Adelaide Equine Veterinary Dentistry

16/09/2024

It’s been a busy winter here at AEVD, helped massively by the dry weather which has facilitated a lot of dental checks 🐴🦷🔍😀

Here’s just a snippet of some of the interesting cases I’ve seen and treated -

🦷 Advanced periodontal disease of 309/409 necessitating a bilateral extraction
🦷 EOTRH
🦷 Tongue laceration
🦷 Grass seed impaction of the sublingual salivary gland papilla
🦷 Incisor wear due to wind sucking/cribbing
🦷 Cushing’s (PPID) lower lip ulcers
🦷 Full set of upper incisor extractions due to malformation/oxalate ingestion (2 photos)
🦷 Lower wolf tooth
🦷 Peripheral cemental caries

Just a reminder that there are only a few spaces left between now and Xmas so get in touch ASAP if you need horses seen to in the next few months. January is already fully booked, but spaces available February 2025 onwards 🗓️👌😁

30/05/2024

🛬 Hi Everyone! Just a quick update on things now that I’m back from holidays ….

With the recent shortages in veterinary services, I have decided to open my books (for the first time in 2 years!) and allow some new clients on to my dentistry service roster. Service area is strictly limited to the Adelaide Hills (Willunga to Woodside), Strathalbyn and parts of the Fleurieu.

Additionally, preferential access will be given to dentistry clients of my lovely friend and colleague Dr Rebecca Dunn of Windrush Vets who is taking extended maternity leave.

Please contact me via text message on 0459 555 153 (this just makes it easier for me to manage and co-ordinate if communication is all in one place!) to make a booking. Don’t forget to include your location, number of horses, preferred day/time and any other relevant dental history when enquiring and I’ll do my best to accomodate some new faces 😁🐴🦷

02/05/2024

Just a quick message to let everyone know I’ll be away on holidays from :

Friday 3/5/24 to Tuesday 28/5/24 (3.5 weeks)

I will reply to messages and texts on my return as I can’t guarantee I’ll have consistent mobile signal while I’m away … see you all in a few weeks time 😎👋✈️

18/03/2024

Always an honour and a pleasure to be involved in these courses, educating and inspiring the next generation of equine dental vets 👩‍🏫🤓🦷🐎

⚡️Flashback to last week when we were just wrapping up from another Level 1 Essentials of Equine Dentistry where we seen 25 equine veterinarians have completed our training.

🚀They came from as far afield as New Zealand and Malaysia.

🦹‍♂️6 Days of complete immersion in equine dentistry to bring them up to the level of being able to go out and perform an oral exam and routine odontoplasty. 🐴🦷❤️

🤩Massive thanks to all the registrants who played full out over the 6 big days, along with the 10 strong EVDS Redshirt brigade who overcame many hurdles behind the scenes to deliver a brilliant workshop , and the 10 awesome tutors who encouraged and taught the registrants as much as possible. 🙏

✅Next one will be May 2025

16/02/2024

📣 Just a quick shout out for a new vet starting up in the southern suburbs of Adelaide & Hills - check out Dr Lisa Tee’s FB page and give her a like & follow 👍

I met Lisa a few years ago when she was a student on one of the EVDS dental courses I was tutoring on and was super impressed with her down to earth nature and enthusiasm for all things veterinary.

She will be doing equine and companion livestock work so she’s perfectly suited to our neck of the woods down here.

Check it out and support - we need a great vet like this in our area 💗🐂🫏🐐🐎

06/10/2023

Thanks for having me back again Matt & Lauren!! Lovely to catch up in the sunshine and also meet some of your fab agisters this trip 🦷🪥🐴😁

DENTAL DAY @ OOH 🙌

Always a treat to catch up with Simone!! Thank you so much for taking excellent care of our ponies teeth.

06/08/2023

🦷🐴👩‍🏫 Toothfest 2023 🤓🪥📚

Last week vets from all over the world (including myself!) converged on Coffs Harbour to learn from a brilliant group of international equine dentistry specialists. This conference happens once every 5 years and is a truly epic event 🙌

The latest research and techniques were presented plus panel discussions really sparked great debate on current topics in equine dentistry.

It was also great to see so many South Australian vets in attendance, just highlighting how we are collectively progressing veterinary dental care in our awesome state 🩵🦷👍

23/09/2022

Norwegian Fjord chats on cold wet Friday afternoons are just the best 🥰🥰🥰

25/08/2022

Persistence - Patience - Perseverance was todays mantra for a slightly stressful 104 (canine) extraction due to EOTRH.

The fragility of this tooth became obvious very early on when the crown broke off…

shortly followed by the mid segment of the tooth…

and finally by the root 😩😩😩

EOTRH is a degenerative condition that causes resorption of the tooth (think Swiss cheese 🧀 in tooth form) which makes them highly unstable and prone to fracturing.

