Here are six milestones that have taken place in the dental industry in the last 30 days:
1. Irvine, Calif.-based Pacific Dental Services honored the first graduate from its college advancement program.
2. Heera Chang, DDS, MD, was appointed as the first female dental director of Hawaii Dental Service, a dental benefits provider.
3. The Chicago Dental Society named Heather Nash as the organization's seventh executive director and the first female to hold the position.
4. Janice Darko is the first Black female graduate at the The University of Utah School of Dentistry in Salt Lake City.
5. Irving, Texas-based U.S. Oral Surgery Management added its first practices in Pennsylvania and New Mexico.
6. Dental supplier Dentsply Sirona partnered with Smile Train, a cleft-focused nonprofit, and the FDI World Dental Federation to establish the first-ever global protocols for digital cleft treatment.