October 2025 Lunch & Learn: Dentistry

Veterinary dentistry, oral medicine, and oral surgery are part of the practice of veterinary medicine and are regarded as such under state veterinary practice acts. Veterinary dentistry, oral medicine, and oral surgery include the cleaning, adjustment, filing, extraction, or repair of animals’ teeth and all other aspects of oral health care in animals. Veterinary dentistry is a function of veterinary practice because it requires diagnosis and treatment, and, to be fully effective, demands extensive knowledge of anatomy, anesthesiology, pharmacology, physiology, pathology, radiology, neurology, medicine, and surgery that is part of the graduate veterinarian’s training.

Registration Pricing: 

Member: $70
Nonmember: $90

*Registration will close at 7am on Weds. October 22, 2025. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: 

Lynn Happel, DVM

Dr. Lynn Happel graduated from Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2003. She then worked as an associate for small animal practices in Muskegon and Grand Rapids before opening a clinic of her own in Grand Rapids in 2011.

Dr. Happel completed specialized dentistry training with the American Veterinary Dental College (AVDC) and has been utilizing this training in practice for over a decade. She is one of the few dentistry experts in Michigan, volunteers for the Eastown Business Association Board and the Uptown Business Improvement District Board and served on the Board of Directors of the American Animal Hospital Association.

When she is not busy performing the work she loves, she spends quality time with her husband and two sons, riding horses or cuddling with her pets.