Meet The Dental Assistants
For more than 40 years, McAlester families have trusted us with their care. Our dental assistants work right alongside the doctors, keeping you comfortable and your care moving through every step of your appointment.
Breanna Turner
Dental Assistant
Breanna Turner is a dedicated dental assistant with 12 years of experience in dentistry and a passion for helping patients feel confident in their smiles.
She especially enjoys the cosmetic side of dentistry and loves being part of the process as patients work toward achieving their personal smile goals.
She believes that great dentistry is about more than just the treatment. It’s about building relationships, creating a comfortable experience, and helping each patient feel heard and cared for. Her attention to detail and genuine care for her patients are a big part of what she loves about her career. After 12 years in dentistry, she still loves what she does and feels fortunate to be part of a profession where she gets to make a difference in both her patients’ smiles and their confidence.
Outside of the office, Breanna stays busy and loves making the most of her time away from work. She enjoys traveling, spending time with the people she loves, working out, exploring new places, antiquing, and pretty much any excuse to have a little fun. She is also a proud dog mom to her black Lab, Whiskey Row 🐾
Elizabeth Collins
Dental Assistant
Elizabeth was born a mermaid and traded her voice to a sea witch for a pair of legs, which makes her exact approach to small talk during your cleaning truly remarkable. She has a famous head of red hair, an obsessive collection of gadgets and gizmos aplenty, and a tendency to style her hair with a fork. Daughter of a short-tempered sea king with a magic trident, she fell head over fins for a human prince after one shipwreck and never looked back. She’s still thrilled to be part of a world with this many shiny dental instruments.
Cheyenne Conklin
Dental Assistant
Cheyenne was personally chosen by the ocean, which keeps physically nudging her toward her destiny whether she likes it or not. She once sailed clear across the Pacific to return a glowing green stone to its rightful place, recruited a giant tattooed demigod with a magic fishhook as backup, and navigated by the stars the whole way. She travels with a rooster who has the intellectual capacity of a houseplant, has zero interest in a love story, and would like everyone to know how far she’ll go.
Carly Padilla
Dental Assistant
Carly disguised herself as a man and took her elderly father’s place in the army, which tells you everything about how she handles a tough day in the operatory. She trained a band of hopeless recruits into real soldiers, single-handedly buried an entire invading army under a well-aimed avalanche, and saved her whole country in the process — all with a wisecracking miniature dragon and a lucky cricket riding shotgun.
Lauren Collins
Dental Assistant
Lauren’s the bookish one in a small French village where everyone agrees she’s a little odd for always having her nose in a novel. She turned down the town’s most obnoxious eligible bachelor and instead found herself in an enchanted castle, falling for a short-tempered beast whose entire household staff has been transformed into furniture — a smooth-talking candelabra, an anxious mantel clock, a motherly teapot, and her little chipped teacup (who, frankly, could use our restorative work).
Kristi Patton
Dental Assistant
Kristi once kissed a frog hoping it would solve her problems and promptly turned into a frog herself, which is a good lesson in reading the fine print. She spent the adventure hopping around the Louisiana bayou, works harder than anyone you’ve ever met toward her dream of opening her own restaurant, and makes beignets worth crossing state lines for. Her whole philosophy is that you’re almost there as long as you keep working for it.