Equine Veterinary Dentistry

Dr. Leslie Karkheck is a native of Ida, MI and a graduate of Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. After graduation, she was accepted into a rigorous and highly competitive internship at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, KY. She practiced at Rood and Riddle for two years, studying under some of the world's top equine veterinarians. She has been practicing medicine

since 2008 and opened her own equine dentistry practice in the summer of 2017 to fill a need for professional veterinary dentistry in an around Monroe county. Dr. Karkheck's passion for horses and medicine stems from her childhood on a small Thoroughbred breeding farm. Her mother and grandmother are both horsewomen as well, riding and occasionally showing horses in Monroe County for many years.