The root also had a bulbous shape (another part of the EOTRH process called hypercementosis) to it which necessitated widening of the alveolar bone socket to facilitate its “square peg out of a round hole” extraction. I was one very happy veterinarian to see that little troublemaker piece out of there!! 😈

And did I mention that it also rained 3 times during this extraction … 🫤🌧🤷‍♀️

Doc was an absolute superstar and was seen happily munching away on grass 2hrs afterwards. The 204 also needs extraction but we will tackle that one another day … after a hot shower and a glass of wine 🚿🍷😁

01/08/2022

Love this awesome crew of horses and so honoured to be involved in their continued care 💕👮‍♀️🐴🦷🥳

15/07/2022

Caesar enjoying his best this morning - such a poser with the incredible background behind him and loves giving cuddles … 100% recommend 💞🤗

05/07/2022

Loving these crisp winter mornings up in the Adelaide Hills 😀❄️💕

11/06/2022

I had a great week away tutoring at EVDS in Grafton last week. Got to catch up with some fabulous colleagues who also share my passion for everything enamel 🦷💙

An awesome group of registrants attended who were super keen to learn more and develop skills in this field - this is the second full course (28 people) that’s run this year which confirms this area of veterinary medicine is on the rise 🙌🙌🙌

25/05/2022

Just a heads up about 2022 bookings 🗓

I’m now fully booked until Friday 21st October with the remainder of 2022 almost 75% booked up.

If your horse’s teeth need to see me this year please get in touch soon as once I’m booked up there’s no other spaces to squeeze horses in!!

And as always, thank-you so❣️so❣️so❣️much for supporting my business and my enthusiasm of all things enamel 🦷🦷🦷😁

17/05/2022

🦷🪥 Donkey Dental Day 😃🤍

Fabulous day out with Peter and Barb Young and their 4 rescue donkeys. Muriel, Albert, Forrest and Gordon all had their teeth checked plus vaccinations and worming done.

Gordon was showing off his confident crush loading skills having been in the crush a few times already with some interesting dental pathology that I’ve been managing for the past 12 months (which is looking amazing today!! 🙌).

So great to see the care and attention this beautiful herd receive from their devoted owners …. And I couldn’t help but fall in love with Muriel’s gorgeous big ears 💕💕💕

13/05/2022

Thanks Clare and Riverton for another interesting regional dentistry trip 🙌🐴🦷🚙

25 horses were seen over 3 days and most mouths were in great shape having received semi-regular dental care in the past …. But there were a few interesting ones that popped up including a 29yo mare with 4 loose teeth, a 12yo brood mare with an impressive rostral hook and a 16yo mare with a palatal overgrowth on a supernumerary molar (111a)!

Great to also catch up with a few relocated clients as well as meeting lots of new faces 😁

Next trip planned for Wed 10/11 & Thurs 11/11 - get in touch if you’d like to be added to this trip as spots are already booking up 🗓

10/05/2022

🗓🦷❄️Winter Bookings are almost FULL!!

I have a few scattered spaces left for appointments in June, July & August but the bulk of these 3 months are now completely booked 😱

I have been trying desperately to keep up with demand and have done over 350 routine dentals (in addition to extractions, X-rays, periodontal treatments etc…!!!) since January but I think it’s time to now say that we all need to start planing a few months ahead for appointments. Gone are the days of messaging and hoping for a booking in the next week or two!

Please 🙏 Please 🙏 Please 🙏 THINK AHEAD!!

I’m now taking bookings for September onwards and to be completely honest I’m already 35% booked from September to December. If your horses are due in the second half of the year please get in touch sooner rather than later and book in. Once the spaces are gone I can’t magic up any more time to fit extra horses in and I don’t want anyone to miss out if I can avoid it 🤞

22/04/2022

🐴👅🐛 Bot fly season is upon us again !!

I was called to see a miserable 13yo palomino mare this week who’d been uncomfortable on the bit and salivating for the past 2 weeks.

Her tongue was swollen (especially on the right side) and thick cording streaks could be felt along the length of her tongue. There was also an area of ulceration in the right cheek from self trauma as she’d been altering her chewing action to minimise pressure on the tongue.

Needless to say she was very very unhappy with me handling her tongue despite being sedated for examination.

It’s always worth getting a full oral examination for any horse showing discomfort in the mouth … you never know what you’re going to find!!

Bot fly management tips:

🪰 Boticide de-wormer in the winter months to kill the adults in the stomach (remember wormers only work on the adult stage!)
🪰 Bot Knives/Shedding blocks to reduce the egg load on legs/manes etc
🪰 Fly spray to keep the pesky flies away