dentistry provides numerous benefits, from savings on products and services used in dental offices to CE offerings and networking opportunities. However, your membership also offers you access to valuable information on a variety of issues, including legal and regulatory compliance. The Ohio Dental Association legal ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Dental Association has received a number of calls recently from dental practices asking if they could submit claims to third-party payers for an exam when the dentist is not physically present in the office at the time of the patient's visit. The callers reported they had either been told it was acceptable to bill for an exam in this type ... [continue reading]

For the average solo or small group practitioner, what is your first reaction to the word “DSO?” Corporate dentistry. Aggressive treatment planning. Forceful sales tactics. High pressure financing. Non-dentists dictating clinical care. Perhaps one or all of these comes to mind. But to a new dentist who is graduating with enormous debt ... [continue reading]

Too many years ago, I served on the volunteer board of a state epilepsy association and had my eyes opened to the psychosocial issues faced by persons with seizures. The loss of dignity when an adult with seizures is arrested because he or she experienced a seizure on the street and was assumed to be intoxicated was a scenario I had never ... [continue reading]

As most of you know, Mother’s Day has just passed. While we all may not be mothers, we all have one. I’ve been a dentist longer than I’ve been a mother, and in some ways, I think dentistry has prepared me well to be a parent. Working through a busy schedule is about as multi-tasky as it gets, (who hasn’t done payroll while ... [continue reading]

Ohio Dental Association President Dr. Chris Connell, a general dentist from Lyndhurst, issued the following statement regarding the proposal to legalize dental therapists in Ohio: “Allowing undertrained individuals to perform irreversible surgical procedures would be detrimental to the oral health of Ohioans and would be an unnecessary ... [continue reading]

Rep. Hearcel Craig (D-Columbus) meets with Dr. Canise Bean, Dr. Kara Morris, Dr. Homa Amini and OSU dental student Alan George at this year's ODA Day at the Statehouse. About 145 dentists, dental residents, students and spouses met with their state senators and representatives at the 2016 ODA Day at the Statehouse. “I was very glad to see ... [continue reading]

The Alliance to the American Dental Association held its AADA Conference 2016 in Cleveland in April. The national conference was last held in Cleveland in 1993. “As AADA president, I had an opportunity to suggest where I would like to hold Conference 2016, and I naturally wanted to bring it HOME,” said Sue Gardner, president of the ... [continue reading]

In the dental profession, there are very few subjects more polarizing than amalgam separators and amalgam waste. Which begs the question … why? Since the passing of the Clean Water Act in the 1970s, it has been the policy of the United States that “Pollution should be prevented or reduced at the source whenever feasible; pollution ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Good DEED (Dedicated to Environmental Excellence in Dentistry) Program continues to expand as it celebrates its sixth anniversary. The voluntary program is a collaboration between the Ohio Dental Association and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to recognize dental offices for implementing simple, innovative solutions to reduce ... [continue reading]