Our practice is a very traditional family-oriented one. As a Fort Worth Native, Dr. Murphey graduated from Arlington Heights High School. Later he graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio where he majored in biology. In college he was captain of Trinity's rifle team and a member of the National Society of Pershing Rifles. He graduated from Baylor College of Dentistry in 1974. Originally an Army R.O.T.C commissioned officer, he served in the U.S. Navy, assigned to the United States Marine Corps.

His unit, First Battalion, Fourth Marines, served in the evacuations of Vietnam and Cambodia. He holds, among others, the Humanitarian Service due to this service. A marksman, he holds the distinction of being the only Naval dental officer to win a Divisional intramural rifle and pistol championship in the Marine Corps.

Dr. Murphey is well known as an accomplished, price-winning scale modeler. He enjoys close work such as painting details on tiny model planes for his ship collection, which was recently displayed at the Southwest Regional Library in Fort Worth.

In 1975 he married the former Anne Clark of Fort Worth and in 1976 he established his private practice in its current location. The Murpheys have three daughters. Mary Ellen is married and works in human resource, Sarah is at a mid-point in her college education and is often part-time at the office. The youngest, Margaret, attends Arlington Heights High School, where she is a member of the National Honor Society.

He has held several offices in the Fort Worth District Dental Society and is a member of the Texas and American Dental Associations.

We offer a full range of preventative, restorative, and root canal prostheses, crowns and bridges, traditional dentures, and root canal therapy. We can treat many periodontal cases and most children. Dr. Murphey also extracts teeth, with necessary.

Of course we also offer cosmetic services such as bleaching and bonding. Dr. Murphey has a special interest in salvaging difficult-to-restore teeth.

A special project he enjoys is organizing  a biennial memorial service for twelve WW-1 British, Canadian, and American volunteer pilots of the British Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force who are buried here in Fort Worth's Royal Flying Corps Cemetery.

My Practice Philosophy

When you visit my office, I want to give you the best dental care possible. To me, this means the most appropriate care, not necessarily the most expensive, nor certainly not the cheapest. My personal opinion is that almost anyone's teeth can be saved for an acceptable cost, but I fear a lot of patients never have their basic disease controlled at the outset of dental care.

Both decay and gum disease are infectious diseases. They respond well to the removal of bacteria and the mechanical correction of the structural damage to the teeth, gums, and bone. However, if the patient has no commitment to effective lifestyle changes that lead to improved care, whatever the dentist does will be doomed. You have to hang up the 16 oz bottles of soft drinks.

I'm talking here about the need for the follow-up home care and regular dental care in general.

Insurance

We will work with your insurance as well as we can. Most dental insurance has an annual maximum of around $1,000 and this has not changed must since 1975.

We don't accept ANY DMO or HMO plans.

You may use ANY PPO dental plan, even if they give you a list. If you are not sure what you have, ask your insurance person at work. If you need pay-out, we accept all major credit cards.