Tooth Done? Now What? The Art of a Smooth Recovery

It is easy to put on our blinkers and just focus on the tooth or the oral surgery involved, but what happens when you have done an amazing job in surgery?
The patient care does not, and should not end there. Recovery starts the moment you turn off the inhalant and start to bring your patient around to consciousness, right through until they have been signed off from their surgical procedures, which could be 3, 5, 10 days or more, depending on the treatment they required.
This session will guide us through how to ensure our patients make it through the initial recovery period safely, how we should be monitoring them, pain scoring, post op instructions for owners, completing immediate post op checks, and what to expect for different procedures.
We will also include examples of when interventions have been needed post operatively.
The recovery of a patient requires a collaborative approach between the surgeon, nursing team, client facing team and the client themselves.