Spring 2027

Veterinary Dentistry Elective

Introduction to veterinary dentistry principles and practice, covering anesthesia, extractions, oral pathology, periodontal disease, trauma, and feline-specific conditions.

offering recorded1 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Christopher Snyder

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=49 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=48 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe indications and techniques for the safe administration of regional oral anesthesia

  • Safely perform single and multi-rooted dental extractions with surgical flaps and tension free closure

  • Compare and contrast various oral pathologic conditions and describe various treatment options associated with each

  • Recognize clinical signs and symptoms associated with periodontal and/or endodontic disease and list appropriate treatment options

  • Describe various oral trauma symptoms, imaging modalities and treatment options

  • List and describe conditions unique to feline oral disease and their treatment

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

Course map

Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with third year standing

  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with third year standing
SURGSCI 677

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  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with third year standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=49 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=48 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CHRISTOPHER SNYDER is recorded teaching in Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=49 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=48 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

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Topics

  • Veterinary dentistry principles and practice
  • Regional oral anesthesia
  • Dental extractions and surgical flaps
  • Oral pathologic conditions
  • Periodontal and endodontic disease
  • Oral trauma and imaging
  • Feline oral disease

Skills

  • Safe administration of regional oral anesthesia
  • Performing dental extractions with surgical flaps and tension-free closure
  • Comparing oral pathologic conditions and describing treatment options
  • Recognizing clinical signs of periodontal and endodontic disease
  • Describing oral trauma symptoms, imaging modalities, and treatment options
  • Identifying and treating conditions unique to feline oral disease

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
SURGSCI 677 · Spring 2027

Veterinary Dentistry Elective

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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