Kara M. Bartch, a YTI Career Institute graduate, has joined the staff of Susquehanna Dental Arts, in Columbia, Pennsylvania, as a dental assistant to Dr. Owen Allison. Bartch hails from Wrightsville, but now resides in Lancaster.

Susquehanna Dental offers general family dentistry, providing a full range of dental services, with an emphasis on safe removal of defective mercury-silver fillings. Allison has a special interest in holistic health care and views dentistry as a whole-body discipline.

Location: 100 S. 18th St., in the Columbia Shopping Center, Columbia, PA. For more information, call 717-684-3943 or 717-285-7033.