🐕🦺🦷Come with us to see behind the scenes when performing dental work!
Our top points of care for this procedure
🦷Dental charting is an essential tool that helps us track the health of your pet’s teeth. It allows us to monitor tartar buildup, gingivitis, and gum recession, while also identifying abnormal pockets, tooth mobility, and resorptive lesions.
🦷🩻Dental radiographs (X-rays) are critical for getting a complete picture of your pet’s dental health. They help us see what’s happening beneath the gum line, allowing us to detect issues like tooth resorption, periodontal disease, root fractures, and even missing teeth—problems that aren’t visible during a regular exam. Radiographs also help us plan for any necessary extractions, ensuring we use the best approach.
🦷🪥Home dental care plays a crucial role in maintaining your pet’s oral health. Brushing your pet’s teeth daily or every other day is one of the most effective ways to reduce harmful bacteria and prevent dental disease. We also recommend using dental products approved by the Veterinary Oral Health Council (VOHC), which have been scientifically tested for effectiveness.
If you’d like more details on the best products for your pet or how to take care of your pets teeth, feel free to ask one of our team members or call us on 02380620607, or alternatively message us on PetsApp 💙
🌟 Remember Jethro? Look at Him Now! 🌟
In our recent post, we shared Jethro’s incredible journey from a shy boy who hid under chairs, very worried to be at the vets to a confident, cooperative star of our Confidence Clinics. Well, here’s an exciting update on how far he’s come! 🐾.
🎥 In this video, you’ll see how Jethro has mastered different commands for each part of his health check. Words are incredibly important to Jethro— with training he understands individual words well and uses them to stay focused during our sessions. Commands like “heart” for the stethoscope and using a chin rest for exams help him know exactly what’s happening, making the experience calm and stress-free.
Thanks to his dedicated owners practicing at home and the continuity of the confidence clinic sessions with our nurse Izzy, Jethro has built trust, confidence, and a positive association with the vets. He now comes in for regular sessions to keep up this progress, ensuring future visits are just as smooth and positive.
Jethro’s transformation shows how powerful cooperative care and patience can be. Having built a strong positive association with the clinic sets him up for stress-free visits in the future.
Keep up the amazing work, Jethro—you’ve come so far! 🌟🐕
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Did you know that high blood pressure is a common health issue for cats, especially as they age? Regular blood pressure checks can help detect early signs of conditions like kidney disease, hyperthyroidism, or heart disease. Our ISFM-accredited veterinary nurse Jenny is here to provide gentle, stress-free blood pressure checks via a “Silver Whiskers Clinic” for your feline friends over the age of 7. It’s a simple, non-invasive test that can make a big difference in your cat’s overall health. Schedule a check-up today via petsapp or call us on 02380620607 to keep your cat’s heart and kidneys in top shape! 🐾💖 #CatHealth #BloodPressureCheck #ISFMAccredited #FelineCare #hypertension #ISFMpractice
#AntibioticAmnesty
What to do if you have leftover or unused antibiotics: -
- Return them to your vet practice for safe disposal
- Inappropriate disposal of unused antibiotics could contribute to antimicrobialresistance and pollute the environment through waterways, affecting our wildlife
- Don’t ever give your pet, or any pet for which they haven’t been prescribed, left-over or out of date antibiotics. Using antibiotics when not needed could risk side effects, delay an accurate diagnosis for your pet, mean that your pets condition may not be treatable, and contributes to antimicrobial resistance.
Our practice is taking part in the antibiotic amnesty this November. Clients can return any unused or out of date antibiotics to us for safe disposal.
#AntibioticAmnesty #onehealth
This month we support the antibiotic amnesty. The aim is to encourage clients to return any unused or out of date antibiotics. This will allow correct and safe disposal of the antibiotic medications, which will avoid contamination of the environment and help prevent antimicrobial resistance due to inappropriate disposal.
During November 2024 a National Antibiotic Amnesty is being held by vets, doctors and pharmacists.
