Equine Dental Surgery

Question 1

Common History:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Answer 1

1. Weight Loss
2. Constipation
3. Poor performance
4. Head shaking
5. Lameness

Question 2

Where do enamel points form?

Answer 2

Buccal edge of maxillary teeth and lingual edge of mandibular teeth

Question 3

laceration on tongue are due to enamel points formed in what location?

Answer 3

lingual edge of mandibular teeth

Question 4

Lacerations on cheek are due to enamal points formed in what location?

Answer 4

Buccal edge of maxillary teeth

Question 5

Correct floating technique?

Answer 5

in-and-out rasping motion

Question 6

Hook vs Ramp

Answer 6

Hook = cranial or rostral edge of the second pre-molar

Ramp - caudal edge of the third molar

Question 7

How to remove hooks?

How to remove ramps?

Answer 7

Float

Racheted tooth cutters (cause you cant see them well)

Question 8

Wolf teeth are (easy/difficult) to remove?

Answer 8

easy

Question 9

How to remove wolf teeth?

Answer 9

Sedate, local infiltration of the area, periosteal elevator them while removing entire root

Question 10

What muscle is atrophied in “sheer mouth”?

Answer 10

Massester

Question 11

What disease is characterized as an exaggerated form of enamel points? Which teeth are affected?

Answer 11

Sheer mouth.

Maxillary teeth become scissors

Question 12

How to treat Sheer mouth?

Answer 12

Grind a bit off, wait, and than do it again 3 weeks later. This disease is a long time in development, so you dont want to rasp it all off in one sitting

Question 13

Bumps on out the cheek and jaw areas of a foal are most likely due to what dental issue?

Answer 13

premolars caps that are on top of permanent teeth that have not come out

Question 14

How do you remove an impact P3 cap that is preventing the permanent tooth from growing in?

Answer 14

Use a screw driver to pry them off

Question 15

Two techniques for removal of cheek teeth:

1.
2.

Answer 15

1. Standing Extraction

2. Repulsion under general anesthesia

Question 16

Options for Repulsion of cheek teeth under general anesthesia:

1.
2.
3.

Answer 16

1. Trephination
2. Sinusotom (bone flap)
3. Buccotomy

Question 17

Instruments for standing tooth removal:

1.
2.
3.
4.

Answer 17

1. Long handled molar forceps
2. Molar cutters (tooth cutters)
3. Fulcrum
4. Tooth pick

Question 18

Steps for standing tooth removal:

1.

5.

Answer 18

1. Separate gingiva from tooth using gingival elevator to break down fibers
2. Loosening tooth using molar forceps to loosen the tooth
3. Side to side movement
4. Extraction using fulcrum
5. filled the alveolus with PMMA

Question 19

T/F: After removing a tooth, you want to fill the socket with PMMA

Answer 19

F, you want to fill the alveolus, but don’t want to fill up the socket itself. The socket will fill up with granulation tissue on it’s own. We just want to stop feed from getting into the socket and impeding healing

Question 20

Where do you place the trephine in regards to the tooth you want to remove?

Answer 20

Right over the root

Question 21

Dentigerous cysts are a (congenital/aquired) disease?

Answer 21

congenital

Question 22

Dentigerous cysts:

1. Tx?
2. Prognosis?

Answer 22

1. complete surgical excision

2. excellent

Question 23

Don’t forgot to put in a ____ during excision of a dentigerous cyst. Why?

Answer 23

Drain. You will have created dead space