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Dental health care personnel can use the mobile application CDC DentalCheck to periodically assess their practices and ensure they are meeting the minimum expectations for safe care.

Practice owners, get your office(s) on track to earn workers' compensation premium refunds by signing up for WSDA Retro by June 1.

As your practice grows, your earnings increase, or your family gains new members, your insurance needs to increase as well. Washington Dentists’ Insurance Agency recommends that all dentists review their insurance coverage at least once each year to determine if what they currently have meets their present and future needs.

Last year, as part of the Memorandum of Understanding between WSDA and Delta Dental of Washington (DDWA), the two organizations launched a Workforce Taskforce to identify and implement impactful solutions to the workforce shortage.

The Dental Quality Assurance Commission (DQAC) will hold its next business meeting on Friday, April 29 at 8:30 AM.

The Board of Denturists – Special Topics Committee is holding a series of rules workshops to amend the denturist infection control rules (WAC 246-812-501 - Purpose) and to propose new rules for prefabricated implant abutments.

The ADA’s award-winning New Dentist Now blog is seeking contributors interested in writing about their experiences and insights on the unique challenges facing early career dentists who graduated from dental school fewer than 10 years ago.

Dental insurance and student debt reform. Improving Medicaid. Health equity.​ Explore some of the top issues the ADA is advocating for in 2022.

WSDA tracked several bills this session concerning dental-specific issues, health care, small business issues, employer/employee matters, and much more. Read a summary of passed legislation that may impact you as a provider, business owner, employer, or employee.

The next DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, which aims to provide a way to dispose of prescription drugs in a safe and responsible way, will be held on Saturday, April 30.

Learn more about updates to unemployment insurance relief, Long-Term Services and Supports Trust (LTSS) program reporting, and standard occupational classification reporting.

The ADA is now accepting applications for the 2022-2023 class of its Institute for Diversity in Leadership. Apply by April 30.

Dr. Linda Edgar's dental career, both as a dentist and as a volunteer within organized dentistry, is an impressive one, including successful leadership positions at the state, regional, and national levels. But her accomplishments outside of dentistry — as an adoptive mother, an author, a middle- and high-school teacher, a record-setting distance runner, a triathlete, and a cancer survivor — are every bit as impressive and revealing.

Dr. Jeff Parrish and Dr. Brittany Dean, members of the WSDA Editorial Advisory Board, have been discussing organized dentistry’s role in and philosophy around political giving. Is there a line when a candidate, no matter how much they have done for dentistry, is inappropriate to support? Is this line applied evenly and to both sides of the aisle? Read their thoughts in this "intergenerational chat."

Dentists who received funds during the second phase of the Provider Relief Fund have until 11:59 PM ET March 31 to submit a report on the use of those funds in the Provider Relief Fund Reporting Portal.

The Small Business Administration is extending deferments for COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans to 30 months from the date of approval.

Congratulations to WSDA member Dr. Harlyn Susarla for being named an American Dental Association 10 Under 10 Award winner.

The Olympia Union Gospel Mission will hold its annual benefit concert, which supports the Mission's no-fee dental clinic, on Saturday, May 21.