The Washington State Dental Quality Assurance Commission (DQAC) will hold its next Dental Infection Control Committee Meeting on Friday, January 12 at 9:30 a.m. Please consider attending the meeting or submit comments on proposed dental infection control rules by Monday, January 8.

"Evidence-based Dental Pain Care: A New Opioid Prescribing Guideline from Washington State," a free half-day dental conference on opioid prescribing in Washington, has been postponed to a later date.

For years, three dental suppliers — Henry Schein Dental, Patterson Dental, and Benco Dental — have held a substantial market share in the dental supply market across the United States. Together, they have roughly 75 percent of the market, the remaining 25 percent is divvied up among regional players around the country. That may all be about to change.

WSDA member Dr. Joe Vaughn reflects on 2017 and his first full year as a new dentist.

The WSDA Relief Fund recently sent a donation of $20,000 to the ADA Foundation Emergency Grant program to help dentists who were victims of the recent hurricanes in Florida, Puerto Rico, and Texas.

Register now for "Evidence-based Dental Pain Care: A New Opioid Prescribing Guideline from Washington State," a half-day, 4 CE credit dental conference in Seattle on January 8 or Spokane on January 9.

Under Initiative 1433 (I-1433), passed by Washington voters in 2016, employers will be required to provide paid sick leave beginning on January 1, 2018.

National Brush Day® is November 1, the day after Halloween! Join the Kids’ Healthy Mouths Campaign to promote the importance for kids to brush two minutes, twice a day, every day.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid on Nov. 16 announced proposed changes to Medicare drug plans, including rescinding the requirement that dentists enroll in or validly opt-out of Medicare in order for a Part D drug prescriptions to be covered.

WSDA members, register today for Dental Action Day, held in Olympia on Thursday, January 25, 2018.

Developed by the Dr. Robert Bree Collaborative and Washington State Agency Medical Directors’ Group in collaboration with actively practicing dentists and public stakeholders, the final Dental Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for Acute Pain Management was released in September 2017.

See the current lineup of dental speakers for the Pacific Northwest Dental Conference, and make sure to mark your calendars for June 21-23, 2018!

WSDA members, text the word "WSDA" to the phone number 52886 to ​sign up for WSDA's new advocacy alert text system.

The Dental Quality Assurance Commission (DQAC) will hold conference calls on November 21 and 22.

Thank you to each and every ​dentist who was a member of the WSDA in 2017! 2018 membership renewal season is now underway.

WSDA member Dr. Craig Neal shares his opinion regarding recently vetoed bylaw amendments by Delta Dental's leadership.

Learn about changes to this year's Individual Medical Annual Open Enrollment Period (OEP) from the experts at Washington Dentists' Insurance Agency (WDIA).

Founded by WSDA member Dr. Joseph Zimmer in Seattle, Zosseo Overland Support is a nonprofit organization that welcomes dentists from around the world to collaborate on meaningful medical missions in Africa.