ADA News

Some dental patients may present with a range of medical complexities. The ADA Practical Guide to Patients with Medical Conditions provides a comprehensive resource that addresses these challenges that may affect dental treatment.

When it comes to ensuring that expectant mothers are receiving needed oral health care, there's good news and bad news.

The ADA Council on Dental Benefit Programs staff has taken several complaints in the past few months from dentists who submitted claims to MetLife only to have them denied because the company said the dentists did not hold active licenses.

Washington—Dental leaders and members of Congress talked of "compromise" and "frustration" at the May 13-15 Washington Leadership Conference. Some 550 dentists and state dental leaders registered for the annual springtime event in the nation's capital.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will hold a National Provider Call on the National Physician Payment Transparency Program.

Washington—ADA's Action for Dental Health campaign launch drew widespread media attention.

Branson, Mo.—Four members of the Alliance of the American Dental Association were honored April 19 during the AADA's annual conference in Branson, Mo., with the Beulah K. Spencer Service Award.

The Affordable Care Act falls short in lowering dental care costs, increasing access to care and improving health outcomes, according to research briefs published by the ADA Health Policy Resources Center.

Wheaton, Ill.—Filling a void left when the DuPage Community Clinic closed its dental facility in 2011, leaving uninsured patients with few local options, the Chicago Dental Society Foundation has opened a new dental clinic to serve patients in need.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia—A connection with a former dental student at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry offered Dr. Lance Lambert a chance to treat children with complicated medical issues more than 7,000 miles from his Glen Ellyn, Ill. pediatric dental office.