Dental Vet; Equine vet practice for dental health and surgery

25/02/2025

Keenly awaiting his turn in the dental chair. 🐴🏇🦷🫶 This handsome boy is missing a tooth (a molar that never developed) and I was so pleased to see his mouth remains well balanced and functional. When he came to is a few years ago, he had teeth 3 cm too high (elongated) and he was unable to move normally.

18/02/2025

'Fillings' or Infundibular Restorations. Only available via Dental Vet and Vets on Riverbank.
We take a considered approach to this procedure. For some patients it offers a viable alternative to large cheek tooth extraction.

03/02/2025

Don’t go into a spin! Listen to this down to earth reliable explanation about strangles.

You can be assured that we have STANDARD PRACTICE of excellent hygiene measures which includes disinfection of stocks and instruments and changes of aprons and sleeves between horses, use of gloves etc. NOT JUST NOW: always. Being a vet practice, we have a breadth of knowledge in what disinfectants and detergents are suitable for what bugs and how to use them for dentistry.

Current information is that there are two confirmed strangles locations in North Canterbury and two further south.

Hygiene is very important. And that includes people moving between horses.

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23/01/2025

Stunning day ☀️🐴

21/01/2025

The start of a routine dental exam.
And to answer the question yes we do prescribe tooth paste to some horses!

17/01/2025

Happy New Year! Charged up our batteries for with a couple of weeks of referrals, extractions, restoratives and endodontics (fillings) behind and ahead of us.

We will of course continue to see you all for routine dental care too. We have diagnostics and elegant treatments on offer during ‘routine’ visits that advance your horses dental health greatly and that are not offered anywhere else in NZ.

14/01/2025

Fat horses…have dental issues too. A case of a long standing fractured cheek tooth, an extremely elongated opposing tooth and an extra tooth as the very nasty problem cherry on top.

Plan consists of
- veterinary diagnostics
- decide how to approach the fragmented upper molar
- odontoplasty supernumerary cheek tooth. I.e. shape the extra tooth (safely) to stop it from cutting into soft tissues.
- treat periodontal disease. I.e. feed collecting, plaque, gum disease around the extra tooth.
- that extra tooth may require extraction
- safely reduce elongated (tall) tooth.

- these steps are restricted to vets and only reliably offered by vets with advanced veterinary dental training and advanced equipment.

We have got you covered. Marieke can provide knowledge, diagnostics, equipment and techniques you cannot find anywhere else. Rachael is a qualified veterinary technician, excellent horse handler and chocolate connoisseur (important).

Excuse the poor English in video. Concentrating and talking…

16/12/2024

Did you know that antibiotics are almost never effective in treating dental diseases? Gum disease, inflamed pulp, ‘tooth root’ abscesses require advanced veterinary local surgical treatment. Usually by removing the affected tissue and preventing re-infection. The affected tissue to be ‘removed’ may be pulp, gum and it’s surrounding ligaments, tooth and or bone.

The beauty is that we can do these things nowadays minimally invasively, which means with great care, no pain and minimal time out of work to the horse.

Gone are the days of massive bone trauma and persistent trouble after tooth removal. In many cases we can now (as the only vet practice on the South Island) do pulp therapy (fillings) or remove teeth without damage to the rest of the face or sinus.

My long term passion is to raise awareness among horse owners and all dental providers and to train vets to a high standard of dental care.

26/11/2024

Mobile X-rays and cat scans

16/11/2024

He dared not look at the scales, showing increased weight 16 days after tooth extraction. He clearly loves eating pain free more than ever! Well, we love this tummy. Stitches out, off you go, see you in six months ❤️

13/11/2024

This….

13/11/2024

All soft tissue structures are examined in detail. Horses get very few chances a year to show what they are hiding in there. Better make it count 🤓
Diagnostics- the main reason your horse needs a dental 💙🪥🦷

11/11/2024

Our annual close down period is 13th December - 13th January 🎄🎄
Clients still receive reminders 8 and 4 weeks out. That way, the close down period does not affect your horses’ routine visits. A waiting time may occur when you book outside the reminders. We continue to see genuine emergencies immediately.

We encourage you to book horses due early next year, when the reminder arrives. This to avoid back logs: The practice will be closed some weeks in April May and June/July for veterinary post graduate teaching and tutoring commitments.

We’re delighted to also welcome vet students early and mid next year who will spend one or two weeks immersed in veterinary dentistry.

Thinking of this schedule ahead 😮‍💨😮‍💨 I need a holiday already!!

11/11/2024

Mule Magic 😎🍀❤️

05/11/2024

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03/11/2024

This beautiful boy was referred for a fractured front tooth. After a short surgery, he recovered swiftly in the yard. We placed a bucket muzzle to allow good hemostasis underneath the stitches. He was closely supervised during recovery.

While we are able to provide endodontics (root canals) to horses, in this case we had to remove the tooth.