Canine dentistry

Key Information

CPD Hours: 16 hours

Course Length: Two days

Course Format: Lectures, case-based discussions and practical sessions

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£1,299.00

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This course may run again in the future. To register your interest please contact us.

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Many thanks to both Simone and Rachel for an excellent two days. Returning to practice I felt very nervous about dentals… Not anymore!

Course Information

Key Areas
  • The foundations of oral diagnosis
  • Do’s and don’ts of scaling and polishing
  • How to take good dental radiographs
  • How to perform closed extractions confidently and with control
  • Regional nerve blocks and analgesia for dental patients
  • The use of muco-periosteal flaps for the surgical extraction of mandibular, maxillary and carnassial teeth
  • Root remnant removal
  • Radiographic interpretation and case discussions covering
  • - Periodontal disease: when to extract?
  • - Fractured teeth: when to treat?
  • - Treating teeth affected by resorption
About this course

Please note this course is scheduled to run on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th October 2024. Please email cpd@rvc.ac.uk to register your interest.

Would you like to improve the quality of the dental care you can offer your patients?

This two-day course focuses on extractions in small animal practice. It includes a strong practical component with cadavers. The lectures, while covering both feline and canine aspects, will concentrate mostly on canine dentistry. The course fee includes a set of IM3 dental instruments to use during the practical and take home at the end of the course.

Why do this course?
Fine-tune your extraction skills, and at the same time become more knowledgeable and confident addressing your dental cases.

 

Tutors

Simone Kirby, DipEVDC FHEA MRCVS Tieraerztin, RCVS Recognised Specialist and EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Dentistry,
Veterinary Dental and Oral Surgery Referrals,
The Ralph Veterinary Referral Centre, Marlow

Rachel Perry, BSc BVM&S MANZCVS (Small Animal Dentistry and Oral Surgery) DipEVDC PGCertVetEd FHEA MRCVS, RCVS Recognised Specialist and EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Dentistry, Honorary Lecturer in Dentistry, Royal Veterinary College
Director, Perry Referrals

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