Dental Vet

04/07/2025

The inside of this pulp canal should be filled with healthy blood vessels and nerves. Unfortunately this is not a healthy tooth and there is rotten feed material where the blood vessels and nerves should be. Here we are cleaning out all the rotten feed material and disinfecting the canal as part of his root canal treatment. Wonderful that we can save more teeth these days!

02/07/2025

I was having trouble reaching working length (getting down to the tip of the root of the tooth when doing root canal therapy) with the hand files so swapped to rotary (an electric version of the files used to clean the inside of the canal) and pulled this out! Any ideas what we are looking at here?

01/07/2025

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27/06/2025

Very exciting & rewarding rechecking the first case we ever treated with the flowable 'MTA' (root canal filling material) that we developed with 2 human endodontists. The first 2 x-rays are from August 2020 & you can see the very widened periodontal ligament space (black area around the roots circled in orange) & the significant schlerosis (inflamed bone, the white/ dense bone around the darker area- red arrows) indicating a painful tooth root abscess on the 207. At his endodontic treatment in October 2020 he had also developed a unilateral nasal discharge on the affected side- a secondary sinus infection from the abscessed tooth.

The tooth was treated endodontically (root canal therapy- 'RCT' was performed) & within a few days of treatment, the nasal discharge had resolved & hasn't returned in almost 5 years. You can also see on x-rays that the root is much more settled, with normal bone now filling the space where the infection was.

It is just so rewarding looking in this mouth and seeing a normal full arcade of functional, comfortable teeth, with no significant overgrowths & no periodontal disease. This would likely be a very different mouth by now if we had extracted the tooth rather than treated it endodontically as the opposite tooth would have overgrown and the teeth on either side of the extracted tooth tend to migrate together, causing gaps in other areas & secondary periodontal disease (all leading to more frequent dental visits being required as well).

Not every case is a good candidate for endodontics & not all cases are successful but with the right case & a dedicated owner, the long term impact on the horse can be huge. The costs are comparable to extraction & long term may even end up more cost effective as once we are comfortable that the infection is settled, they are just on the usual annual checkup rather than 6 monthly after extraction.

If you are wondering whether RCT may be an option for your horse (if an extraction has been recommended), talk to your dental provider about a referral & we are always happy to discuss options.

26/06/2025

🦷 New Service Alert! 🐴

We’re now offering 'Oral Examinations' at Dental Vet!

✅ Buying a new horse?
✅ Need a second opinion on your horse’s dental health?

Our sedated oral exams provide a thorough look inside your horse's mouth—something standard PPEs often can't fully cover.

💲 $100 + sedation
📌 Fee is deducted from your next dental appointment if treatment is needed!
🚫 Exam only – treatment not included

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25/06/2025

Any captions for this character? 😆😍

Such a sweet boy, wanting to be involved with whatever we were doing! So lovely to see our regular customers so calm and happy in the clinic! ❤ He had actually already had his turn but was more than happy to wonder back in and double check Tara's notes on his brother! 😆

24/06/2025

Luckily for this patient, the chip to the corner of the 403 incisor narrowly missed the vital structures of the tooth!

Cases like this one, which may appear to be ‘harmless chips,’ can actually lead to more serious issues if the damage extends into the pulp—where the sensitive tissues, such as blood vessels and nerves, are located. If the pulp is compromised, it can lead to pulp death and eventual infection, potentially resulting in the need to extract the tooth.

However, in some situations, we may be able to perform endodontic treatment to help prevent further disease and try to save the tooth.

Fortunately for this patient, we were able to carefully examine the affected tooth and determine that the damage does not extend into the pulp canal. We will however continue to monitor the tooth closely for any changes in the future.

23/06/2025

Cute pony patient to start our week on the right 'hoof' 🦷🐴

22/06/2025

A slightly different looking wolf tooth found in this patient's mouth. 🦷

20/06/2025

This lovely older boy will be feeling much better without this tooth in there! It had fractured off the back root of the tooth so the tooth was quite loose and you can see that the front root was not looking very healthy! The tooth and the retained root were both extracted and it will be much more comfortable without the rotten tooth wobbling around in there!

19/06/2025

What an incredible set of lectures put on by the (human!) Australian Society of Endodontology last night! I am always so humbled and grateful to have the privilege of being able to attend these lectures (without a human dental degree!).

We have so much to learn from our human dental colleagues and the lectures tonight were really clinically relevant to cases that we see. There is some amazing work being done in the field of fractured teeth healing, periodontal/ endodontic lesions, tips for entering calcified canals when doing root canal treatments and lectures from a maxillofacial surgeon on cyst removals.

Such a lovely group of dedicated clinicians giving up their time to help us all do better by our patients! ❤

19/06/2025

📣 Appointment Slot Available – Thursday, 26th June (Morning)

We’ve had a spot open up for a North of the River visit on Thursday, 26th June (morning) – servicing areas including Swan Valley, Herne Hill, Gnangara, Wanneroo, and surrounds.

✅ Suitable for 1–3 horses
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