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The life of a veterinary dental nurse

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Liz Jefferson is a patient at Renew Dental in Walsall in the West Midlands and is one of nine veterinary nurses to hold a qualification in dentistry. Here, she shares her dental nursing experience in the animal kingdom with her dentist Dr Indy Johal

Liz Jefferson RVN ISFM (Feline Nursing) Ncert (Dentistry) is branch head nurse at Blacks Vets in Lye, Stourbridge in the West Midlands. She studied for her veterinary nursing qualification at Rodbaston College in Staffordshire, West Midlands, and then at Improve International in Swindon for her Ncert in Dentistry and online for her ISFM Certificate in Feline Nursing.

She has been a veterinary nurse for 24 years. In fact, on leaving school in 1996, she was offered a job at Blacks Vets and has been there ever since. Liz happens to be one of my patients at my practice, Renew Dental in Walsall in the West Midlands, and kindly took time out to talk about her role and looking after the teeth and gums of animals...

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