Description
This webinar is intended to provide the delegate with an introduction to the role of a veterinary nurse (VN) within dental service provision in general practice. We will begin with a discussion about exactly what laws relate to VNs and dentistry, as this is an area with somewhat ‘blurry boundaries’, and it is important to understand exactly what our remit is to avoid disciplinary action. We will move onto a discussion about the types of facilities and equipment you really need in practice to get started and provide a high quality dentistry service to your clients, with a little information about how the equipment should be maintained. This will involve considering the types of resources you have available in your consultation rooms, because dentistry is harder to explain to most clients without ‘props’, but also the equipment you have available in your operating theatre; what should you have? What shouldn’t you have? What do we need to consider for the health and safety of all parties? We will then think about where we might source our ‘dental’ patients from – which animals should we be checking? Specific ones? All of them? Why and when? – before moving on to discuss some of the pathologies we are likely to identify within our patients’ oral cavities; gingivitis, periodontitis, fractures ans so on. We will discuss some treatment options that are available in general practice (and some that are not) in relation to the various pathologies, before concluding with some thoughts about various ‘dental’ products that are on the market, and what we should be using (or not) to maintain optimal oral health in our veterinary patients.