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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
sion that she is experienced in. Julie is often focusing on unlocking hidden potential, while delivering positive change to dental assistants. Julie will focus on building confidence and organizing chaos with dental assistants. She’s on a mission to enhance each dental assistant's career, by embracing their passion and bringing out the leaders within them.
Julie, the founder of Dental Assistants Rock LLC, believes that relating, engaging and educating, every dental assistant will not only help them survive chairside but thrive for longevity in their career. Her focus and purpose has always been to help other dental assistants realize they belong, the role they play in patient care, they have a voice, and they can forge forward in their careers. Julie earned her CDA, RDA from Hudson Valley Community College and an associates in Math/Science from Onondaga Community College. Previously she was a Director/Instructor of a Dental Assistant Program in Syracuse, NY for 10 years, launched in 2007. In 2016, she was named Top 25 Women in Dentistry by Dental Products Report magazine as a Dental Assistant. Julie, the founder of Dental Assistants Rock LLC, believes that relating, engaging and educating, every dental assistant will not only help them survive chairside but thrive for longevity in their career. Member of:
New York State Dental Board
American Association of Dental Office Management
OSAP
Certifications:
CDA-DANB
COA-DANB
RDA-NYS State
HIPAA-Institute for Dental Compliance
OSHA-Institute for Dental Compliance
🦷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.
06/10/2026
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