EqD School Application
A professional Equine Dentistry Educational Facility’ is considered a recognized as organized education and/or training in a formal setting, structured with learning objectives focusing on proficiency-based skills, designed to supply the demand for routine dental maintenance throughout the horse industry.
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The Wayne Needham’s Equine Dental School
21000 Interstate 27
Canyon, Tx 79015 USA
Mobile (806) 681-1820
Email: wayneedham@gmail.com
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Additional Equine Dental Schools:
Australia
College of Equine Dentistry
2432 Goolhi Rd.
Gunnedah NSW 2380
Office Phone: 02 6743 7123
International: 001161 267 437 123
Mobile: 0428 42 5378
Email: equident@ozemail.com.au
Email: ianwharton2@gmail.com
www.equinedentistry.co.au
New Zealand
New Zealand Equine Dentistry School Ltd
77 Barnaby Rd,
Tuakau, Waikato 2121
Phone: 64 9 2369398
Fax: 64 9 2369395
Mobile: 64 27 2559085
Email: education@equinedentistryschool.ac.nz
United States
Academy of Equine Dentistry
P.O Box 999
Glenns Ferry, ID 83623 USA
Phone: 1.208.366.2315
Fax: 1.208.366.2340
www.equinedentalacademy.com
Email: academy@equinedentalacademy.com
American School of Equine Dentistry
36691 Sawmill Lane
Purcellville, VA 20132 USA
Phone: 1.540.668.6505
www.amscheqdentistry.com
Email: rqhydedvm@xecu.net
Equine Gnathological Training Institute Inc.
2050 East Medicine Wheel Lane
King Hill, Idaho 83633 USA
Email: dalejeffrey@equinedentistry.com
www.equinedentistry.net
Call Bert: 1.405.834.4045
Call Dale: 1.208.869.1002
Midwest Equine Dental Academy
P.O. Box 3
Winn, Michigan 48896 USA
Phone: 1.989.772.2999
www.midwestequinedental.com
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Pre-Approved Educational Facility Requirements:
The professional Equine Dentistry Educational Facility’s course must:
- Be detailed and well organized, with a structured building block educational focus.
- Must include a complete history of the industry with specific targeted learning objectives.
- Must provide a comprehensive list of EqD terminology, definitions and their uses.
- Must include a complete understanding of the importance of individual EqD history inquiry and record-keeping.
- Must include a comprehensive understanding of the importance of accurate aging and the associated benefits and consequences thereof.
- Must include a complete understanding of dental prophylaxis, tooth structure and growth patterns, principles of mastication.
- Must include a full-body anatomy course complete with a full understanding of the inter-related structures and soft tissue attachments and the dental significance with both their positive and negative influences throughout.
- Must include a detailed list of the most common and research-based theories intended to reinstate the fundamental geometric and bio-mechanical principals with a detailed understanding of their origin and approach to balance.
- Must include a step-by-step approach to regularly maintaining a functional mouth and the significance to the Equidae’s mastication, digestion, overall health and function (including excursion in occlusion, incisors proper angle and proper alignment, molars proper angle and alignment and synergistic-relationship between the incisor and molar arcades, protuberances and how to address each abnormality specifically).
- Must include a detailed look at common abnormalities and their domesticated influences of cause.
- Must include a wet lab complete with live animal demonstrations and practical experience.
- Demonstration of the full line of instrumentation and current technology available on the market with a full explanation of their uses, benefits and consequences of proper and improper use and handling.
- Must provide every student with both a knowledge-based and proficiency-based form of testing at every stage of training.
- Must provide a detailed schedule of dates, times and confirmed attendance records.