Dentistry
Dentistry: Small Mammals


registration open
Dublin / Ireland
23.08.2025 – 27.08.2025
EURO 3.150.-*
EURO 3.050.-*(early registration deadline: 01.03.2025)
* eLibrary access is included in the course fee
Total hours: 40
ATF hours (Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland): TBA
ECTS credits (Master & Certificate): 5
Principal Course Master:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vladimír Jekl, Ph.D., DECZM (CZ)
Course Masters:
Dr. Jan Schreyer DEVDC (DE),
Dr. Jerzy Gawor DAVDC, DEVDC (PL)
Instructor:
Dr. Daria Ziemann (PL)
Course Overview
The number of exotic companion mammals is growing, especially rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas and ferrets. ESAVS Small Mammal Dentistry course is responding to growing need of general practitioners as well as profiled exotic animal clinics to learn more about dental and maxillofacial problems in rabbits, rodents and ferrets. Participant will receive theoretical and practical knowledge about clinical anatomy, pathophysiology of dental disease, clinical and radiographic assessment of oral and dental/skull structures, computed tomography examination, and surgical approaches to particular dental disorders (extraction techniques, extraoral approach to the odontogenic abscesses, apicoectomy, etc.).
Course Program (Subject to change)
Saturday, 23 August 2025
08:30 – 09:00 Welcome and Registration
09:00 – 09:45 Lecture: Exotic Companion Mammals in Veterinary Practice – importance od dental
disease 09:45 – 11:00 Lecture: Oral and Dental Anatomy and Physiology of Rabbits, Guinea pigs,
Chinchillas and degus 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:15 Lecture: Oral and Dental Anatomy and Physiology of Ferrets and Small “Pockets
”Rodents 12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:00 Lecture: Basic Dental Equipment and Instrumentation 14:00 – 14:45 Lecture: Local
and General Anaesthesia
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 – 17:00 Demo and Practical: Oral Examination and Charting, Local Anaesthesia
Sunday, 24 August 2025
09:00 – 09:45 Lecture: Oral Radiography (how to get a good diagnostic dental radiograph)
09:45 – 11:15 Lecture: Radiographic Interpretation (normal anatomy and typical pathological findings) of Rabbits, Guinea pigs,
Chinchillas and degus
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:00 Lecture: Radiographic Interpretation (normal anatomy and typical pathological findings) of Ferrets and Small
Pocket Rodents
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:15 Demo and Practical: Oral Radiography
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:00 Demo and Practical: Oral Radiography
Monday, 25 August 2025
09:00 – 11:15 Interactive Session: Radiographic Interpretation Rabbits, Guinea pigs, chinchillas and degus
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:00 Interactive Session: Radiographic Interpretation Ferret and Small Rodents
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:45 Lecture: Dental disease in ferrets
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Lecture: Pathophysiology of dental disease in herbivorous small mammals, Coronal premolar and molar reduction
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
09:00 – 10:00 Lecture: Incisor extraction in Rabbits and Rodents
10:00 – 10:30 Lecture: Intraoral extractions of premolars and molars in rabbits 10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15 Lecture: Extraoral extraction of premolars and molars, odontogenic abscesses in
rabbits 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – 15:00 Demo and Practical: Extraction Techniques in Rabbits 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Demo and Practical: Extraction Techniques in Rabbits
Wenesday, 27 August 2025
09:00 – 09:45 Lecture: Periodontal disease in guinea pigs and chinchillas
09:45 – 10:30 Lecture: Premolar and molar extraction in guinea pigs and chinchillas 11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Demo and Practical: Extraction Techniques Guinea Pig 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:30 Demo and Practical: Extractions in other rodents, complications and problem solving
16:30 – 17:30 Cleaning of the Lab, Farewell Drink, Outlook to following Courses
Course location
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