Dental Procedures
Dental care is an important part of a horse’s primary care programme. We advise all horses/ ponies/ donkeys to have a routine dental examination and necessary dental work carried out at least once a year. Many (especially young and geriatric animals) will require examinations twice a year or sometimes more frequently, if they have severe issues.
About our routine and advanced dental procedures
Each of our ambulatory vets has a full mouth speculum for safe and thorough oral examination, head torch, motorised equipment and a full array of rasps fitted with tungsten carbide blades for efficient and effective rasping.
Most routine dentistry and some minor dental surgical techniques (eg. removal of wolf teeth), plus ancillary diagnostic services such as dental radiography or oral endoscopy for the investigation of dental problems, can be performed at the client’s premises.
Horses that require more advanced dental care, investigations or surgery can be managed at the hospital, where our RCVS and ECVS surgical specialists can perform standing oral extractions, remove cheek teeth under general anaesthesia by repulsion or buccotomy techniques and manage dental related paranasal sinus infections.