The Veterinary Dental Patient: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the veterinary dental patient and offers guidance on all aspects of integrating dentistry into veterinary general practice

The Veterinary Dental Patient: A Multidisciplinary Approach helps veterinarians understand the dental aspects of every canine and feline patient and shows them how to effectively manage their oral health. It also provides guidance to the rest of the veterinary team so they can offer a coordinated approach when recommending and performing veterinary dentistry as a regular part of general practice.

Edited by two prominent veterinary dentists who are Board Certified in both Europe and the United States, the text includes the latest information on safe anesthetic and monitoring protocols, accurate diagnosis and management, and referring patients to specialists. Chapters cover: establishing a dental presence in general veterinary practice; nutrition, oral health, and feeding dental patients; local, regional, and systemic complications of dental diseases; pain management; ophthalmic considerations; common situations for malpractice and mistakes; oral and maxillofacial surgery; extraction techniques and equipment; drug dosages and more. The book also offers several helpful appendixes.

The Veterinary Dental Patient: A Multidisciplinary Approach is an essential book for all vets in general small animal practice as well as the wider veterinary team, including managers, veterinary nurses and technicians, and administrative staff.

Table of contents

Part 1. General considerations. How to start dentistry

Chapter 1 Establishing a dental presence in general veterinary practice

JERZY GAWOR

Chapter 2  Marketing and Communication in veterinary dentistry. RACHEL PERRY

Chapter 3 TEACHING VETERINARY DENTISTRY.  ZLATKO PAVLICA, JERZY GAWOR

Chapter 4 Distribution of tasks around dental patient in general practice: reception, technicians and other veterinary team members. MARY BERG

Chapter 5  Prophylactic programme for oral health. BROOK NIEMIEC

Chapter 6 Nutrition, oral health and feeding dental patients.  MICHAL JANK

Chapter 7 ANTIMICROBIALS IN VETERINARY DENTISTRY. SCOTT WEESE

Chapter 8 DENTAL PATIENT WELFARE: KYMBERLEY STEWART

Part 2 Dental Patient

Chapter 9 Local, Regional and Systemic Complications of Dental Diseases JERZY GAWOR

Chapter 10 Hereditary ORAL disorders in pUREBRED dogs and cats. JERZY GAWOR.

Chapter 11 Pain management in the dental patient PAOLO STEAGALL, PETER PASCOE

Chapter 12 ANESTHESIA OF THE DENTAL PATIENT.   VICTORIA LUKASIK.

Chapter 13   DENTAL PATIENT AND ITS GENERAL CONDITIONS: CARDIAC DISEASE, DIABETES MELLITUS, PREGNANCY, HISTORY OF SEIZURES AND BRACHYCEPHALIC SYNDROME.  EVA  EBERSPAECHER-SCHWEDA.

Chapter 14. Ophthalmic Considerations in the Veterinary Dental Patient JAMIE SCHORLING

Chapter 15. Oral health in context of other planned surgeries. DANIEL KOCH

Chapter 16  SYSTEMIC DISEASES INFLUENCING ORAL HEALTH AND CONDITIONS.  JERZY GAWOR

Chapter 17 Common situations for malpractice and mistakes, and how to best avoid them. JERZY GAWOR, BROOK NIEMIEC

Chapter 18 Dentistry through life - pediatric and geriatric dentistry. JERZY GAWOR BROOK NIEMIEC

Part 3  Dentistry in daily practice What every veterinarian should know.

Chapter 19. MANAGEMENT OF DENTAL PATIENT   JERZY GAWOR, BROOK NIEMIEC

Chapter 20 THE COMPLETE DENTAL PROPHYLAXIS   BROOK NIEMIEC

Chapter 21 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, why it is different? JERZY GAWOR

Chapter 22 EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES AND EQUIPMENT. BROOK NIEMIEC

Chapter 23 Oral Emergencies  JERZY GAWOR

Chapter 24 FELINE DENTISTRY JERZY GAWOR

Part 4  When to call the specialist

Chapter 25  Brief introduction to specific oral and dental problems that require specialist care.  Jerzy GAwor

Chapter 26 How to cooperate with a specialist. Brook NIemiec

Appendix

A. DRUGS AND DOSES MARGO KARRIKER

B. Instruments handling and sharpening JERZY GAWOR

C. Abbreviations and dental charts  JERZY GAWOR

D. List of hereditary problems and breed predispositions in dogs and cats  JERZY GAWOR

E. TOLERANCE of malocclusion and dental abnormalities in Dogs breeds. JERZY GAWOR

Jerzy Gawor, DVM, PhD, DAVDC, DEVDC, FAVD, provides dental teaching services at the European School of Advanced Veterinary Studies in Europe and China. Dr Gawor acts as President of the European Veterinary Dental College and Dental Guidelines Committee of WSAVA. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Veterinary Dentistry, President Elect of the Federation of European Companion Animal Veterinary Associations (FECAVA), board member of the Polish Small Animal Veterinary Association, and former President of the European Veterinary Dental Society. He is the owner of a general referral practice and has achieved the status of specialist and recognized dentist in Poland.

Several hundred advanced dentistry procedures a year have resulted in a wealth of skill and practical knowledge. He has also published and presented over 120 publications in veterinary dentistry.

Brook Niemiec DVM, DAVDC, DEVDC, FAVD, is the Chief of Staff at Southern California Veterinary Dental Specialties & Oral Surgery, with 13 locations throughout the USA.  In addition, he is Founding Consultant of www.vetdentalrad.com, Director of San Diego Veterinary Dental Training Center, and President of Practical Veterinary Publishing.