Dentistry for Veterinary Nurses
£607.00 (+VAT)
A practical course designed to build confidence in veterinary dental nursing, combining hands-on skills with clear guidance to support effective patient care, diagnostics and client communication.
Dentistry for Veterinary Nurses
As a veterinary nurse you can play a key role in the management of patients requiring dental, oral and maxillofacial procedures, including educating your clients about optimal oral homecare for their pets. You are allowed to perform many parts of a dental procedure from assessment and documenting your findings for the veterinary surgeon, obtaining intraoral radiographs to provide vital additional diagnostic information, scaling the teeth, as well as all of the perioperative preparation and care of the patient, environment and equipment.
This course will provide you with an overview of perioperative patient management, how to correctly assess the oral cavity and document your findings, the principles of obtaining diagnostic intraoral radiographs, how to scale teeth safely and effectively, how to set up and manage the dental theatre – including identification of instrumentation, correct use of equipment, and how to maintain it. It will also help you to formulate different oral homecare plans to suit different animals and their owners.
What you’ll learn:
- Recap key anatomy associated with the head and oral cavity (pre-learning)
- Outline common dental, oral and maxillofacial conditions managed in general / first opinion veterinary practice (pre-learning)
- Patient and theatre preparation (pre-learning)
- Equipment identification, use and maintenance (practical)
- How to perform a thorough oral assessment – conscious and under general anaesthetic (practical)
- How to accurately document your assessment findings (practical)
- How to scale teeth safely and effectively (practical)
- How to obtain diagnostic intraoral radiographs using the bisecting angle technique
- Intraoperative support of the veterinary surgeon, including specific anaesthetic considerations (pre-learning)
- Post-operative patient management (pre-learning)
- Oral homecare plans and client education (practical / summary theory session)
Course Tutor :
Claire Bloor MA Ed, BSc (Hons) VN, RVN, PGCE, QTLS, Cert VN (Dent)
