Our patients are examined in this much detail. It's a delight to see our patients gum health improve and return to healthy through our restricted veterinary treatments.
- Do you see the calculus hiding between the tooth and the cheek?
- Do you see the feed hiding between teeth?
- How do you remove this effectively and safely?
- How does one clean below the gingiva (gum)?
- How do we prevent the feed going back in there after treatment?
Did you know that treatment is vitally important before the ligament around the tooth and the surrounding bone get infected?
Veterinary periodontal exam
Examining teeth in detail
Small canine teeth - don’t ignore them. They should never appear loose or have swollen gums.
We exhaust all other option before electing tooth extraction. However, we should never ignore pain and disease.
Radiographs were essential in successfully removing all diseased bits of this tooth, ensuring a clean alveolus that will heal quickly.
Regional nerve block inside the bony canal that carries the nerve and or intraligamentous block is essential. Placing a bit lof local around the tooth will not allow for a pain free elevation of the tooth.
And therefore will not allow complete removal.
Horses require proper pain relief, antibiotics, tetanus prevention and a clean environment for such procedures. Be it a small or big tooth.
Winter at Dental Vet!
🎼The weather outside is frightful but the barn is still delightful 🐎! The roads in Cust and parking are now clear, jug will be on, but bring an extra jacket! Look forward to a full clinic day tomorrow.
Interesting clinic cases on this freezing and wet day ☔️ ❄️ #Veterinary dentistry #discovery and treatment of dental diseases
What we do in a nutshell. A videoclip for the Ethics of Equine Wellbeing conference this weekend Living Anatomy of the Horse #dentalvet
Would like to hear your thoughts to learn where owners are at.
💡Would one expect to leave a tooth like this and why or
💡 Would you expect it needs extraction and why. Would the horse eat better (feed conversion and balance) with or without the tooth.
Any idea why a tooth becomes loose?
Fillings” 🦷 Did you know that we’re the only vet practice on the South Island and one of two NZ wide, that have had formal training in and have the equipment for ‘fillings’? We’re innovative, highly trained, have the best instruments and high standard of care. Did you know that ‘fillings’ and ‘rootcanals’ are not entirely accurate words for horses but since it describes filling a defect or a pulp horn in a horse tooth with human dental material, we sometimes use these terms to explain to owners what options we have.
“Fillings” 🦷 we’re innovative, highly trained, have the best instruments and high standard of care. (Check out curing light at 25sec. video).
Did you know that we’re the only vet practice on the South Island and one of two NZ wide, that have had formal training in and have the equipment for ‘fillings’?
Did you know that ‘fillings’ and ‘rootcanals’ are not entirely accurate words for horses but since it describes filling a defect or a pulp horn in a horse tooth with human dental material, we sometimes use these terms to explain to owners what options we have.
In some instances we can use these procedures to prevent acute infection and extraction of a tooth.
Here you see a restoration done on a fractured ‘tusk’ or canine. The horse is relaxed and pain free during the procedure.
Wonderful surprise delivery of Thank You chocolate next to a new stash of tooth paste and root canal cement… 😂 🦷 😷
Doesn’t need caption or does it 😎
**No parasites, for the people who wondered..
Patients at Dental Vet receive a thorough health check of the mouth. Why would your horse not receive the same standard of exam as you get at your person-dentist?
Trained in diagnosing and treating dental diseases, exclusive to advanced veterinary practitioners, we find it and repair it.
If your ‘dentistry’ is ‘trimming’ and balancing teeth, your horse is missing out on the important stuff.
If you think horses do not often suffer from undiagnosed dental pain, you’re missing important stuff too. Gum problems, decay, tooth ache- we see it daily. Backed by tons of scientific research that finds these diseases occur in high numbers of our horses domesticated and feral.
Detailed, veterinary grade dental exam for this lovely Icelandic horse today. Can you spot it?
We teach horses to pick up back legs and tap shoes on. We teach them to walk into horse floats and drive around NZ and YOU can teach them to have their teeth cleaned.
Do all horses need this? No. But 60-80% of our horses suffer from periodontal disease. Painful and infected gums- a process that drags on until the whole tooth is loose.
That is no fun. I am sure you have smelt the nasty disease in a person, dog cat or horse. Nasty bacteria and their products enter the animal’s blood stream and cause problems elsewhere. In people the relationship between poor gum health and heart problems and reproductive problems is clearly proven. We are getting there with research in horses.
Periodontal problems can be treated readily. But not by tooth rasping of course. The gums need veterinary intervention and some at home treatment to return back to health.
And when a tonne of research (all the way back to 1901) shows time and time again that 60-80% of horses have gum problems, I ask you: why were you not referred for treatment?
Your horse will say thank youhoooowhoooowhoo
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