A "historical-sociological account intended to introduce the reader to major components of a dentist's career and how it grew out of American society."

A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist recounts the story of how the criminal justice system allowed this to happen, and of how two men, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West, built successful careers on the back of that structure. For nearly two decades, Hayne, a medical examiner, performed the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his friend Dr. West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart. Here, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi's death investigation system -- a relic of the Jim Crow era -- failed to deliver justice for its citizens. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial issues.

Why are Americans so uniquely obsessed with teeth? Brilliantly white, straight teeth? Making the American Mouth is at once a history of United States dentistry and a study of a billion-dollar industry. Alyssa Picard chronicles the forces that limited Americans' access to dental care in the early twentieth century and the ways dentists worked to expand that access--and improve the public image of their profession. Comprehensive in scope, this work describes how dentists' early public health commitments withered under the strain of fights over fluoride, mid-century social movements for racial and gender equity, and pressure to insure dental costs. It explains how dentists came to promote cosmetic services, and why Americans were so eager to purchase them. As we move into the twentyfirst century, dentists' success in shaping their industry means that for many, the perfect American smile will remain a distant--though tantalizing--dream.

Provides legal guidance for dental practice formation, marketing, employment, privacy and data security, disability access, contracts, antitrust, insurance, collections, reimbursement, patient treatment, and more. Covers the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, website accessibility, online ratings sites, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Includes sample agreements for associateships.

Dentistry goes beyond providing excellent oral care to patients. It also requires an accurate record of the care that was delivered, making CDT codes an essential part of dentists’ everyday business. 2022 code changes include: 16 new codes, 14 revisions, 6 deletions, and the 8 codes adopted in March 2021 regarding vaccine administration and molecular testing for a public health related pathogen. CDT 2022 contains new codes for: Previsit patient screenings; Fabricating, adjusting and repairing sleep apnea appliances; Intracoronal and extracoronal splints; Immediate partial dentures; Rebasing hybrid prostheses; Removal of temporary anchorage devices. Also includes alphabetic and numeric indices and ICD 10 CM codes related to dental procedures. CDT codes are developed by the ADA and are the only HIPAA recognized code set for dentistry. Includes app and ebook access.