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Small Animal Dental Equipment, Materials and Techniques: A Primer

ISBN: 978-0-470-34480-4

February 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

432 pages

Description
If you’re a veterinarian in practice and you’re interested in increasing your ability to deliver dental treatment to your patients, you will find the information in Small Animal Dental Equipment, Materials, and Techniques: A Primer invaluable. The author has gone back to basics to fill in the gap between limited and advanced veterinary dental services. This book will show you how to establish an efficient dental operatory and perform many of the day-to-day techniques required to raise your level of dental services.

The goal of this book is to educate veterinarians and veterinary technicians on the philosophy and means of integrating dental health practices into the everyday life of their patients. The author also explains how to choose dental equipment and materials as well as how to perform basic and intermediate dental procedures based on examination finding. Coverage includes the materials, equipment, and techniques that veterinarians have found most valuable in the practice of veterinary dentistry.

About the Author
Jan Bellows, DVM is a veterinarian with over twenty-five years experience in small animal medicine and surgery. He is a board certified veterinary dentist as well as a boarded companion animal specialist. Dr. Bellows sees dental referrals at Hometown Animal Hospital and Dental Clinic in Weston, Florida
Features

  • Step-by-step instructions on setting up an office for dental procedures;



  • Details how to integrate complex dental practices and therapeutics into everyday practice;



  • Contains comprehensive lists of dental terms at the end of each chapter and a full glossary.