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And I also wanted to talk about something and it's

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been it's been on my list of things to talk about,

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and the more I learn about it, and again, the

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important thing for us as veterinarians is where we never

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know too much that we should stop learning. And as

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clients come in and I have a big, full time

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practice out here in Los Angeles, and I find myself

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having to explain this so much that I realize, I'm

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sure this is not just my clients, but I'm sure

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that this is other clients as well. And the issue

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is dentistry. And we are going to talk for a second.

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Speaker 3: We have a caller.

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Speaker 2: Of course I want to take that call, but as

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soon as we're done here, we are going to talk

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about teeth cleaning groomers who do dentistry all these things,

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and we are going to set the record straight so

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you are well equipped to make sure your pets teas

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stay in tiptop shape and their mouths and organs very important,

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stay healthy. So before we get to that, we have

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a caller on the line.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Hi.

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Speaker 4: Hi, oh, I think I called it the perfect time.

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Speaker 3: I certain did, absolutely go ahead. Okay, who am I

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talking to? Let's get that straight.

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Speaker 4: Oh, this is Lisa.

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Speaker 2: Is by Lisa Ohio. And do you have a dog

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or cat or both? Ye're both okay, and you have

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a question about teeth. You couldn't have called that a better time.

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So what's your question?

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Speaker 4: Well, the chief question is this, I don't think what

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dog food is so good for the dog's teeth, but

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my husband thinks they must have white dog food. So

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I'd like to know what your thought is on that,

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because you know, and then the second thing is I

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noticed some tarder on my dog's teeth. She's almost not

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I'm a little nervous to take them to the dentist. Okay,

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they have to go put under it, you know, right,

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So you know the hard tarder that kind of almost

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it's like it's such like a hard shell.

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Speaker 2: On some of the teeth, right, all right, so actually

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these are perfect. I'm so glad Lisa that you called,

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because these are some of the things I wanted to

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cover anyway. So let's first talk about the wet versus

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dry dog food. It's very interesting because we've all been

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taught that we should be feeding our dogs especially dry

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dog food, because they crunch and they chew, and all

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these good things happen when they eat the dry food,

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and it is going to curb the amount of plaque

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and tartar build up. And I can't deny there is

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some truth to that. But here's what I find very

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very interesting, and out of the following that if you

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look at a dog's mouth, and if you take for example,

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your dog who's accumulating the tartar, and you look at

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the different groupings of the teeth. A certainly in the

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front you have the incisors. Incisors are for cutting, and

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clearly our domesticated dogs don't have to do a lot

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of cutting of their food to eat. Then we have

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the four canines. Those are the big fangs, and those

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are again historically for tearing, and again our domesticated dogs

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don't really need to do a lot of tearing to

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get to their food, So what do they do. We

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feed them foods that they chew, and the sets of

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teeth that do the chewing the most are going to

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be the premolars and the molars. What I find so

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interesting is if you look at a dog's mouth and

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where they accumulate the most tartar and the plaque, it's

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interestingly those teeth, of course that they're using to chew with,

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which are the premolars and the molars. And of course

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the dry food we're feeding them should by definition, which

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preventing some of this tartar from building up because of

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all the abrasive action of the chewing. But when you

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by far, it's the premolars and molars. So that's sort

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of counterintuitive. So one can argue that, well, the reason

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why they're accumulating these is they're being to use the most,

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and they are actually touching the surface of the food

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the most, and therefore those are the ones that are

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getting the tartar. But the argument against that would be

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supposed to break away and stop this tartar from building up,

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why are they getting tartar on those teeth. So the

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answer is I think this is you know, if you

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could do your own home study, and that is you

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feed your dog dry food, like apparently you have been

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feeding dry food, and feed you do a teeth cleaning.

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feed canned food and truly see does your dog truly

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accumulate even more plaque or tartar than it did when

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he was eating the dry food. So I'm a big

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fan of dry food for a number of reasons. A.

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It's easier to store, it's usually more cost effective. I

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find my dogs actually like crunching and chewing on food. Now,

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there are some really good dry foods out there that

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are tartar control diets that the actual dry food kibble

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is manufactured, made to a braid off the tartar to

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actually kick it off, because it's very hard. They very

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hard crunchy foods. They kind of break apart like car

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glass where instead of shattering and going all over the place.

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get smaller and smaller, but they stay right there, so

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then by the time they get really small, it is

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like sandpaper on the surface of the tooth, helping to

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cut away or to remove a lot of that plaque

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build up. Now, what is tartar basically starts as plack.

