A veterinary dentist is one that works with animals. If your pet has tooth problems, this is the specialist to see.
Our pets can be our best friends and when they have oral health difficulties,
they should take a trip to the veterinary dentist. This veterinarian specialist can help your dog, your cat or even wild animals in the zoo. When any living creature has dental pain, it can make them miserable and even endanger their lives. Good oral health care is imperative for the mouths of those in the animal kingdom, just like it is for humans.
There are arrays of treatments offered for your pet by a veterinary dentist, including:
- Preventative services: Cleaning, polishing and scaling often need to performed, evaluations of bite and jaw functioning, puppy tooth extractions and genetic counseling.
- Repairs and oral health care treatments: Fillings, cracked tooth and jaw bone fractures, oral tumors, root canals, bridges, gingivitis problems, palette repairs, and autoimmune issues that have manifested in the mouth and gums.
- Many procedures, including some preventative services, must be performed while the pet is sedated. Anesthesia will be administered by this veterinarian professional in order to assure that the pet is kept comfortable during surgery.
If a pet develops an infection in tooth, gums or mouth region, it may spread to body and bloodstream and endanger its health. Dental issues in animals need to be taken as seriously as those in humans.
Wilder animals also require dentistry professionals. Monkeys, pot bellied pigs, bears and wildcats all have teeth that need to be looked after. Animal disease may show up in the mouth before other areas in the body show red flags of illness. Regular dental care will spotlight health problems in the early stages in order to keep them from escalating.
Lions and tigers rely on their teeth to survive. Tigers especially require large amounts of calcium in order to keep from depleting their stores. There are times when dental pros need to design a special diet in order for these sleek and striped animals to keep bone density at an appropriate level. Lions may break one of their choppers while munching on a large bone. If this occurs, the lion may cease eating. The animals’ appetite will disappear in response to the break -- causing the possibility of malnutrition and the breakdown of the body. The king of the jungle may need a root canal and crown, just like us.
Whether it’s the mouth of Rover the dog, Fluffy the cat or those a bit wilder, every animal needs regular check-ups by a dentist.
