Workshops & Courses
Workshops and Courses at VDEC
The Centre offers a “state of the art” teaching facility, an outdoor area for attendees to enjoy lunch and refreshment breaks, whilst sharing ideas and asking questions, and a lecture/wet lab area for tuition and workshops.
There are individual work stations each equipped with high and low speed drills, air-water syringes, and quick disconnects for ultrasonic scalers. Each dental work station has complete instrumentation for the course taught. In addition, on site there are Acteon XMind DC dental radiographic xray generators, Sopix2 DR sensors, PSPix CR plates and computers, amalgamators and a model cutter. Each attendee has access to their own set of instruments, loupes, dental models and specimens. There is no sharing of instruments, no time searching for the right materials or waiting for equipment.
WHAT’S UNIQUE
NO DOG CADAVERS. WE USE SIMULATION MODELS SPECIALLY MADE FOR THE VETERINARY DENTAL EDUCATION CENTRE. ANIMAL ETHICS IS ONE OF OUR PRIMARY GOALS. NO DOG HAS BEEN EUTHANSED FOR OUR COURSES.
Feline Radiology, Analgesia and Extractions in the Feline
Course Details:
Date: May 5th 2023.
Who can attend: Veterinarians
Cost: $1650 (includes subscription to VDEC and Vet Dental Charts)
Venue: VDEC Training Centre, 81 Belgrave-Hallam Rd, Hallam Vic 3803
A number of companion animals do not receive adequate periodontal homecare and suffer advanced dental pathology that requires oral surgery including extractions. A large number of fractures are not able to be saved by endodontic treatment and require extraction, so analgesia and an easy, less traumatic tooth removal is ideal. At this course you will greatly improve your dental skills as we cover: Analgesia and use of local analgesic agents, anatomy for nerve blocks, radiology positioning and interpretation, simple and surgical extractions, raising a muco-gingival flap, osteotomy techniques, tooth sectioning in the feline patient.
Canine 1. Oral Examination, Periodontal disease, Radiology.
Course Details:
Date: 2023 dates: June 22nd, August 17th, September 13th
Who can attend: Veterinarians
Cost: $1950
Venue: VDEC Training Centre, 81 Belgrave-Hallam Rd, Hallam Vic 3803
The majority of dogs do not receive adequate oral care and periodontal treatment and suffer advanced dental pathology that requires treatment. At this course you will greatly improve your dental skills as we cover:
Oral examination
Dental Charting
Periodontal disease treatment – scaling/polishing
Open and Closed root planing
Use of perioceuticals
Radiology – taking high quality images, interpretation of the images and pathology.
Canine 2. Local Analgesia and Extractions in the Canine
Course Details:
Date: 2023 dates: June 23rd, August 18th, September 14th
Who can attend: Veterinarians
Cost: $1950 (includes subscription to VDEC, Vet Dental Charts and D.A.V.I.D. with a 2-day registration)
Venue: VDEC Training Centre, 81 Belgrave-Hallam Rd, Hallam Vic 3803
Advanced dental pathology that requires oral surgery includes extractions, as a large number of fractures are not able to be saved by endodontic treatment. Therefore, analgesia and an easy, less traumatic tooth removal is required on a day-to-day basis, as well as treatment of extraction-based complications. At this course you will greatly improve your dental skills as we cover: Analgesia and use of local analgesic agents
Anatomy for nerve blocks
Simple and surgical extractions, including raising a muco-gingival flap, osteotomy techniques, and tooth sectioning, for incisors, canines, premolar and molar teeth in the dog.
Closure of oro-nasal fistulas in the canine patient.
Saving Teeth – Alternatives to Extraction
Course Details:
Date: 2023 dates: March 24th, August 25th, September 8th
Who can attend: Veterinarians
Cost: $1,950
Venue: VDEC Training Centre, 81 Belgrave-Hallam Rd, Hallam Vic 3803
Tooth pathology is limited to the crown.
We are trained to evaluate pathology and any condition that affects the enamel or the tooth crown is extracted. I see so many teeth being taken out it is disturbing. Now the manufacturers of radiology equipment have everyone take radiographs, more pathology is diagnosed and therefore more teeth are extracted. We could change this with some education on ‘Saving Teeth’!!
