Here are five dental industry updates that have taken place in Pennsylvania since Aug. 22:
1. New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Dental365 acquired a six-location group practice in Pennsylvania, its first additions in the state.
2. David Kurzinsky, DDS, is retiring after practicing in Shenandoah, Pa., since 1981.
3. John Alonge, DDS, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Erie, Pa., received a $3.2 million jury verdict after slipping and falling in an operating room at Saint Vincent Hospital.
4. The dental practice of Suzanne Edwards, DDS, in Lock Haven, Pa., was damaged in a fire.
5. The Pennsylvania Senate and House have both proposed a bill that would give the governor's office the ability to join a multistate agreement that lets dental workers transfer their license from one state to another.