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Is it safe to visit the dentist during the COVID-19 pandemic

NBC Bay Area Investigation finds some dental offices reopening even though serious infection dangers may persist.

Need to go to the dentist but nervous about COVID-19? After NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit looked into dental coronavirus safety concerns, we also wanted to find out what questions you can ask and what to expect before your next appointment.

Many people have put off going to the dentist due to concerns about catching COVID-19, but now, some dental offices have re-opened.   Some dentists are back in business, even for elective procedures, but since most people put off dental work during the pandemic shut down, many offices now have a waiting list. Dr. Steven Kupferman is an oral surgeon...

As California begins stage 2 of its reopening strategy, many business owners are preparing to open up their doors. One group still waiting on guidance are dentists. “I’m only seeing about one to two patients a day compared to before seeing 20 to 30,” said Encinitas dentist Scott Holyoak. “We’ve always felt like we are essential workers and everything that…

A generous La Mesa dentist surprised his five employees with goodies to help keep them afloat after his office shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.

At San Diego’s Thompson Center for Dentistry, patients can pick fresh veggies from the garden! Learn more about cosmetic dentistry, children’s dental issues and more on California Live Feb. 20, 2020.

Half of the completed suicides in the United States in 2015 were carried out using a firearm, research shows. A program developed by gun owners and public health experts shows you can cut those numbers back with a simple approach.

The Smile Direct Club’s technology can straighten a patient’s teeth in as little as six months. As seen on California Live on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020.

An Alaska dentist accused of fraud and unnecessarily sedating patients also performed a procedure while riding a wheeled, motorized vehicle known as a hoverboard, authorities said. Prosecutors charged 34-year-old Seth Lookhart with felony Medicaid fraud and reckless endangerment. A former patient testified Wednesday at his trial that she was angered when an investigator showed her an unauthorized 2016 video of…

Robert Evans, the protean, fast-living Hollywood producer and former Paramount Pictures production chief who backed such seminal 1970s films as “Chinatown,” ”The Godfather” and “Harold and Maude,” has died. He was 89. Evans publicist, Monique Moss, confirmed that Evans died on Saturday. No other details Monday were immediately available.

Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at the race track? California Live gets a rare look into a day at Santa Anita Park. As seen on California Live on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019.

Most people hate the going to the dentist but for a family of four- arriving in town just last month from Rwanda, Africa – this appointment is something they’ve been dreaming about.

Seven months after the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced plans to launch a start-of-the-art denture clinic in response to a Houston Chronicle investigation, inmates from across the system are starting to get some of the first sets of 3D-printed teeth ever made inside a U.S. prison.

A historic mixed-use building in downtown San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter has been sold to an undisclosed buyer for nearly $6.3 million.

A series of Facebook video ads for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign shows what appears to be a young woman strolling on a beach in Florida, a Hispanic man on a city street in Texas and a bearded hipster in a coffee shop in Washington, D.C., all making glowing, voice-over endorsements of the president. “I could not ask for a...

A Mira Mesa dentist was charged Tuesday with insurance fraud for falsifying hundreds of root canal records to scam insurance companies out of nearly $600,000, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said.

Federal authorities said Wednesday they have charged 60 people, including 31 doctors, for their roles in illegally prescribing and distributing millions of pills containing opioids and other dangerous drugs. U.S. Attorney Benjamin Glassman of Cincinnati described the action as the biggest known takedown yet of drug prescribers. Robert Duncan, U.S. attorney for eastern Kentucky, called the doctors involved “white-coated drug...

Former congressman Beto O’Rourke will not make another run at a U.S. Senate seat. NBC 5’s media partner The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday that O’Rourke has decided not to challenge incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in 2020.