Who should attend
Any veterinary surgeon involved in general small animal practice!
Dental Radiography units are becoming more common in practice - ALL small animal practices should be considering purchase. Dentistry standards are improving, client expectations are increasing even more rapidly. Radiography allows you to do the job properly - and helps protect you from complaints and litigation.
New graduates and experienced vets can all learn techniques to make life easier, increasing dental workload and income for the practice and most importantly improving patient care.
What the course will help the attendees to do
- To understand the benefits of dental radiography
- To use dental radiography routinely in their practice
- To understand positioning to allow visualisation of teeth
- To recognise normal anatomy and common pathology
- To educate clients as to the benefits of radiography
- To allow practices to charge properly for quality work
Learning objectives
By the end of this course, delegates should have an understanding of the following:
- Dental equipment - choosing the right stuff
- Dental films, exposures, developing and processing
- Digital dental radiography
- Relevant Health & Safety issues
- Extra-Oral Techniques
- Intra-Oral Techniques
- Positioning - parallel technique
- Positioning - understanding the mysteries of Bisecting Angle Technique
- Technical errors and troubleshooting
- Principles of Interpretation
- Practical dental radiographic anatomy
- Understanding age related dental radiographic changes
- Developmental problems and anomalies
- Interpretation of Periodontal Disease
- Interpretation of Endodontic disease
- Caries
- FORLs
- Oral Trauma
- Oral Neoplasia
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