Patients can often feel anxious or embarrassed about dental procedures and worry if they are getting the best care possible for their situation. At RiverWest Dental, we believe your mouth is the starting point for a healthy or unhealthy person. We are here to serve every patient with individualized, educated and anxiety free treatment so they can achieve a Whole Health smile.

Our focus on the Whole Health Smile is a term describing our process to keep you out of the chair as much as we can! We treat and educate every patient in a manner that should only have them returning for routine examinations and low cost maintenance.

Dr. Tyson was born in Washington and raised here in Idaho Falls. While attending Hillcrest High School Go Knights!!--- He, unknowingly to him, met his future wife, who was going to Idaho Falls High School obligatory Go Tigers!! --- After High School, Dr Tyson had the amazing opportunity to live in the beautiful country of Venezuela for two years. Because of this, Dr. Tyson is fluent in Spanish and mastered his dads jokes.

After returning to his hometown, he married his highschool sweetheart, Rachelle Woolstenhlme, and off to college they went. He graduated from ISU where he not only earned his zoology degree, but also served on the student council as the activities director. This must be where he learned to be the witty doctor we know him as. After ISU, he packed up his family and moved to Pittsburgh where he attended the University of dental medicine and earned his DMD. He has received training in oral surgery, prosthodontics, pediatrics, endodontics and special needs sedation dentistry. During dental school, Dr. Tyson served in numerous community outreach programs at public health clinics and participated in the annual give kids a smile day at his school. He was an active member of the Spanish dental club at his school.

After Graduating from dental school, Dr. Tyson wanted to move back to his hometown and work side by side with his dad Dr. Murdock. He absolutely loved having his dad as his mentor for 10 years. Dr. Tyson is passionate about dentistry and quality care for his patients. He works with mountain view hospital to help the special needs of the community and young kids to achieve dental work through sedation. Dr. Tyson is always seeking to increase his knowledge by staying current on dental topics, procedures and equipment through continuing education. He has completed extra training in Clear aligner therapy through clear correct, Cerec crowns and veneers, Implant placement for teeth and denture stability.

Dr. Tyson's family consists of his beautiful wife Rachelle and their two children. He spends many hours listening to his son play the drums or piano, or watching his daughter tumble on the gymnastics mat. He loves to help his wife with her passion of crafting and can often be found out in the shop doing woodworking for her. If not found in those locations, you can be sure hes out on the golf course, usually the one yelling at the ball thats going in the wrong direction!

He graduated from A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, where he was recognized with honors for his exceptional endodontic, clinical, leadership and merit skills. He also earned a certificate of public health with a dental emphasis.

During his time in school, he completed five external rotations at community health centers across the nation where he gained extensive hands-on training in the field of dentistry. Out of school he joined a private practice in Salt Lake City and then Des Moines, Iowa.

Dr. Jankowski has completed extensive continued education in cosmetic dentistry; root canal therapy; implantology; sleep and airway management; and clear aligner orthodontic treatment. He is also Invisalign certified.

Prior to dental school, Dr. Jankowski earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and minors in Chemistry, Zoology and Professional Sales from Weber State University. He also competed as a two-sport Division I athlete.

Dr. Joshua Reid Bell is a local Idaho Falls man through and through. He loves to snowboard, play soccer and volleyball and enjoys hiking in the wonderful Southeast Idaho region. Dr. Reid is the youngest of six kids and now has six of his own kids from his marriage to the most beautiful redhead in the world. He continues to snowboard with his family. He and his wife are very active and play in the volleyball coed league at Apple Athletic and coed soccer through the Idaho Falls YMCA.

Dr. Reid dedicates his whole self to his schooling, career and hobbies. Hes even been featured on an episode of the TV show Extreme Makeover Home Edition for finish carpentry! Dr. Reid graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1997 and went to Idaho State University on a full ride academic scholarship. He attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio and earned his DMD, or Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry. Dr. Reid started dental school with one kid and finished with number four on the way.

He states the best part of his job is the people he gets to meet. Just in Southeast Idaho, hes met a Hollywood movie stuntmen, managers of giant Vegas casinos, search and rescue scuba divers and so many more.