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Dental insurance operates separately from medical insurance, which means it follows different policies that patients may be unfamiliar with.

Dental insurance operates separately from medical insurance, which means it follows different policies that patients may be unfamiliar with.

NJ considers allowing COVID vaccines at dentists, eye doctors Published: January 18, 2021 The first COVID-19 vaccination to be administered in New Jersey is prepared at University Hospital. (Pool photo by Kirsten Luce for The New York Times) TRENTON — New Jerseyans could soon get their COVID-19 vaccines at their dentists or eye doctors, under bills endorsed by an Assembly committee. Two weeks ago, state Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli authorized dentists, paramedics and other health care...

Her Wrist Was Swollen and Excruciatingly Painful. Steroids Didn’t Help Much. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/magazine/mycobacterium-marinum.html Credit...Illustration by Ina Jang Dec. 16, 2020 It was the worst pain she had ever felt, the 57-year-old woman told Dr. Mark Vitale. He was a hand surgeon in Greenwich, Conn. — part of the same practice she had visited earlier that year for pain in her hips. But this wrist pain was so much worse. Five days earlier, she noticed a little sor...