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As a pet owner,
you strive to ensure your pet a long and healthy life. Dental
Health is of crucial importance to keeping your pet healthy.
Poor quality teeth can lead to secondary kidney and heart
disease. In humans, we take dental care for granted because
we start at a young age.
Dental tarter is a composite of food, bacteria and bacteria
by-products that form a very hard substance that is tightly adhered
to the surface of a tooth. Tarter accumulation may cause the
shedding of bacteria from the mouth into the bloodstream where it
can lodge anywhere inside the body leading to an infection.
This continuous source of infection will certainly shorten your
pet's life.
Large amount of tarter accumulation can also cause discomfort and
pain to your pet. An animal will rarely stop eating due to
pain originating from the teeth, but some owners notice a positive
change in their pet's eating habits following a dental
cleaning.
Good oral hygiene is as important to your pet's health and
well-being as it is to your own. Here at the Animal Medical
Center, your pet's wellness is our utmost concern and we want your
special family member to live a long, healthy, and pain-free
life. We would appreciate the opportunity to provide this
service for you and your pet.
What is included in our dental procedures at the
Animal Medical Center?
We only use
technicians/nurses who have been formally trained in veterinary
dentistry procedures so your pet's dentistry/prophy is performed
properly, and therefore having a lasting beneficial effect.
-All pets having dentistry/prophy performed, are properly
"intubated". Intubation refers to the placement of a
breathing tube through the mouth, then down the trachea (windpipe)
just like in a human hospital. This not only ensures accurate
delivery of the gas anesthesia, but also prevents water from the
ultrasonic scaling tip (to prevent heat damage to the gums/teeth)
from entering the trachea and then into the lungs. This could
result in "aspiration pneumonia"-a very severe lung infection that
can be fatal. This is why injectable anesthesia, instead of
gas anesthesia with/without intubaton, is so dangerous. But
despite the danger, some other practices still use injectable
anesthesia only.
-Our dentistry/prophy includes Periodontal Pocket Probing and
Dental charting/mapping. These measurements are applied to
the dental chart or mapped for home usage, so you can better
understand your pet's mouth/dental condition. We are the only
practice in our area including this with our dentistry.
-We also offer a new "perioceutic"
treatment for dogs in an attempt to save teeth rather than extract
them.
-All teeth are thoroughly ultrasonically scaled with a very safe
and non-invasive machine, polished and then fluoride.
-The pet receives an antibiotic injection to help fight the
bacteria that has formed from your pet's tarter/dental disease.
-You will have an educational release that the technician whom
performed your pet's dentistry will help educate you on some
preventative measures you can take. They will also explain
how your pet's dental went.
-All of our dentistry/prophy patients are connected to an ECG
monitor and a blood pressure monitor for anesthesia safety.
These allow us to make safe adjustments to your pet's anesthesia
as/if needed. We are the only practice in our area including
this with our dentistry.
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