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bacteria of the mouth work on this plaque, work on

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this film, and with the mineralization, it actually hardens and

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starts to adhere to the surface of the tooth, and

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we call that tartar or calculus. Once it's on that

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surface of the tooth, it's going to be very difficult

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to remove. Even the best toothbrusher out there will not

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be able to remove the tartar. It's going to need

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professional cleaning. Whereas if in the form of plaque, where

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it's still that film, then that with good brushing, good

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oral hygiene can be removed. And if it is removed,

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hopefully there will be nothing to work on it as

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far as the bacteria in the mouth and the saliva

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with the minerals to harden it into non removable tartar

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or calculus, So there's really no winner to the argument.

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I think that I like the dry food better. However,

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if you're seems to like canned food, there's nothing wrong

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with adding some wet food to the diet. Just keep

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an eye on the fact. Yeah, I think it's great. Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I do that with my little dogs. I have five dogs.

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Speaker 2: I have three big ones, two Labradors and a labradoodle,

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and I have two little ones. I have two French bulldogs,

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and the frenchees get a mixture of dry and canned

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and they're happy as can be. So I have no

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problem with that to do a little mix. Now let's

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talk about the cleaning. This is kind of what I

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wanted to get to, as you've already learned, I'm sure, Lisa,

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because this is one of the reasons you call is

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that the industry, the experts recommend full anesthesia to do

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a teeth cleaning. And I often fought that, and I

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still do to a degree, and I have my alternative.

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But I will tell you that in many municipalities, many states,

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it is actually now against the Veterinary Practice Act, which

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makes it against the law for a non veterinarian or

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a non veterinary staff person under the direct supervision of

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a veterinarian to touch a metallic instrument to the surface of.

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Speaker 3: A pets tooth.

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Speaker 2: If they do so, that is being considered practicing veterinary

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medicine without a license. They can brush the teeth, they

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can wipe the teeth with a cloth or with a

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little rubber fingerbrush, but they may not actually scrape tartar

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away from the teeth in fear of violating the law

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of practicing veriny medicine without a license. So sometimes they're

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if this anesthesia free groomer comes into a vets office

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once a week or whatever, and the veterinarian's right there,

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that is acceptable.

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Speaker 3: Now what No, this.

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Speaker 4: Would be out of debt's office, and they always require

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blood tests to make sure it's okay. That's not going

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to be So I'm just worried about the YEA.

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Speaker 2: So you know, that's one of the reasons that the

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blood test is because the blood tests will let us

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know that, yes, the dog is healthy.

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Speaker 3: But I will tell you.

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Speaker 2: This for all of you out there listening and are

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under the false impression by looking at your pets teeth

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after a cleaning from a groomer or a non veterinary

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quote on dentist who's not really a veterinarian. Let me

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share this study with you. This was done by a

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board certified veterinary dentist and it was a several year study.

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of a fairly large number of dogs that were going

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to these groomoring locations for their teeth cleaning. And he

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contacted these owners and on his dime, he asked them

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to come to his office for pre cleaning pictures and

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then to come back to his office afterwards for post

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cleaning pictures.

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Speaker 3: Well, he and this was all on his dime. It

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cost the owner nothing.

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Speaker 2: He followed two groups of dogs, one group that had

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their regular dental cleanings from a veterinarian with anesthesia, and

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the other group that was going to these whatever, these

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non anethesia dentists or teeth cleaners. And after the course

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of several years, what he was doing he was not

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only taking post cleaning pictures, he was also taking post

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cleaning radiographs, oral films and following these dogs for it

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three or four years. And after the three or four years,

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the group that was done without any kind of sedation.

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The bone destruction at the root of these teeth was dramatic.

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Why because when you have a dog, I don't care

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if this is the best dog on the planet, if

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he is an awake dog, and you take that tartar

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scraper or you take that ultrasonic scaler and you try

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to get below deep into the gum sockets where it's

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gonna bleed. It's going to cause discomfort, it's going to

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cause pain, and expect that dog to sit still through

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it all. You are kidding yourselves. It is not gonna happen.

