Last summer I did a short post on a kid with 10 retained baby teeth. What a piker. This is Abby. She’s not showing you much of her smile. At this point, you wouldn’t have minded seeing it, but you surely wouldn’t have wanted to smell it. She has a lot of baby teeth that […]
Category Archives: Dental Care
This is Tommy. He came in to get a skin problem checked out. Since a skin problem is sometimes just "the part you can see" of a whole-body problem, we always do a complete physical examination. In checking Tommy’s teeth, I found that his left upper cheek tooth was the wrong shape, covered with tartar, […]
This "Beau". He is thirteen years old, and this picture was taken about 15 minutes after we finished cleaning his teeth. His teeth were really covered with calculus (tartar), and he had a little gum disease. Cleaning his teeth was especially important because of his other medical problems. Not his lower back problems (which have […]
Well, not actually my first braces or retainer (that was 44 years ago, after all). I mean the first one that I’ve applied to a patient. In a previous post we talked about how retained baby teeth can lead to malocclusion: teeth that grow in where they don’t belong. On little Cocoa here, I failed […]
This is the special outlet where my new dental X-ray machine will soon be installed. I had to get a dedicated circuit put in (I can hardly wait for the electrician’s bill). There are lots of good reasons to take dental X-rays when you’re working on a pet’s teeth, but I’m only going to talk […]
I said before I went that I was looking for the seminar that would make dentistry fun. It must have happened, at least to some degree. This afternoon a good client brought in her old cat because she thought her mouth had been injured. The cat was drooling, and wouldn’t eat well. On examination, we […]
After work Friday, we made the six-hour drive to Columbia, Missouri, arriving around eleven-thirty. On Saturday, I arrived at the veterinary school for my dental seminar. It snowed a lot, and it snowed for a lot of the year back when I was in school there (1972-1978). Having snow in spring was a nice touch […]
In ancient times when I went through veterinary school, our dental training was pretty limited. In latter years I have bought textbooks, read journals and attended training courses. There are still plenty of things to learn, though, and I’m off to Columbia, Missouri for a 2-day dental training course. Saturday it’s lectures all day, while […]
You may remember the case of Cinnamon from a previous post. She made it in today to get her dental work. All of her teeth were still in her mouth when she arrived, but not many of them had much to hang on to. Once we began cleaning off the pus and tartar they began […]
After reading yesterday’s post, one of our flock asked for more information on rawhide chews. If you’re here reading, you probably already know that rawhide is supplied in a variety of forms. You can get potato-chip size chips, little strips, little strips rolled into "straws", big strips, big strips tied into a bone-shape, and a […]