The Veterinary Dental Patient: A Multidisciplinary Approach 1st Edition

Your Multidisciplinary Guide to the Veterinary Dental Patient

This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to the veterinary dental patient and offers guidance on all aspects of integrating dentistry into veterinary general practice. It helps veterinarians understand the dental aspects of every canine and feline patient and provides guidance to the rest of the veterinary team to offer a coordinated approach when performing veterinary dentistry as a regular part of general practice.

Key Features

• Multidisciplinary Approach: It provides a multidisciplinary approach to the veterinary dental patient and offers guidance on all aspects of integrating dentistry into veterinary general practice.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Chapters cover establishing a dental presence, nutrition, oral health, and feeding dental patients; local, regional, and systemic complications of dental diseases; pain management; ophthalmic considerations; and common situations for malpractice and mistakes.
• Surgical Techniques: The book also covers oral and maxillofacial surgery, extraction techniques and equipment, and drug dosages.
• Latest Information: The text includes the latest information on safe anesthetic and monitoring protocols, accurate diagnosis and management, and referring patients to specialists.
• Broad Audience: 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.