Our practice is taking part in the antibiotic amnesty and we are
encouraging clients to return any unused or out of date antibiotics to us for safe disposal.
#AntibioticAmnesty #onehealth
✅ Return any unused or out of date antibiotics to us for safe disposal
❌ We do not accept human medicine and this should be returned to a pharmacy for safe disposal
🐾 Jethro's Confidence Journey at the Clinic 🐾
Since April, Jethro has been attending our confidence clinics, and his transformation has been nothing short of amazing! 🐶
When Jethro first joined us, he was very shy, preferring to stay under the reception seat, hesitant to be approached by vet staff. Let alone the stress that was experienced for any examinations that needed to be carried out when at the vets too. But with time, patience, and a few fun sessions together, Jethro slowly started to open up and reveal his brilliant personality. 🎉 Now, he’s all about the squeaky toys and loves sniffing out hidden treats when he comes to see us!
To help Jethro overcome his nerves at the vets, we’ve been focusing on cooperative care techniques. These techniques allow him to understand and participate in the process, reducing his anxiety. For instance, we've taught him to associate the stethoscope with the command ‘heart’ and to use a chin rest during health checks to keep him focused and calm. 🩺✨
A huge shoutout to Jethro’s amazing owners for their dedication and hard work in practicing these techniques at home. 🙌 Their commitment has been key to his progress.
Jethro continues his monthly sessions with us to maintain his positive association, and we couldn’t be prouder of how far he’s come. Keep up the great work, Jethro! 💙🐾🩺
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When the Friday afternoon naps hit 😴💤
We love little Rory’s personality 💓 #riversidevets #Hampshire #veterinarysurgery #veterinarynurse #veterinarypractice #FeelGoodFriday
The new reception area is taking shape! 👷🔨
We had added fun with Southern electric recently digging up the forecourt to renew our power line. We were thankful that the power failure decided to happen during this refurbishment and not when decorating had been completed. ⚡️
We hope to welcome clients back through the front door next week. 🤞🏽
We have a busy weekend of putting everything back together. 🧩
Good afternoon!
Following our current reception refurbishments we ask you to follow the signs round to the rear end our building to the allocated seating area for your pets appointments. 🐶🐱🐰🐹🐭🐴
We will greet you at this area where we can direct you inside for your appointment or collection of medications. 💊 🚶♂️➡️🚶♀️➡️
Due to the refurbishments we have had to make restrictions on routine consultations due to limited space within the practice.
We would advise on rainy days to wait in the car once you have checked in with our team. 🚗📞
We thank you for your patience and understanding whilst the building works take place over the next few weeks 👷🏼♂️🧱💥❗️
Meet this beautiful girl, Lilibet 🩵
Since March, Lilibet has been attending confidence clinics with our Nurse Izzy to conquer her vet visit fears. At first, Lilibet was hesitant to even walk into the consult room and got anxious waiting in reception but now she eagerly pulls her owners in!
One of her biggest challenges has been the stethoscope. It made her so anxious that vet staff couldn't get an accurate listen. Thanks to the dedication of her owners, practicing with desensitising techniques at home and Izzy's gentle guidance, we're working on putting the stethoscope on a cue, so Lilibet knows what to expect. This will help ease her worries and make vet visits much more pleasant.
We are also spending time on introducing new members of the team for Lilibet to get used too to help with future visits and nail clipping desensitisation 😊
We are so proud of Lilibet's progress.
Here's to many more confident vet visits ahead! 🐶❤️ 🐾🩺
*Caution, Images of endoscope extraction*
In this video from today our team were pleased to remove a foreign body directly from the stomach using an endoscope!
Buddy is a known sock thief but after vomiting a sock up on Thursday and acting quiet and not himself, he was brought in this morning for xrays which showed gas pockets and possibly something in the stomach. An endoscopy was performed and a sock was retrieved whole from the stomach which as you can tell from the video our team were most pleased!
We are glad no surgery was required and Buddy had a speedy recovery later this afternoon!
*permission to post from owners*
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