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Whether or not children receive regular dental care is strongly associated with their parents’ history of seeking dental care according to a report in the journal Pediatrics.

“When parents don’t see the dentist, their children are much less likely to see the dentist,” says Inyang Isong, MD, MPH, of the MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, the study’s lead author. “We also found that the…

Benva Lazar, D.M.D., 57, who operated a practice in South San Jose, was arrested in August after a girl told police he had fondled her breasts, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News. He ultimately pleaded no contest to felony sexual battery by fraud.

Last April, Lazar pleaded no contest to six misdemeanor charges in a plea bargain with the DA’s office. These related cases, dating to 2008,…

FORBA Holdings LLC, the parent company of the nationwide pediatric dental chain “Small Smiles,” that serves low-income children insured by Medicaid will pay $24 million that will go to federal and state governments to settle accusations that it provided unnecessary and substandard services, the Justice Department announced.

The Justice Department claimed that the dental clinics performed unnecessary procedures, including removing teeth, x-rays, and pulpotomies and then charged Medicaid.

The government’s investigation into…

Tiffany Holmes (Source: St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office)

Tiffany Holmes, 20, of Chalmette, LA was arrested by sheriff’s deputies after the dentist reported finding unauthorized prescriptions for pain pills had been written using his office computer system.

Holmes was booked on eight counts of obtaining controlled dangerous substances by fraud and deceit, said police. She was booked on Jan. 5 and since then, five others — including her father, a brother, the…