A locum tenens is a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another and a locum tenens dentist is a dentist who works in the place of the regular dentist when that dentist is absent. The ADA’s new Locum Tenens and Dentistry guide discusses how dental benefit plans should be notified and what information on billing and additional insurance considerations is needed to be provided to plans when locum tenens dentists are employed. 

In addition, an archived ADA webinar, Locum Tenens Dentists: Opportunities Abound, features a dentist who needed a replacement doctor and the dentist who provided locum tenens services.

Read the Guide