Members of the
Pennsylvania Dental
Association Dental
Identification Team
(PADIT)
HISTORICAL
TIMELINE
1868 -2018
1994
Camille Kostelac-
Cherry, Esq.
appointed as new
PDA executive
director.
1987 1995 1996
The House of Delegates
makes official the creation
of DentalComp, Inc., PDA’s
wholly-owned dental
insurance company that
promotes and sells direct
reimbursement dental
plans. PDA’s Central Office building
expansion project begins with
ceremonial groundbreaking for
the $1.5 million expansion and
renovation project.
1996
1996
PDA expanded our National
Children’s Dental Health
Month program and
activities to include lesson
plan kits for every third
grade classroom in the state
and a statewide coloring
contest that included cash
prizes, education bonds and
incentives.
1995
PDA’s Expanded Function
Dental Assistants (EFDA)
legislation becomes law as it
is signed by Governor Robert
P. Casey. The law created a
new category to perform
procedures under the direct
supervision of a licensed
dentist.
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1990 1985
The PDA Forensic
Odontology
Committee formed
the Pennsylvania
Dental Association
Dental Identification
Team (PADIT).
1994
U.S. Air Flight 427 crashes
near Pittsburgh. An advance
team of 14 members of
the Pennsylvania Dental
Association Dental
Identification Team (PADIT) is
activated to the crash site on
Sept. 9 to assist in identifying
the 132 crash victims.
1988
The civil suit
involving PDA and
Blue Shield ends with
summary judgment
in favor of PDA in
the United States
District Court for the
Middle District of
Pennsylvania.
1994
1986
PDA launches the Pennsylvania Prevent
Abuse and Neglect through Dental
Awareness (PA P.A.N.D.A.) coalition to assist
dentists in preventing child maltreatment.
The coalition brought together PDA and
10 other organizations to educate dental
professionals on identifying and reporting
child abuse.
Dr. John W. Staubach, PDA President 1994-1995
No matter what other affiliations we have, we must keep
in mind that we comprise a framework. A framework that
consists of each member supporting one another. If we lose
a support here and there, the entire framework will
progressively weaken and surely collapse into a useless heap.
(in his 1995 address in Pittsburgh)
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