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So Consequently, though the surface of these teeth looked fantastic,

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what was going on under the gum line part that

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you can't see, the part that they could not really

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clean well and they couldn't access in an awake dog

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really led to major, major oral and health problems. So

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the bottom line is it is unacceptable now what some

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of us do. There are some agents out there that

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kind of put the dog or the cat even into

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what's called they like a twilight sleep, almost like a

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person who goes to the dentist has major major nervous

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issues at a dentist, as many people do, and the

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dentist uses nitrous oxide gas otherwise known as laughing gas,

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where the dentists can pretty much do everything he needs

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to do and the patient is sitting there. They may

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know what's going on, they may not, but they just

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don't care. And with under this type of sedation, these

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animals are still you can intubate them, which means you

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need to put a tube down the throat to protect

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the lungs from the mist that is going to be

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created by doing all this cleaning, because we don't want

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to inhale all these oral bacteria that are going to

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be aerosolized from the instruments that we use to clean

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the teeth. So you need to intubate. You like to

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deliver some form of oxygen, even if it's not going

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to be with an anesthetic gas.

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Speaker 3: And they're hooked up.

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Speaker 2: To monitoring equipment, so we're monitoring their blood pressure, monstering

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their heart rate, their respiration rate. So these are all

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important things to do. Even if they're not going to

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be one hundred percent completely fully anesthetized, they're going to

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be fairly heavily sedated.

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Speaker 3: Now, good question.

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Speaker 4: Sure, I'm getting about to phone in Canaria where my

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phone's just put up. So basically you save you the

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blood test and the dog is healthy enough then to

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be put under obviously, and it's done at a best

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office and it's been done there before, and I have

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very good confidence in my vet so that it would

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be saved. You know, he's going to be almost nine.

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Speaker 2: Right, absolutely, As I said, the point is when we

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do this, we have them hooked up to obviously anesthesia,

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they have oxygen, they have an IVY catheterin, so if

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there's any problem, we have already have a direct access

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to a vein and they're being hooked up to the

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monitoring equipment. So everything is fine. So if there's any

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kind of like extensive work that needs to be done

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to the teeth or the gums, then clearly they need

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to be an esthetized. If it's just a fairly routine cleaning,

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the amount of plaque or tartar isn't that bad, then

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I would recommend maybe some sort of lighter type of anesesia,

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like a try light sleep, but you need to use

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something or else. You are doing these dogs a disservice

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under the guys that the teeth are going to look

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great afterwards. Whichever way, you go, so you really want

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to be very very very careful.

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Speaker 4: All right, all right, don't make you expointment. Thank you

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so much.

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Speaker 3: You're very welcome. Take care, thanks for calling you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all back in, mark and mark your information

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and we'll send you out a pro sense product and

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a great contoy which by the way, are great for

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pets teeth.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, wonderful, thank you, Bye bye, thank.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to doctor Tadam. I'm doctor Jeff Werber,

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your host here on Hetline Radio. And we just had

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to call them, Lisa, and it was actually very timely,

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so you could not have picked the better time could

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call and ask about teeth. And for those of you

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that have missed part of the call, we're just talking

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about the importance of having a veterinarian or a veterinary

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staff member. Do your pets dentistries. Do not, I repeat,

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do not rely on these groomers that say that they

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can clean teeth, these not anesthetic dentistries.

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Speaker 3: That you are doing your petitive service.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the teeth looked great afterwards, and in a pinch,

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it might be fine. If you're going to frequent the

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dentist or your veterinarian for teeth cleaning, maybe twice here

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and one of those times you want to do it

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at this groomer. Maybe that's okay, But don't think for

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a second that for long term multiple cleanings, you are

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doing your peta service and saving yourselves money and your

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pet stress and trauma by not having to have them anesthetize,

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because in a long haul it's going to be hurting

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your dog and it's going to come up against you.

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I mean, the best alternative would be some sort of

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really really good, more mild sedation, and that would be

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kind of my recommendation if anything is to do that.

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In fact, that's traditionally that's what we do at our

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hospital is when we have teeth that we know are

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not going to need any extractions, that we know are

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going to there's no major gumwork, and we have clients

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that are very compliant and they come in regularly, then

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we can do is kind of a twice light sleep.

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And the beauty of that as well is that if

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in the process of doing our cleaning, we already have

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a Catherine place, we already have the dog intubated, which

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means they have an endotracheal tube and they're down there

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at trachea A is an airway device to make sure

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we have a good airway, and B to prevent any

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of the aeralization of the debris the bacteria in the

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mouth from being inhaled into the lungs. That if there's

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something that changes, if we see, oh my god, this

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tooth look pretty good, but now that we're getting into it,

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it's rotten and the gums are bad. We need to

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actually provide some true anesthesia. Everything is in place, all

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we have to do is turn on the gas. And

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for some reason people are so afraid of general anesthesia.

