Second-year dentistry students Jessa Drury, Lisa Bachiu and Susanne Skulski were sitting in their endodontics class when they came up with the idea of how they could connect their schooling at the College of Dentistry with veterinary medicine.
“Our professor was showing us a video of a root canal he was doing on a ferret, and we had a light bulb go off,” said Drury. “So, when we were in our dentistry table clinics class and needed to find a research project, we thought it would be cool to work with a veterinary dentist.”
The three students—all pet lovers— decided to search on the USask Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) website to see if they could find someone who could help. Their search led to Dr. Candace Lowe, a board-certified veterinary dentist and an assistant professor in the WCVM’s Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences.
“The students contacted me and asked what kind of project we could do,” said Lowe. “I was happy to help them out, and we tossed a few ideas back and forth until we decided on the raw meat study.”
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