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General Information
Dates/Location:
Saturday October 18, 2008 (8:00 - 5:00)
Sunday October 19, 2008 (8:00 - 5:00)
Fees:
Early registration (before September 15, 2008)
$549 CDN/US (Day 1 & 2)
$299 CDN/US(Day 1 OR Day 2)
Late registration (after September 15, 2008)
$599 CDN/US (Day 1 & 2)
$349 CDN/US(Day 1 OR Day 2)
Fee includes notes, lunch and coffee breaks.
GST will be added to Canadian fees.
Sign up Early – Space is Limited
CE Accreditation:
Certificate awarded from the Ontario Veterinary College for 8 hours of CE credit for each day attended.
Cancellation Policy:
90% refunds less deposit will be issued for cancellations up to 60 days prior. No refunds will be issued after that date except under special circumstances, when the maximum refund is 50%. Lifelearn reserves the right to cancel the course, in which case a full course refund only will be paid. |
NB: Please do not make flight reservations until the course you are registering in is confirmed. Confirmation depends on the number of registrants which varies with each course. You will receive a confirmation either by phone, fax or email. Lifelearn reserves the right to cancel a course, in which case a full course refund only will be paid. All other costs will be paid by the registrant. For registrations that you wish to cancel, a 90% refund less deposit will be issued up to 60 days prior to the course. No refunds will be issued after that date except under special circumstances, when the maximum refund is 50%.
Speaker:
Fraser Hale, DVM, FAVD, Dip AVDC
No area of veterinary practice has grown as much or as rapidly as veterinary dentistry. Gone forever are the days of "If it's loose, pull and if it's dirty, scale it." Our clients expect and our patients deserve far better than that. Fortunately, no field in general practice is as potentially profitable as dentistry, so it truly is a win-win-win situation.
This two-day lecture series is designed to help general practitioners and technicians understand and deal with the common dental and oral ailments and issues seen in dogs and cats every day. I highly recommend that all members of the dental-care team attend together so everyone can be pulling on the oars in unison. Technicians and DVMs bring different perspectives and concerns and so each will hear the messages differently depending on their own points-of-view.
Day one will include the following titles (as presented in the Fall of 2007):
- Dental and Oral Anatomy and Physiology. While this may seem basic it is an absolutely essential subject for all members of the dental health-care team. This is the foundation of knowledge you did not get in school and that you need for everything that follows. We must understand normal to recognize abnormal and we must understand how the tissues will react to various insults and treatments in order to devise a rational treatment plan.
- Dental Equipment and Instrumentation. No matter how much knowledge we have, we also need the proper physical tools, properly maintained and properly used, in order to do the job right. This session will be a tour of some of the more common manual and power equipment.
- Periodontal Disease is the most common disease condition seen in general practice yet it is still misunderstood in many ways. This presentation gets into some detail on the pathophysiology of periodontal disease with discussion on how to manage it both on the dental table and once the animal has gone home.
- Intra-Oral Dental Radiology is an absolutely essential diagnostic and monitoring tool that will have application in almost every single dental patient. While we will have already seen many intra-oral radiographs in the previous discussions, this talk will focus on the nuts-and-bolts of intra-oral dental radiographic equipment and technique.
Day Two will focus on a number of subjects that we did not get to last Fall but for which there were many requests.
- Radiographic Interpretation will start the day where we finished off. Having discussed how to get the images, we now will look at what to make of them.
- Feline Issues will look primarily at Dental Resorptive Lesions in cats (though they do also occur in dogs) and Chronic Oral Inflammatory Disease or Lymphocytic/Plasmacytic Gingivostomatis.
- Juvenile Veterinary Dentistry will discuss some of the many problems that can occur in the first year of life. For many, early recognition and intervention can avoid much worse trouble down the road. This will include a focus on the “micro-dog” and other anatomical disasters that really need our help to make the best of a bad design.
- Extraction is the most common surgical procedure in general practice, yet one that few people have been taught to do well. This session will cover some of the basics of exodontic surgery as well as offering some tips and tricks that have not yet made it into the standard text books.
- Time permitting, we will finish the day with a potpourri of Dental Pathology, looking at some odd-ball and common conditions not yet discussed or only briefly touched on previously.
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