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Continuing Education at Hale Veterinary Clinic

Providing veterinary dental care to pet animals is only part of what Dr. Hale does. He has also been very busy educating veterinarians and technicians all over the world.

Up coming dates include:

We now have some programs scheduled for our Guelph location as well as other dates away.

Midwest Veterinary Conference Columbus, Ohio Feb 23-26, 2012

Veterinary Dentistry on the Fly Los Roques, Venezuela Feb 2-9, 2013

Our large treatment room comfortably accommodates eight participants for a workshop on instrument sharpening.
Dental Instrument Sharpening Workshop Primarily for RVTs September 14, 2011 1:00 to 4:00 pm SOLD OUT	The course outlines the basic anatomy of dental scalers and curettes, the principles of sharpening (why and how) and the materials needed. Following the lecture there is a two-hour hands-on session during which participants get to practice their new skills. As well as scalers and curettes, sharpening of dental and periosteal elevators is taught. Course included lecture notes, coarse and fine sharpening stones, acrylic test stick and supply of sharpening angle guides.
Understanding Veterinary Dentistry For DVMs and RVTs	A two-day lecture series. Topics will include anatomy, physiology, pathology, equipment, radiology/radiography, juvenile dentistry, feline issues, oral pathology, periodontal disease pathogenesis, prevention and management and oral surgery (flaps, extractions, wound closure...).
Dental Radiology Wet Lab For DVMs and RVTs September 21, 2011 8:00 to noon SOLD OUT	This wet-lab will give participants an opportunity to practice intra-oral radiography working on sensor and tube-head positioning, exposure, processing and interpretation.
Dental Radiology Wet Lab For DVMs and RVTs September 21, 2011 1:00 - 5:00 SOLD OUT	This wet-lab will give participants an opportunity to practice intra-oral radiography working on sensor and tube-head positioning, exposure, processing and interpretation.
Dental Radiographic Interpretation This will be a major focus of the LifeLearn program on October 15, 2011	Getting diagnostic intra-oral dental radiographs is only the first step. Accurate interpretation of the images is equally important. This interactive session will help you along that learning curve. Participants will be encouraged to send/bring along some of their images (in digital format). Following a brief review of dental/oral anatomy and the basics of interpretation, we will look a a number of images and discuss what we are seeing, what it all means and what recommendations we would make based on those images.
CE Elsewhere	The Veterinary Dental Forum is the one dental conference each year that you should not miss. In 2012, the meeting will be in Seattle from November 8 to 11. www.veterinarydentalforum.com is the website for the forum and is the place to go to see the program and to register. The site also maintains a comprehensive list of dental CE opportunities around the world and so is an excellent resource.
Inter-net based modular course	Dr. Manfra-Maretta at the University of Illinois has put together an inter-net based dental CE program. Here is the link - http://vetmed.illinois.edu/veo/courses_clinical_dentistry.html The program is very reasonably priced for practitioners. Veterinary students can take the course for about 10% of the regular cost - an incredible bargain.
Destination CE	In March of 2011, I gave a series of lectures in Los Roques, Venezuela. This was not your average CE meeting. We were in Los Roques to fish by day and talk veterinary dentistry by night. By all accounts, those in attendance deemed the adventure a great success and so we are going to do it again. If you are interested in learning more, click here. My guide and I got into a school of bonita feeding frantically on the surface. For an hour or more, we had fish on both lines more often than not. What a blast!
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