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Owner of The Dental Gift Shop 🎁 Julie Varney, CDA,RDA,COA, CDSO, CDSH is an active dental assistant from Syracuse, NY. With over 29 years of dental assisting experience, Julie has many facets of the profes
06/12/2026
🦷Life in Dentistry Lately….✌🏻
Things that bring me dental joy:
✨My team
✨A great mask by Medicom
✨Headband by Medical Scrub caps dental cap
✨Toothy Decor Blushing Stained Glass
✨Toothy Apparel The Dental Gift Shop
✨New equipment Dentsply Sirona
✨Learning new things DDAA - Digital Dental Assistant Academy
✨Making new things SHINING 3D Dental
Dental Life is Good
🦷”I’d rather be getting a root canal” 😂
I hate my feet touched even for beauty. Worst 1 hour of my life today.
06/10/2026
🦷Forever a Rinn Girly here…. I’ve been told in past post comments: “I’m not a real dental assistant if I use these, I must suck as a Dental Assistant, Patients must hate me, I should be fired for using these.”
✨I use them because it’s what works for me and I get the shot every time.
🦷Remember to use what works for you, but if the X-ray is not diagnostic quality, your patient should not be paying for it.
😘These eliminate errors for me. Is it a little uncomfortable sure, but I haven’t had a patient complain in a while.
06/08/2026
Recently in forums I have been seeing an image of a chest xray with an aspirated syringe. This is a very rare and documented case.
Let’s discuss what actually happened here according to the research paper:
This happened in 2016, was published in a medical research paper 2021 and documention of the 16 year old patient.
Researcher:
Accidental ingestion of a three-way (air-water-spray) syringe tip during dental procedure recovered by gastroscopy: casereport
José Manuel Fernández Chaves1
1 Specialist in Legal & Forensic Dentistry. Oral Surgery & Pathology. MSc. Health Services Administration. School of Dentistry, University of Costa Rica. Forensic Dentistry Unit, Department of Legal Medicine, Judicial Investigation Agency. Costa Rica. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-5407
It did not go into her lungs, “the patient did not show at that time any signs of respiratory distress, the procedure was being carried out in an hospital dentistry service so she was immediately transferred to radiology where a simple x-ray of the abdomen was performed, the foreing body was located in the gastrointestinal area.”
This is a very rare occurrence. Patient was in a hospital setting already. The report also listed other dental objects that have been aspirated.
You can read the whole research paper here: https://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1409-00152021000300077
Very interesting article.
06/07/2026
🦷Dental Assistant Event: Atlanta GA at the Patterson Dental Branch
August 14th 8:30am start
Join Sherrie Myself and many more to have a fun filled day!
Learning, networking and meeting others just like you.
Link in Bio.
🦷Hot food burns…😢😢😣
🦷Dental Instruments: Interproximal Condenser for restorative procedures.
During a dental procedure the dentist may use this type of instrument to pack material to fill the prepped tooth.
🚨Dental Assistant Arrested & How to know your scope of practice in your state for a dental assistant.