In case you didn’t believe Captain Toothfest was real! Spotted on the Red Carpet with celebrities at Toothfest 2023! 💪
ONE-MORE-SLEEP
until Toothfest Kicks Off !!!
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Production Credit to Dr Denis Verwilghen more than just an equine surgical and dental specialist!!! 💪🏆
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Dr Chris Pearce and Nicole Du Toit have landed safely in Sydney!
Not long to go now 💪
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The National Shortage of Rural Veterinarians - how Horses teeth can help to solve the issue!
It is no secret anymore that Veterinary Practice is struggling to remain viable in most of Australia – due largely to not being able to attract veterinarians.
We are already seeing established vet clinics close their doors in large towns, purely from not being able to find Vets. This has major negative consequences for animal welfare and consumer protection in these regions.
Part of the reason for vets not wanting to work rurally are the long hours, relatively low pay, lack of support and overload of afterhours emergency work compared to schedulable, elective work.
When too much reliance for business sustainability is on emergencies, it gets too top heavy, with too much stress, too many bad debts, poor cashflow, poor outcomes and no one really wins. Not the animals, the owners, or the vets.
The key to sustainability of any vet business model is to have enough bread-and-butter work income to accommodate for growth of the business where it can handle the more stressful and complicated lines of work such as afterhours emergencies.
One possible solution lies in the horse’s mouth – for enough routine work to support a large enough team of vets to cover emergencies.
Every rural area in Australia has lots of horses! And all horses have teeth – that for optimal health and welfare, need an annual checkup, just like in humans, dogs, and cats.
Dental disease is the most common disease of all mammals, so it’s vital that veterinarians are at the cutting edge of these diseases.
Good dental care has a major beneficial effect on the welfare of horses, given they are meant to eat for most of their waking hours.
And healthy comfortable mouths make horses safer to ride – thus helping keep the emergency rooms in hospitals less overrepresented by horse people.
We know that with some good post graduate training, some equipment and expe
Assoc Professor Denis Verwilghen (DVM, MSc, PhD, DES, Dipl ECVS, Dipl EVDC(eq), MRCVS) will be presenting at Toothfest 2023 as part of the greatest line up of equine dental knowledge we will have ever seen on Australian shores 🤯
👍Currently Clinical Director and Senior Surgeon at the Goulburn Valley Equine Hospital, a subsidiary of the Melbourne University in Australia, Denis started his career as an equine veterinarian in private practice in Ireland and the Netherlands immediately after graduation from the University of Ghent, Belgium in 2003.
👍With the desire to improve his skills, Denis went back to academia at the end of 2004 to become a resident in equine surgery at the University of Liege, Belgium. In 2006 he defended a master in veterinary science degree on the subject of “Osteochondrosis and its relationship with IGF-I in the Horse”.
👍In 2009 he obtained a specialist diploma (DES) in Large Animal Surgery from the University of Liege and in 2010 Denis successfully passed the exam of the European College of Veterinary Surgeons. Denis then defended his PhD in Liege about the clinical impact of developmental orthopaedic diseases in horses.
👍In 2022 he became Diplomate of the equine section of the European Veterinary Dental College. After spending some time in Sweden as Head of the Equine Surgery Department in Uppsala University, Denis and his wife Gaby, an ECEIM and ECVECC diplomate, moved back to Belgium and started a consultancy based equine medicine and surgery service.
👍In 2013, both took up a position of Associate Professor at the Equine Hospital of the Copenhagen University. In 2017 Denis ran his own private consultancy business, Equine-Specialists, performing peripatetic surgical and dentistry services around the globe. In February 2018, Denis became Head of the Camden Equine Centre where he remained for the next three years. After a short stay in Germany working for the Altano Group, Denis returned to Australia to take up a
Welcome Equine & Mixed Animal Vets , to Day 7 of 14 - 28 reasons why YOU can’t afford to miss
Toothfest - a once in 5 yrs conference on
How To and What’s New
In Equine Dentistry
- with some small animals too!
