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Applied Clinical Companion Animal Odontology
Module 5 - Enhance your skills in companion animal odontology through advanced clinical decision-making, diagnostic methodologies, and therapeutic approaches, focusing on periodontology and endodontology.
This course is a part of
Companion Animal ODONTOLOGY - Advanced course - Module 5
The purpose of this course module is to further develop the skills of the student within the discipline of companion animal odontology.
The level of prior knowledge and skills within clinical odontology from both the veterinary candidate level and the first part of the master-education will be developed in order to form a solid platform within clinical odontology.
In theory and by practical exercises, the participant can expect that professional skills and competences within the subject of clinical companion animal odontology will be extended.
The participants’ knowledge, professional skills and competences within clinical odontology will be enhanced through theoretical seminars, practicals and case-based exercises.
The participants will be encouraged to define, identify and discuss clinical methodology, including identification of clinical odontological lesions, and paraclinical tools in systematised reflective clinical decision making in companion animal odontology.
The course will extend the students assessment and management of the complex patient in need of dental and oral care and plan the perioperative management of the patient including special anaesthesia and analgesia requirements.
For more details about the course, please refer to the course curriculum.
Read more about the specialisation tracks and the Master's programme on the main page:
Course Directors on Applied Clinical Companion Animal Odontology
Annemarie Thuri KristensenProfessor |
Hanne E. KortegaardAssistant Professor |
Course details on Applied Clinical Companion Animal Odontology
Dates and examination
Course dates 2025
10 - 14 November 2025
Course dates 2027
15 - 19 November 2027
Only available every second year.
Examination
Please find dates and details about the exam in the exam schedule.
Learning outcomes
Having completed the course, the student must be able to:
Knowledge
- Define, identify and discuss veterinary methodology and paraclinical tools in systematized reflective clinical decision making in companion animal clinical odontology
- Explain, reflect about and demonstrate overview of complex clinical decision making, patient therapy and management in companion clinical odontology
- List, classify, and demonstrate critical reflection on existing and new approaches to patient diagnosis, therapy, management and client education in a specialty practice situation within odontology.
Skills
Within the area of clinical companion animal odontology the graduate will be able to:
Apply the quantitative and qualitative methodologies and tools as well as master relevant skills within companion animal odontology - especially in periodontology and endodontology.
- Perform clinical and para clinical workup to set a correct diagnosis using especially dental radiography.
- Decision making in regards to choice of treatment options.
- Perform dental prophylactic treatment for periodontal disease
- Perform surgical periodontal treatment including applying advanced surgical technologies.
- Perform non-surgical and surgical tooth extractions.
- Continuously seek out, reflect on and apply new evidence based diagnostic, therapeutic and monitoring approaches incl. the use of systematic critical review of pertinent literature
- Communicate and discuss academic issues with both peers and non-specialists and across disciplines within companion animal odontology practice
- Communicate effectively in writing and pass on results to relevant parties – especially in guidance of clients.
Competences
Following the course, the candidate must be able to:
- Interpret, assess and reflect on collected patient data in order to identify/localize the cause of disease, make clinical decisions, arrive at a diagnosis, apply, and integrate evidence based scientific approaches to plan and administer further diagnostics, patient therapy and management in companion animal patients with common oral diseases especially within periodontology and endodontology.
- Work independently, take responsibility for, predict, prognosticate and make decisions within companion animal clinical odontology.
- Collaborate constructively within and between specialists/professionals and lay persons involved in companion animal odontology patient management.
- Make ethical considerations regarding diagnostic methods and therapies in companion animal clinical odontology and place these into perspective.
- Independently evaluate and structure own learning processes and continuously obtain new knowledge at an advanced level within companion animal odontology
Admission criteria
You must meet the following criteria to be admitted to this course:
- Hold a degree in Veterinary Medicine
- Hold one of the following certifications
- DVA Certificate in Small Animal Diseases (equivalent to the 4 compulsory courses of the Master of Companion Animal Clinical Science)
- Swedish / Norwegian / Finnish specialist in diseases of dogs and cats
- Equivalent competences
- Have a minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience from companion animal practice
- Be proficient in English
Find detailed information about the formal requirements for this course.
Read more about admission on the main page of Master of Companion Animal Clinical Science.
Tuition fees
EU/EEA citizens*
Single course student: 36,500 DKK
Master student: 33,000 DKK
Non-EU/EEA citizens
Single course student: 40,740 DKK
Master student: 37,240 DKK
Tuition fees include course materials and lunch/coffee. Books are not included in the tuition fees and must be purchased by the participants.
*Citizens of the EU, EEA or Switzerland is entitled to a subsidised tuition fee, due to EU legislation, hence the difference in price.
Location
University of Copenhagen
University Hospital for Companion Animals
Dyrlægevej 16
1958 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Contact
Christine Gulstad
Study Administration Officer
Tel.: +45 35 32 12 73
Annemarie Thuri Kristensen
Professor
DVM, PhD, DACVIM-SA, ECVIM-CA and Oncology
Professor Annemarie T. Kristensen is the Study director at Master Companion Animal Clinical Sciences as well as lecturer at the compulsory part of the Masters programme and at the Internal Medicine, Surgery and Oncology specialisation tracks.
Clinical and research interests: Clinical and comparative veterinary research, especially diagnostic, pathogenetic, and therapeutic aspects of hemostasis, thrombosis, inflammation and cancer.
Post doctoral research associate at The Platelet Research Laboratory, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota.
Worked for six years with research within hemostasis, thrombosis, angiogenesis and atherosclerosis at Novo Nordisk A/S. In 2000 recruited as Associate Professor in Small Animal Internal Medicine, Dept. of Clinical Studies, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen. Since 2007 full professor Companion Animal Clinical Oncology. Since 2004, Section Head, Medicine, Oncology and Veterinary Clinical Pathology, Dept. of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Director ECVIM- internal medicine and oncology residency programmes. Study director, Master Companion Animal Clinical Sciences and Vice chair Danish Research Council for Technology and Production.
Hanne E. Kortegaard
Assistant Professor
DVM, PhD, Dipl. EVDC
Dr. Hanne E. Kortegaard is a national specialist (specialdyrlæge) and Diplomate to the European Veterinary Dental College at University of Copenhagen, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences.
On a daily basis Hanne is Head of the Dental Clinic at the Companion Animal Hospital at University of Copenhagen and also part of the surgery team.
Background
She graduated from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen in 1992, got her PhD degree in 2004.
She has completed her residency programme in maxillofacial surgery and dentistry with international supervision, and graduated as a Diplomate in 2017.