Become a professional in one of the most in-demand fields of the moment: train in Feline Dentistry and Oral Surgery with this comprehensive online postgraduate diploma”

The trend within the veterinary profession is to specialize in a specific field. We must be prepared to offer the best diagnostics and dental treatments available in the veterinary field today.  The demand put on this sector is increasing more and more, both on the level of a veterinary clinic and on the level of big hospital center. That is why a high grade specialization course is required.

For the last 15 years, Veterinary Dentistry has become a clinical sector with high demand among our patients' owners. Pets are increasingly coming to the Veterinary Clinic for dental treatment, which are aimed at improving the oral and dental health of our patients as well as maintaining and preserving their teeth. The role of a veterinary dentist is now a reality and, as such, we must be prepared. 

The postgraduate diploma in Feline Dentistry and Oral Surgery is a response to the needs and demands of veterinary clinicians who, based on the high number of cases they encounter, seek to offer the best service to their patients. 

The teaching team that makes up the postgraduate diploma in Feline Dentistry and Oral Surgery is composed of veterinary professionals specializing in the different subjects taught in the course, with extensive experience both at a teaching and practical level. They are familiar with university training, teaching courses, degrees and different postgraduate courses related to the veterinary profession, and specifically Feline Dentistry and Oral Surgery. These lecturers are active professionals, both at university and clinical level, working in leading veterinary centres and participating in various research projects. 

The modules developed in the postgraduate diploma in Feline Dentistry and Oral Surgery have been selected with the aim of offering the veterinary clinician the possibility of taking a step further in their future as a specialist in Dentistry and to develop specialized theoretical and practical knowledge to confidently face any oral and maxillofacial procedure that they may encounter in their daily practice. 

The advanced knowledge developed in this postgraduate diploma is supported by the clinical experience of the authors, as well as scientific articles and publications directly related to the modern day veterinary dentistry sector. 

This postgraduate diploma provides students with all the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to safely tackle any oral and maxillofacial procedure in the studied species. 

A postgraduate diploma that will enable you to work in all fields of Veterinary Dentistry with the competence of a high-level professional”

This postgraduate diploma in Feline Dentistry and Oral Surgery offers you the advantages of a high-level scientific, teaching, and technological course. These are some of its most notable features: 

• Latest technology in online teaching software
• Highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Self-regulating learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

Receive complete and appropriate training in Veterinary Dentistry with this highly effective postgraduate diploma and open new paths to your professional progress"

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals from different fields related to this specialty. In this way, we ensure that we provide you with the training update we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of professionals trained and experienced in different environments, who will cover the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will put the practical knowledge derived from their own experience at the service of the course: one of the differential qualities of this course. 

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this postgraduate diploma in Feline Dentistry and Oral Surgery. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. This way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need in your training.  

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use telepractice:  with the help of an innovative interactive video system, and learning from an expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way.

You will be supported by the experience of expert professionals who will contribute their experience in this area to the program, making this training a unique opportunity for professional growth"

Our objective is to train highly qualified professionals for work experience. An objective that is complemented, moreover, in a global manner, by promoting human development that lays the foundations for a better society. This objective is focused on helping medical professionals reach a much higher level of expertise and control. A goal that, in just six months, you will be able to achieve with a highly intensive and precise course. 

If your objective is to broaden your skills set to include new paths of success and development, this is the course for you: training that aspires to excellence" 

General Objectives

• Establish the basis of the anatomy involved in veterinary dentistry
• Provide specialized knowledge of dental and periodontal anatomical structures
• Generate specialized knowledge in comparative anatomy of dogs and cats
• Identify oral anatomical structures
• Establish the foundations of feline dentistry and establish protocols for action, generating a specific routine for the speciality
• Identify the most frequent pathologies quickly and accurately with effective and precise treatments
• Analyze diseases on the basis of good theory and in an interactive way
• Generate specialized knowledge to examine, diagnose and treat oral pathologies correctly based on the latest advances in the specialty
• Examine the main surgical pathologies occurring in the oral cavity of dogs and cats
• Diagnose any type of injury taught in this module
• Develop specialized and advanced knowledge in order to carry out medical-surgical treatment in each case in an individualised manner
• Determine the surgical techniques necessary to safely approach oral cavity surgery and thus avoid as many complications as possible

Specific Objectives

• Determine the stages of tooth development 
• Generate specialized knowledge to differentiate normal occlusion from malocclusion
• Analyse the dental anatomy in the canine and feline species
• Examine periodontal anatomy in the canine and feline species
• Develop specialized knowledge of the bone and joint anatomy of the head, muscular anatomy, neurovascular anatomy and glandular anatomy
• Establish routine guidelines for conducting an oral examination and records
• Determine preventive dentistry
• Carry out an in-depth analysis of the cat's oral pathologies
• Develop specialized knowledge on Instrumentation and general equipment
• Determine the differential diagnoses
• Generate advanced knowledge on Antibiotic and antiseptic prescribing
• Examine the specific and advanced treatments currently available
• Develop specialist knowledge in the field of cheek and lip surgery
• Recognise any pathology affecting the oral cavity and decide which diagnostic tests and treatment are most appropriate
• Determine how to deal surgically with the most common tumours of the oral cavity
• Review the most common salivary gland surgery
• Precisely determine the surgical technique to be used for different mandibular/maxillary fractures
• Examine the temporomandibular joint and the pathologies that most frequently affect it

A path to achieve specialization and professional growth that will propel you towards a greater level of competitiveness in the job market"