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And I mean not to say that mistakes or problems

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can never happen, or weird reactions can never happen, but

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they are really really rare, and typically when we use

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the general anesthetics, especially the newer ones like isofluorine civa fluorine,

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they are really really safe and fortunately very few of

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us have any kind of problems, and we take during

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the procedure before the procedure are so great that there

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really isn't reason to be afraid. You are actually should

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be more afraid of the ramifications of not having a thorough, professional,

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accurate teeth cleaning done. Then the fear of the risk

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very low risk of certain anesthetic procedures. You know, when

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you again, most of us are going to want some

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sort of blood work done before anesthesia. If you have

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a very fairly young, healthy pet, the blood work need

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not be extensive and therefore not expensive either. And of

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course if an older dog, well, you want to have

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some accurate current blood works. You want to know what's

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going on. You want to know how your dog is

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doing as far as liver and kidneys and pancreas and

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all these good things. So it's really not the end

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of the world.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: That brings me to another point, and I know i'm

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speaking for I'd love to say all of my colleagues.

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I obviously can't without knowing them all. I can't say

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this for sure, but I would say the vast majority

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of veterinarians out there don't gain pleasure out of pulling teeth,

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which means that when we have to pull a tooth,

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there is good reason either because the tooth is very

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loose and rotting, either because the oral the dental X

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rays show a major degree of bone destruction. And again,

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I want to something you're aware of because when you

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understand the process and then you hear from your veterinarian,

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it will actually help you more deal with realities. Here's

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a reality when plaque and tartar or i should say

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first plaqu and then tartar or calculus builds up on

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a tooth surface. As you all know, it is three dimensional.

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It takes up space. What you see on the surface

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of the tooth is actually also accumulating above or under

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the gum line, which means that in that socket, that

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bone socket, there is plaque firstly and then ultimately hardening

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to tartar that is filling the space little space at

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first between the bone and the tooth, between the root.

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When you now go in for a thorough cleaning that

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removes all of this tartar and this calculus, you can

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now clearly see that that which was taking up space,

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almost acting like a cement, is no longer there. So

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now the tooth is going to start rocking and rolling.

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So when you're in the office with your veterinarian and

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you're going over the teeth and he lifts up the

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lip and he's feeling the teeth and maybe you know,

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touching a little probe, and the tooth seems totally solid,

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and you leave the office that day, leaving your pet

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for the dentistry, and you're thinking, oh, that's great because

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my dog's teeth are all solid in the bone, and

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all of a sudden you get a call in the

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middle of the procedure saying, you know what, we need

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to pull three teeth? What do you need to pull

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three teeth? You showed me they're all great. It's because

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when you get all of that to breathe cleared away.

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Now nothing is there to take that space between the

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root of the tooth or the surface of the enamel, okay,

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and the bone or the socket or the gum. And

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now all of a sudden, these what were two three

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hours ago firmly rooted, seated teeth in the bone are

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now rocking and rolling loose. And that is just a

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recipe for major infection. So just know that your doctor,

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your veterinarian, is not pulling teeth because he or she

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likes to. They're not doing it because they want to

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rack up the bill. Trust me, when it's being done,

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when it's being recommended, it's because there is no better alternative.

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And another thing you might want to know, and if

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you don't already, there are and this is just for

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your own knowledge and maybe something you can speak with

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the veterinarian about. There are veterinary dentists out there. These

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are veterinarians that went to four years of veterinar school.

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They then did an internship and a residency in veterinarate dentistry,

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which covers all aspects of orthodontia and periodontal and endodontics.

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And they do root canals, and they do pulpotomies, and

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they do orthopedic procedures, and they'll fit with braces and

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bite plates and you name it. They shave down teeth

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if need be dogs that are like aggressive dogs that

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are doing a lot of biting, whatever it is. They

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are experts in teeth. So if there's any a time

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that you are a little bit reticent, for a little

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nervous about your own general practitioner recommending something and you

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really want to know, well, g doc is there? You know,

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can I see an expert? Yes, Veterinary expert dentists do exist.

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So just you can look them up online in your

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area and they will be board certified by the American

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Academy Veny Dentistry or the American College of Veterany dentistry

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and these are bored certified dental specialists that you could

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see if you have any real major issues with your

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pet's mouths, teeth, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, it is that time, so I want to thank

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Lisar Koller.

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Speaker 2: Any of you if you if you want to talk

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more about this or anything, go ahead and send me

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So looking forward to seeing in two weeks and again

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