In this course we learn how to treat:
Conditions:
- Uncomplicated crown fractures with enamel and dentine exposed – pulp NOT exposed
- Enamel hypoplasia or carious lesion
Treatment: Composite restoration
Conditions:
- Recent complicated crown fractures – pulp exposure <48hrs
- Lingu-verted mandibular canine teeth
Treatment:
- Crown reduction and direct pulp capping
- Vital pulp capping
- Coronal extensions
Endodontics (Root Canals)
Course Details:
Date:
Dates Yet To Be Announced
Who can attend:
Veterinarians with an ANZCVS membership and bring a nurse to assist
Cost:
$4,950.00
Venue:
VDEC Training Centre, 81 Belgrave-Hallam Rd, Hallam Vic 3803
Endodontics or the treatment of the tooth’s root and pulp canals, gives the veterinarian disease management options other than extraction. The tooth root comprises a significant portion of the jaw integrity and extraction may not be only difficult but leads to a weakened jaw bone. Tooth preservation enables the animal to maintain its dentition and prevents further injury. Whether providing endodontic treatment for a slab fracture of the maxillary carnassial tooth or a canine tooth, endodontic therapy gives the veterinarian important treatment options. Radiology forms a major component in the endodontic discipline and attendance at the radiology course or evidence of radiology skills and access to radiographic equipment in the clinic is a pre-requisite. This course provides diagnosis of tooth pathology and the delivery of treatment will discuss indications for root canal therapy, equipment and materials required for root canal therapy, debridement and obturation techniques, restorative materials and their usage as applied to endodontic access sites.
VETERINARY DENTISTRY IMCVD COURSE
With Dr David E Clarke
Advanced Course Mentorship for ANZCVS exam preparation
The ANZCVS course Mentorship program will provide basic and advanced training in dentistry to give you confidence in the theory and practice of veterinary dentistry in preparation to sit the ANZCVS Membership exam. Of course we can sit it for you or guarantee you will pass, but we would be pretty disappointed if you did not pass with flying colours.
Course Details
This course covers the veterinary dentistry topics:
1. Introduction to Dentistry: Anatomy and Oral Examination
2. Periodontal disease, Aetiology, Pathogenesis, Scaling/Polishing
3. Periodontal Disease: Open and Closed Root Planing, Periodontal Flaps, Homecare
4. Oral Surgery 1: Simple Extractions of Canine teeth
5. Oral Surgery 2: Difficult Extractions, Complications, Repair of Oro-nasal Fistulas in dogs
6. Local Anaesthetics
7. Radiology
8. Pocket Pets: Rabbits
9. Emergency Dentistry: The initial treatments of trauma to the tooth: periodontal and endodontic treatments: Direct Pulp Capping
10. Feline Dentistry: Radiology and Extractions, Inflammatory diseases
11. Endodontics: Root Canal Therapy
12. Pedodontics: Puppy and Kitten Dentistry
13. Oral Surgery 3: Oral Tumours
14. Oral Surgery 4: Fracture Repair
15. Orthodontics
16. Prosthodontics: Restorations and Crowns
The course is focused on virtual presentations, live and pre-recorded webinars, practical videos, pictures and case studies to ensure you have the knowledge to tackle dental problems and conditions as they present on a day-to-day within your clinic. All education, including presentations and notes, case studies and question/answer sessions will be provided. The course will be presented in line with the Membership requirements and based on the textbook, Wiggs’ Veterinary Dentistry. During the course, practical workshops will be available at set times to cover the knowledge and practical skills to perform the majority of dentistry procedures in small animal practice. A certificate of completion will be awarded and each person should be able to successfully pass the Membership examinations of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Veterinary Dentistry.
Presentations will be given each month on Friday afternoon 4-6pm AET. Lecture notes for each topic will be available on the website. Case studies and question/answer session will be available each month and expectation that attendees will provide regular discussion on clinical cases they are treating during the month guided by the tutors. The current tutors are all Diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Dentistry: Drs David Clarke, Angus Fechney and Kirsty Hailstone.
Each participant will be provided with a unique course username and password. Each topic will be examined and requires successful pass of a multi-choice questionnaire, a case study question and videos of the work performed. Each topic must be passed to receive the Certificate.
Cost:
Cost of the complete course is $16,500 AUD.