2062 – Practical Veterinary Dentistry (September 2024)

Learn to love your small animal dentistry when you come on this highly practical course. Our expert and approachable tutor will help you to develop a highly practical approach to the dental and oral cases you’ll see in your practice. If you’re a GP this is an essential course; it will elevate your dentistry beyond simple extraction and make your dentals a pleasure rather than a pain! You’ll gain confidence and practical skills in the extensive hands-on practical sessions and leave with renewed enthusiasm and the tools you need to make the most of small animal dentistry in your practice.

  What you’ll learn:

• Equipment – pros, cons, choice, care and practical try-out
• Oral examination & investigation – approach & protocols
• Introduction to intra-oral radiography – identifying the lesion
• Dental and oral disease & abnormalities
• Indications for extraction – when to extract, why & alternatives
• Periodontal disease – prevention and cure
• Feline dental disease essentials
• Extraction techniques
• Interactive cases to help you with decision making
• Extensive hands-on wet labs to help you develop your practical skills

To ensure all topics are covered thoroughly, with both theory & generous wet-lab practical time, local analgesia is not included on this course. It is included in the below courses, designed as the next-steps in your dentistry progression: 

• Oral Surgery: Difficult Extractions
• Feline Dentistry
• Dentistry PG Cert (includes & expands upon oral surgery, feline dentistry topics and more)

Already done a comprehensive dentistry course and ready for more specific topics? Further your knowledge and skills on our next-stage courses:

• Dental X-ray Imaging
• Feline Dentistry
• Oral Surgery – Difficult Extractions
• Jaw Fractures

Course Tutor: Alex Smithson BVM&S BDS(Hons) Cert Endod Dipl Endontology MRCVS

Course Feedback: “I took so much out of this dentistry course and realised how much I was doing it in an inappropriate manner. Definitely feel a lot more confident moving forward in what type of service I’m providing in 1st opinion practice. I really like how practical courses at CPD Solutions are.”

“Very positive experience-lots of really useful information and tips. All staff and lecturer very approachable and knowledgeable. Really useful format with level of practical element and consolidation lectures.”

“I thought the course was excellent-really helpful, really good practical’s. It will completely change my dentistry!”

You’ll need to complete the online learning for this course before the practical session. This is so that you are familiar with the theory and the techniques that you’ll be carrying out in the practical sessions. We’ve found that delegates get much more from the practical sessions with this format, and you will also have more time for hands-on practice.  We’ll email you access details for your online resources several weeks prior to your attendance session date.