Routine tooth and gum care is as important for your pet as it is for you. In fact, we counsel clients on proper oral hygeine for their pets with dietary management and home care. We’d like to show you with your pet present “what to look for”. Most conditions are quite painful and yet pets don’t always reveal it. Dacshunds and Shih Tzus with retained teeth? Labrador retreivers with fractured teeth? Young felines with recedining gumlines and bad breath? Older cats with missing sections of teeth?

Some conditions require advanced interventional care including dental x-rays to improve visualizing affected teeth and the surrounding bone, prophylactic dental cleaning, surgical extraction of retained roots. Some teeth with cavitary lesions detected early enough can be saved using laser techniques (see below) and bonding materials.

Dental care is not limited to cats and dogs, but to rabbits, guinea pigs, and other exotic pets as well. For more information on dental care, please contact Drs Morris Samson or Mike Irving at drs@beachvet.com and dri@beachvet.com.