May 21, 2025
                        
                        
                            The ADA’s annual SmileCon conference will hold its final event this October.
                        
                    
                    
                        May 21, 2025
                        
                        
                            The ADA is commenting on competition in the dental insurance market.
                        
                    
                    
                        May 21, 2025
                        
                        
                            A national conversation on fluoride prompted ADA leaders to re-emphasize the need for insurance groups to cover preventive services.
                        
                    
                    
                        May 20, 2025
                        
                        
                            Dentists will learn how to communicate the importance of children’s airway health during the event taking place July 24-26 in Chicago.
                        
                    
                    
                        May 19, 2025
                        
                        
                            Dental assistants in Iowa will no longer need to register with the state dental board, thanks to a new law.
                        
                    
                    
                        May 19, 2025
                        
                        
                            ADA officials urged urged third-party payers, Medicaid agencies and employer groups to include fluoride treatment in coverage. 
                        
                    
                    
                        May 16, 2025
                        
                        
                            ADA News is providing a roundup of happenings in government you may have missed. 
                        
                    
                    
                        May 15, 2025
                        
                        
                            The ADA issued a Grassroots Alert urging members to tell Congress to oppose a tax bill provision that would negatively impact dentists. 
                        
                    
                    
                        May 15, 2025
                        
                        
                            The ADA is aware of dental benefit carriers reducing payments owed to dentists to recoup overpayments made to other dentists.
                        
                    
                    
                        May 14, 2025
                        
                        
                            Florida became the second state to ban community water fluoridation after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 700 into law. 
                        
                    
                    
                        May 14, 2025
                        
                        
                            The ADA and University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine have collaborated to establish the ADA Living Guideline Program.  
                        
                    
                    
                        May 13, 2025
                        
                        
                            The FDA announced that it plans to remove prescription fluoride supplements from the market once a safety review is completed.