Practical Dentistry with Rachel Perry
Provided by Central CPD
About the course
Practical Dentistry
Course Date: Wednesday 13th June 2018 & Thursday 14th June 2018
Dentistry is a very important part of practice life, from a time and income perspective, as well as in terms of general animal welfare, yet it is often the discipline practitioners like the least. This two-day cadaver-based practical course aims to significantly improve your practical dentistry skills as well as reignite your enthusiasm.
Topics to be covered include:
- Understand the clinical indications for extractions, including reviewing relevant alternatives
- Review relevant dental and oral anatomy
- Understand the principals involved in closed and open (surgical) extraction techniques
- Understand the benefits and risks of/and practise regional anaesthesia (dental nerve blocks)
- Practise extractions on cadaver specimens – concentrating on the ‘big 4’: canines and carnassials in the dog
- Review surgical principles of mucogingivoperiosteal flap creation
- Understand how to avoid extraction complications
- Learn how to retrieve root tips