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| Welcome to VETERINARY DENTAL CONSULTING. The mission of this web site is to be a resource for people interested in pet dentistry and pet oral health. The web site can educate pet owners about problems their pets can have, as well as ways to promote good oral health and treatment options for different dental problems. VETERINARY DENTAL CONSULTING is also a resource to provide training and education about pet dental health issues to pet professionals: veterinary students, veterinarians, veterinary technicians and veterinary assistants. Check out the schedule of upcoming seminars. VETERINARY DENTAL CONSULTING is also a resource for other pet dental connections, consulting, questions about cases, equipment and procedures via email @ Pat@veterinarydentalconsulting.com. Contact info; VETERINARY DENTAL CONSULTING 2210 W. Main St. Ste, 107, #218 Battleground, WA 98604
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| | PATRICIA FROST FITCH, DVM Diplomate American Veterinary Dental College
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| I am the business owner of Veterinary Dental Consulting. My mission in life is to promote health and well being for all creation. I am passionate about animals, nature, horseback riding and oral health for pets.
I have been involved in dentistry for 28 years. Starting at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, I had the first residency to include dentistry from 1980-82. In 1982 I wrote my first booklet on dentsitry, "A Compendium on Canine Dentistry" published by Day Communications and distributed by Nabisco Brands Inc. at conferences and to veterinary schools. It had five editions before being discontinued.
In 1989 I started working on a dentistry textbook with Drs. Steve Holmstrom and Ron Gammon while I was living in California. It was published by WB Saunders in 1992 as Veterinary Dental Techniques. It was also translated into Japanese, Italian and Spanish. In 1996 a second edition was published with Dr. Ed Eisner stepping in for Dr. Gammon. An updated 3rd edition published in 2004 is available through Elsevier.
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| In my dentistry career I have been in private practice, a referral practice and a temporary fill-in at the University of California veterinary school dentistry service for 1 year. In 1989 I applied for, took and passed the first exam for the newly formed specialty college, the American Veterinary Dental College (AVDC). There are now just over 100 board certified veterinary dentists in the AVDC. In 1995 I started my own business, Veterinary Dental Consulting, as I had moved to the northwest and due to arthritis in my hands was backing off clinical dentistry. I turned more to using my experience and knowledge to mentor others and provide in-house training at veterinary hospitals looking to upgrade their dental services and educate their staff.
Currently I spend Wednesday's and part of the first and third Tuesday at North Portland Veterinary Hospital, Portland, OR, as Animal Dental Services, seeing referral cases in all areas of dentistry. There are several area hospitals that I go into to do challenging dentistry cases.
About everyother month I travel to Fresno, CA for several days where I have been doing dentistry cases at the Pet Medical Center and Spa as well as in-house trainings at other clinics in the central valley and the occasional seminar as well.
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| In 1997 I started partnering with Dr. Barry Staley, a retired board certified human periodontist, to give various levels of seminars on basic dentistry and periodontal disease treatment until 2000. I also spent two years on the national lecture circuit, speaking about Small Animal Dentistry and Ultrasonics, sponsored by Periogene in 1997-98. These experiences encouraged me to start my own series of dentistry seminars as part of my Veterinary Dental Consulting business and I have been holding 9-10 seminars a year in the Vancouver, WA/Portland, OR area. I expanded to central Oregon partnering with Dr. Andrea van de Wetering in Albany, OR in 2003. See the page on seminars offered and a current schedule.
For 18 months in 2003-2004 and again in 2006 I was on the lecture circuit with ContinuEd speaking monthly around the country sharing my passion for recognizing and treating pet oral health problems.
I have future plans to expand the dental training capabilities of Veterinary Dental Consulting to include more intensive, hands on training on a variety of dental topics.
For 10 years I taught a 2 day dentistry course for senior veterinary students at Oregon State University have taught a 4-5 day dentistry elective course at Washington State University.
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| I love to teach. Along the way, I learned how important listening and communication is to my work and life. I became involved as a trainer in training for the Institute of Global Listening and Communication in 2000 and became a certified trainer to facilitate workshops about listening and communication skills for work and daily living. See the Institute website at: www.listeningprofitsu.com.
When I am not involved in any of these endeavors I enjoy spending time with my husband, Ron, our three cats, two dogs and donkey or riding my horse, Misty, on the trails of SW Washington and Oregon.
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