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Ninth District Headquarters Office - Hawthorne, NY

2025 Ninth District President

Dr. Renuka Bijoor

ADA Update: a new login experience

We’re updating how you log in to your NYSDA and ADA account.

RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY!

3 EASY WAYS TO PAY 1 ONLINE: nysdental.org/renew 2 MAIL: Return dues stub and payment 3 PHONE: 1-800-255-2100

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Welcome to the Ninth District Dental Association

The Ninth District Dental Society was formed in 1909 and renamed to the Ninth District Dental Association in 2002. We have a membership of over 1500 dentists in 5 counties: Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Orange and Putnam.

In its quest to serve both the public and the profession, the Ninth District embodies the highest ideals.

The mission of the 9th District Dental Association is to serve and support its members and the public by improving the oral health of our community through Advocacy, Continuing Education and Camaraderie.



The Ninth District Dental Association

New Dentist Reception

Come Join Your New Dentist Colleagues!

Thursday, November 20, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Vida Restaurant
14 Marble Avenue
Thornwood, NY  10594

There will be passed hors d'oeuvres, beer & wine, vendors, and lots of fun FOR ALL NEW DENTISTS, Residents,
and D4 Dental Students!

 Meet local new dentists whoa are also starting their career in dentistry! Learn how other new dentists and established dentists navigated their first steps after dental school and residency! 

There will be dentists in all Specialties, as well as General Practitioners. Ninth District Dental Association Leaders will be present.

Register for the November 20th New Dentist Reception!

We will have established co-sponsors to assist all New Dentists with anything practice related!

Co-Sponsors (names are links to website)

Altfest Personal Wealth Management

DDSMatch

Danziger & Markhoff LLP

MLMIC Insurance Co.

We Hope to See You There!!

 Lana Hashim, DDS
Chair, New Dentist Committee

 Renuka Bijoor, DDS, MPH
President

 


Latest News Around the Tripartite

DFS Takes Cybersecurity Action Against Healthplex

Aug 14, 2025

Per the notice below, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has taken action against Healthplex, Inc., for cybersecurity failures.

Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris Secures $2 Million Cybersecurity Settlement with Healthplex, Inc.

Healthplex’s Cybersecurity Failures Enabled an E-mail Phishing Attack to Expose Customers’ Sensitive Personal Data

New York State Department of Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris announced today that Healthplex, Inc. (Healthplex), will pay a $2 million penalty to New York State for violations of DFS’s cybersecurity regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500).  As part of the settlement, Healthplex has agreed to hire an independent auditor to examine the adequacy of Healthplex’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) controls.

“Health insurance providers are entrusted with highly sensitive personal information and health data of policyholders,” said Superintendent Harris.  “The Department’s nation-leading cybersecurity regulation requires insurers and other regulated entities to maintain and implement robust cybersecurity policies, so the private information New Yorkers entrust to them is protected.  Healthplex’s failure to adhere to these rules resulted in the exposure of the sensitive data of tens of thousands of consumers.”

Healthplex is a licensed provider of dental insurance management services.  In late 2021, a Healthplex customer service employee received and clicked on a phishing e-mail which granted threat actors access to all of the consumer data in the employee’s e-mail account.  The Department’s investigation revealed that Healthplex had no data retention policy to limit the storage of e-mails in Microsoft Outlook.  As a result, the nonpublic information (NPI) of tens of thousands of New Yorkers was vulnerable to exposure.  Notably, Healthplex did not have MFA controls set up on its Microsoft Outlook 365 e-mail environment.  These failures made it possible for the threat actors to gain access to troves of sensitive consumer NPI, including health data.  The Department’s investigation also revealed that Healthplex waited over four months, well beyond the 72-hour reporting requirement in the cybersecurity regulation, from initially learning of the phishing incident and subsequent data exposure before notifying the Department.  This notice requirement is a critical safeguard that enables the Department to carry out its consumer protection function.  The Department’s cybersecurity regulation has been in effect since March 2017, with an updated regulation becoming effective in November 2023.  Read the Healthplex consent order here.


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