Equine Dental Clinic Ltd

22/01/2025

Thinking today of anyone working in this chilly weather! Here are 2 of our team of dental vets treating all the horses on a large yard in Melton Mowbray - it looks well, a bit fresh is what we would say in the South.. I expect they have a different choice of words! 🙏😬🥶☁️🐎🦷

20/01/2025

Routine dentistry HQ! Lovely to see a routine dental check with teeth in excellent condition - regular dental appointments are so important for the long term health and performance ability of your horse 🐴 🏇🦷🫏

19/01/2025

First test with our new WDE Pro wireless oroscope camera developed over the last 4 years through a partnership with a medical imaging company - we like it! Specialist Nicole du Toit is here using it for the first time, great to use it in our clinic in a clinical setting but it’s so portable and easy to use it would also be great out on the road in stables etc - all our dental vets that visit stables and yards will have one of these (they already each have a wired one
each to laptops but these will make it easier to set up and use and great for clients to see) 🦷🐴

The wireless functionality means it can connect to any phone or tablet, iOS or Android, with no need for WiFi or phone signal (the device sets up its own WiFi network) - more test videos and images to come - for those of you going to the NCED Conference next week we will see you there 🙏🦷🐴🍻

18/01/2025

Unboxing our new wireless WDE Pro oroscope camera - lots of you dental professionals have been asking when these will be available for shipping and whereas we don’t have a definitive date it will be very soon!

18/01/2025

Thanks Alex Munn Eventing for sharing this! Hope Basil is happy with his newly restored teeth!

We have been restoring teeth like this for around 17 years now and have published the only long term study showing their effectiveness - filling teeth in horses when done properly and at the right time can prevent future fracture, root disease and of potentially years of low grade pain as the decay rots the tooth from the inside out

16/01/2025

Our highly recommended CPD/CE courses for this year are available to book online - Key Skills 1 is arguably the most important of all! Don’t think it’s ’basic’ - it’s not! You will learn 👨‍🏫practical everyday skills
🧐examination
🕵️‍♂️pathology identifcation
💉sedation techniques
🦷wolf tooth extraction
⚖️occlusal equilibration
😬incisor adjustments and balancing, and much more…

All in a friendly relaxed professional setting with novel practical sessions to set you on your way or bring you up to date to perform the highest quality maintenance dentistry every day - confidence in these techniques is the key to all dentistry!

For more information and to book visit our website www.equinedentalclinic.co.uk/cpd or feel free to send us a message for a chat about any of our courses 😊

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13/01/2025

‘The cavities were too big to fill’

‘It’s better to just extract them’

‘Fillings don’t last in horses’

‘The filling material won’t bond properly’

These are all comments we have heard about fillings in horses, and more besides - the truth is that when done properly fillings will arrest decay, restore the tooth back to full function and give the tooth many more years of service. This pony was referred to us 7 years ago for a fractured 210 cheek tooth (from infundibular caries - large deep decaying cavities) and at the same time as extracting the fractured one we filled two other teeth that looked like they were going the same way - now, 7 years on they are fully functional healthy teeth and the fillings pretty much look like they went in yesterday - fillings in horses must be done properly with careful cavity preparation (just the same as at the human dentist), and if they are they will last the full life of the tooth and keep the mouth functioning as well as ever 🙂

10/01/2025

Thank VT Vets for sending this to us!

07/01/2025

Shame someone chose to give us a negative review based on this. If anyone feels like giving us a Facebook review based on the service we have provided / provide then we would be super grateful 🙏 (we are not quite sure how to leave a review if you feel so inclined - there must be a button somewhere!)

07/01/2025

Some of you have messaged asking what happened to the case we posted for our New Year message - so here’s a quick summary:

The case was presented by referral for nasal discharge, with a suspected orosinus fistula of up to 3 yrs duration - the fistula was very narrow but had allowed food to enter the nasal passages right at the nasomaxillary aperture with some contamination of the rostral maxillary sinus - an unusual presentation - our treatment steps:

- CT scan to plan treatment
- Transnasal endoscopy to identify the food and fistula location
- Transendoscopic lavage / biopsy forceps removal of the food and inspissated solid pus
- Conchofrontal sinoscopy, maxillary septal bulla fenestration, lavage all sinus compartments
- Debridement orally of fistula using endodontic files and curettes
- Retention grooves applied to 108 and 110 (distal, medial), surfaces dried, bonded and prosthetic bridge applied across inderdental space
- Closed mouth endoscopy / reduction 408,9 to ensure reduced occlusion against bridge
- Sinus lavage 3 days, close surgical site.

Technically this is an oronasal fistula as the communication was slightly rostral to the nasomaxillary aperture (where the sinus drains into the nasal passages), although the sinus had become contaminated and drainage limited. Oronasal fistulae are always slower to close and more challenging to resolve long term so it may be that a fistula implant will be required for this case long term.

