All Things Dentistry; Lessons from the Trench(mouth)es

Small animal veterinary dentistry is challenging and many of us learned it through trial by fire. Looking back on 10 years as a small animal general practitioner and 6 years in dental specialty, I have considered what advice I would give myself as a new grad that might have taken some of the stress out of those earlier years. This lecture if a hodge podge of pearls of wisdom and hard-learned lessons. In no particular order, we will discuss what instruments/burs can help improve efficiency. You've heard about staging procedures, how can you utilize that to increase your quality of care, while saving your schedule? What is the current thought behind bonding fractured teeth? And Consil? And Doxirobe? What procedures should I offer to clients and which ones might not be worth the trouble? This lecture if a hodge-podge of pearls of wisdom and hard-learned lessons from the trench(mouth)es.