Here are five updates since Dec. 19:
1. Dental partnership organization Salt Dental Collective appointed Dylan Bates its new CEO.
2. Tend, a tech-focused dental company, hired Cynthia Hiskes as its first chief people officer.
3. Holyoke, Mass.-based DSO Affinity Dental Management added Mariz Tanious, DDS, its chief dental officer.
4. Sonrava Health promoted Dr. Zhi Meng from regional president to chief clinical operations officer.
5. Stephen Fong joined dental software company Planet DDS as CFO.