Continuing Education Courses

 Course style - lecture and wet lab

Learning objectives -

• Equipment preferred
• Choosing the right local block for your patient
• Prepping and dosing the anesthetic
• Avoiding complications
• Anatomical Landmarks
• Step by step instruction on technique
• Skull and cadaver practice lab

Duration - 1.5 hour

Number of participants - 1-10

 Course Style - Lecture and lab

Learning objectives

• Equipment needed
• Patient positioning
• Proper views for a complete dental radiograph set - cat and dog
• Labial Mounting
• Recognizing mandibular vs maxillary images
• The bisecting angle technique
• Step by step guide to canine and feline radiographs with tips and tricks
• Troubleshooting

Duration - Lecture 1.5 hours, Lab 1-2 hours

Number of participants - unlimited

 Course Style - Lecture

Learning objectives

• Proper views for a complete dental radiograph set - cat and dog
• Labial Mounting
• Recognizing mandibular vs maxillary images
• Normal radiographic anatomy
• Periodontal structures and disease
• Endodontic structures and disease
• Tooth resorption - Type 1  vs Type 2, Stages 1-5
• Neoplasia
• Making a treatment plan
• Pre and post-op radiograph evaluation

Duration - Lecture 1.5 hours

Number of participants - unlimited

 Course style - Lecture

Learning Objectives

• Equipment requirements and preferences
• Dental chart options
• Four quadrant approach
• Proper abbreviations
• Recognizing common pathology and proper charting of abnormalities
• The complete intraoral and extraoral exam
• Reviewing examples

Duration 1.5 hour

Number of participants - unlimited

 Course Style - lecture and wet lab

Learning Objectives

• Equipment requirements and preferences
• Importance of dental radiography
• Anesthesia and analgesia with local nerve blocks
• Gingival flap design, elevation, and closure techniques
• Alveoplasty and tooth sectioning techniques
• Elevation techniques
• Techniques for extraction of broken root tips
• Properly prepping the site for closure
• Suture choice and suture patterns
• Managing complications

Duration -  4-6 hours

Number of participants - 1-4. Determined by number of high speed handpieces and dental units available. 

 Course Style - Lecture

Learning Objectives

• Review of the periodontium
• Oral exam findings associated with periodontal disease and attachment loss
• Diagnosis of stage 1, 2, 3 and 4 periodontal disease
• Radiographic changes associated with periodontal disease
• Periodontal disease treatment options from simple to advanced
• Equipment and materials for treatment
• Long term management and monitoring
• Recognizing canine chronic ulcerative gingivitis (CUPS/CCUS) and treatment/management strategies
• Feline periodontal disease and tooth resorption
• Feline juvenile periodontitis
• Gingival enlargement and pseudopocket management

Duration - 1.5 hours

Number of participants - unlimited

 Course Style - Lecture

Learning Objectives

• Review of normal occlusion, class I malocclusion, class II malocclusion, class III malocclusion and class IV malocclusion
• Malocclusion and deciduous dentition
• When to intervene
• Treatment options
• Complications of untreated traumatic malocclusions

Duration - 1 hour

Number of participants - unlimited

 Course Style - Lecture

Learning objectives

• Attrition and abrasion 
• Crown fractures
• Concussive trauma and pulpitis
• Dental luxation, impaction, extrusion
• Jaw fractures

Duration - 1.5 hours

Number of participants - unlimited

 Course Style - Lecture

Learning objectives

• Making the diagnosis
• Treatment options and prognosis
• Prepping the patient for oral surgery - initial medical management/pain relief
• Full mouth extractions vs partial mouth extractions
• Managing refractory cases
• When to refer

Duration - 1.5 hours

Number of participants - unlimited