The Whole Cat Approach to Dentistry

October 26 - 27, 2025

Course Description

This course is designed for: General practitioners who are interested in increasing their proficiency in hands-on dentistry skills, but who also want to improve their comfort managing common feline diseases

Dental extractions are some of the most common surgical procedures performed in small animal practice, yet many practitioners struggle with feeling confident about their surgical extraction skills. This course will aim to increase your comfort, not only with that important skill, but also with your ability to determine which teeth need to be extracted in the first place! In this hybrid course, we will spend the first day covering topics relating to our ability to diagnose and manage common feline diseases. Dentistry always requires anesthesia, so we will spend time focused on creating safe anesthetic protocols for cats. During the second day of the course, we will focus on feline regional anesthesia and extractions.

This course will include four hours of online education and 16 hours of in-person lecture and laboratory

Our goal is for you to return to your practice confident in diagnosing and managing common feline diseases, anesthetizing feline patients, interpreting radiographs and performing extractions!

Access to this course will expire one year (365 days) from the course’s end date. After this period, users will no longer have access to course materials, resources, and any associated content. It is the responsibility of the users to complete the course and download any materials including their course completion certificate.

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Agenda

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Instructors

Dr. Naomi Hoyer

DVM, DAVDC

Naomi Hoyer is an Assistant Professor of Dentistry and Oral Surgery at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University. She graduated from Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in 2002. She worked in general practice for 10 years before starting her dental residency in private practice. She became an AVDC Diplomate in 2017. She left private practice in 2018 to pursue her passion for dentistry education. She hopes to share her love of dentistry with as many students and practitioners as possible. Her professional interests include management of periodontal disease and developmental maxillofacial disease.

Dr. Pedro Boscan

DVM degree obtained in 1996 at the veterinary school from Venezuela. After a small animal anesthesia internship at Utrecht University, Netherlands; I did a neuroscience MSc at University of Andalucia (Spain) with strong emphasis in pain processing. Obtained a PhD from University of Bristol, UK working on CNS integration of pain, cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Veterinary anesthesia residency at UC Davis. Clinical fellow in anesthesia and critical care at UC Davis for one year. Anesthesia faculty at CSU for 18 years. Currently professor of anesthesia and service chief at CSU.

Dr. Craig Webb

DVM, DACVIM

After completing his PhD in Neuroscience, Dr. Webb earned his DVM from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Webb did his internship at Alameda East in Denver where he experienced his 15 minutes of fame on Animal Planets “Emergency Vets” TV show. Dr. Webb was a resident at CSU with Dr. David Twedt as his mentor, and has remained on faculty at the VTH ever since.

Dr. Camille R. Torres-Henderson

DVM, DABVP, DACVIM (Nutrition)

Dr. Camille Torres attended Colorado State for her undergraduate and veterinary education. After she earned her DVM in 2001, she went into small animal private practice in Albuquerque, N.M. She joined Community Practice at the James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital in 2008, and earned her feline and canine DABVP certification in 2011. As a general practitioner, she has observed the power of preventive medicine. Seeing how preventing disease can be so much easier for a pet than treatment led her to explore the effects of obesity on companion animals and nutrition’s role in obesity management. Her enthusiasm for nutrition in multiple areas inspired her to seek additional training in the field of nutrition at CSU, and she became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Nutrition) in 2021. Her furry family consists of one cat, a Corgi, and a Yorkiepoo. She enjoys spending time with her husband and their two boys, taking every opportunity to participate in the wonderful outdoor activities that Colorado has to offer.

Dr. Elissa Randall

Elissa Randall got her DVM from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. She completed a Diagnostic Imaging Residency at Colorado State University, followed by three years as faculty at Michigan State University. Elissa was lucky to be able to return to Colorado and CSU and has been faculty there since 2008. She enjoys all aspects and all modalities of small animal imaging. Areas of research interest include sentinel lymph node mapping, imaging cancer with PETCT, and other aspects of oncologic imaging.

Travel

Questions about where to stay while you’re here? Our “Hotel Map” shows a few of the closest hotels to CSU VetCE.

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Policies

Participant Cancellation Policy: Course attendees can cancel their registration for an in-person course according to the following

Cancellation more than 60 days prior: Full refund or 100% Future Transfer Credit (FTC).
Cancellation 30-60 days prior: 50% refund or 75% FTC.
Cancellations within 30 days: 50% FTC only. Cancellations due to illness or other unforeseen circumstances will be considered on an individual basis.
Future Transfer Credits can be applied to any course within 365 days of the cancelled course.

Course Cancellation Policy: Course cancellations due to low registration numbers or other circumstances may be announced 35 days or more prior to the course. Full refund of the course registration or 100% Future Transfer Credit (FTC) will apply. We are unable to reimburse for travel expenses incurred.

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