Thanks for asking, and thanks very much to the referring vets for sending this interesting case - hope that explains it and let’s hope no further treatment required (bridge prosthesis will be removed in 3 months).

06/01/2025

Well, having done around 4,500 cheek tooth extractions since starting EDC cases still come along that demonstrate how challenging extractions can be and how you can never say you’ve seen it all - this 20yo horse was referred for extraction of the 408 cheek tooth to our referral clinic in Duisburg, Germany (most of the crown was fractured and gone, and there were open pulp canals 2,4 so most of the tooth was dead) - and a complication occurred that was particularly unusual and frustrating - dental professionals out there may be able to work out what has happened…😳 (the tooth root fragment is not at all visible from the oral cavity with the oroscope - there is a bony bridge between the two tooth roots)

The next X-Ray shows the root fragment extracted, so we can happily report that we did successfully remove it - making the most of the range of equipment available in the clinic here in Germany - suction unit, patient side digital radiography, transbuccal surgical equipment, HD oroscope, endodontic equipment all being helpful in completing the procedure without having to resort to another treatment on another day or general anaesthesia - but it did make the last case of the day a bit of a challenge!

[Edit - as an update after some comments to me - this was not an ‘ordinary’ root fragment extraction - it’s common to have roots fracture during extraction the difference in this case was that after mobilising the root fragment it became displaced ventrally, into the mandibular body and moved backwards and became lodged under the furcation of the dental socket i.e. under the bony alveolus - making it hidden from the oral aspect as it was now stuck under the alveolar bone]

The important take home message is that you can never underestimate the potential for complication when performing cheek tooth extractions - you never know when complications will occur but when they do these are definitely cases for properly designed, well-equipped clinics - and of course, .

06/01/2025

EOTRH again (equine odontoclastic tooth resorption and hypercementosis) - this time the hypercementosis predominate type - there has been some suspicion and opinion that these are not so painful but you can see the red lesions on the gum that exude pus on pressure - certainly painful in this case so we progressed to extraction of all 12 teeth

02/01/2025

Happy 2025 to all our wonderful clients and followers!

Back to work today and straight back to referrals and routines - today we saw multiple cases in our purpose built clinic including two sinusitis cases, some deep diastemata, a long-standing oro-sinus fistula (hole from the mouth to the sinus, referred to us folllowing extraction elsewhere), an incisor referral for suspected EOTRH, a dental socket check post extraction before Christmas and multiple routine dentals performed by our amazing dental vets out on the road.

We are looking forward to another year of treating and helping your horses, helping and educating other vets, dental technicians and owners and continuing our drive to advance the science and standard of care for clinical equine dentistry worldwide.

What do we have planned for 2025? We are really excited - if everything works to plan we should have a new dental vet (more details to follow), a new website, an EDC equine dentistry app (making it easier to contact us, receive help and advice, refer cases more easily and learn about equine dentistry), more educational courses for vets, EDTs and owners, including client evenings and seminar days and an expansion of our routine services.

Also and very importantly we will be remaining an independent veterinary practice - one of the few left where we are able to manage our own business, operate it to our own high standards and beliefs and not those prescribed to us by corporate mega-practices owned by finance directors and not vets!

We genuinely wish you all a very Happy New Year!!

(Image is of the referral today for an oro-sinus fistula - food is tracking up a hole in a dental socket and into the sinus compartments)

23/12/2024

Why do we prefer to see referral cases in a clinic and ? We are quite capable of performing advanced referral cases in a stable but there are many reasons why it’s not the best idea - and why we invested heavily in designing and building our specialist dental referral clinic - it’s about aiming to provide the highest standards of clinical care

As specialists in equine dentistry we can work anywhere, our equipment is almost all battery powered, and smaller and more portable than ever - and we have o...

12/12/2024

Going to the ? Come and listen to one of our specialists Chris who will be speaking on Saturday in the live zone!

?? What question do you think you would like Chris to answer on the day? Add your questions in the comments below!

07/12/2024

Work Christmas party! Brunch then ABBA! 🕺 💃

07/12/2024

This is not specifically a dental post but an amazing achievement by those involved at Edinburgh University - could potentially save so many horses from this devastating disease - well done to the research team at Edinburgh!

“After years of feeling deflated by the lack of progress, it's wonderful to see this significant breakthrough."

Researchers have identified the probable cause of equine grass sickness as a neurotoxin. The breakthrough has the potential to lead to novel treatments and improved diagnostics for this devastating disease.

Read on - https://bit.ly/4f5McNQ

16/11/2024

Today is our clinic Open Day 😄🏥🐎🏇🐴🦷

Come and take a look around, watch an oral camera and corrective dental treatment demonstration, take the quiz to win a lovely EDC drinks bottle or mug, get a 10% routine dental discount voucher (conditions apply), meet Russell 🐶, see the CT scanner in action (demonstration) and find out why we’re the world’s leading equine dentistry practice 🙏

If you’d like to come along, we’d love to see you and will be open to all TODAY from 10am to 3pm 🐴🦷