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Editorial: Delta’s Struggle with Dentists Calls for Extraction

"Dentists for the state’s largest dental insurer are pushing for changes that could benefit patients." Read an editorial by the Everett Herald Editorial Board following the recent petition of no confidence in Delta Dental CEO Jim Dwyer.
There’s this nagging ache that Washington Dental Services, the state’s largest dental insurer, really needs to see its dentists about.

The pain, ignored last fall by the board of directors for Washington Dental Services, also known as Delta Dental, has only gotten worse and recently resulted in a call by the Washington State Dental Association, which represents the state’s dentists, for the extraction of Delta’s chief executive in Washington, Jim Dwyer.

The petition, signed by 1,500 of Delta’s 4,500 member dentists, says the dentists have lost confidence in Dwyer and want the board to remove him in advance of his planned retirement in January 2019.

Read the full editorial at heraldnet.com

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