Delta cutting reimbursement rates again; can a smile be quantified?

Dear DrBicuspid Member,

When Delta Dental announced last year that it was reducing reimbursement rates in Washington and Idaho, dental practitioners across the U.S. worried that this move was the beginning of a trend that would spread to other states.

Now it appears those fears were founded, after Delta revealed that it is cutting reimbursement rates in two more states. Click here to read which states and what prompted Delta's decision.

In other Practice Management Community news, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is once again putting a spotlight on the country's oral health disparities. The report used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to assess the prevalence of untreated caries, existing dental restorations, dental sealants, and edentulism in the U.S. by age, race/ethnicity, and poverty level, and some of the findings might surprise you. Read more.

Finally, in Cosmetics Community news, can a smile be quantified? A team of German researchers has identified seven quantifiable parameters that can be used in the assessment of dentofacial aesthetics, according to a literature review that looked at how aesthetics can be evaluated in restorative dentistry.