Equine Dentistry Techniques and Treatment Flashcards
What is the only treatment that a lay person may provide to horses?
Manual removal of small dental overgrowths and sharp enamel points with hand instruments
What procedures are involved in category 1 of dentistry?
Procedures that are not acts of veterinary surgery
Who can perform category 2 dentistry on horses?
Qualified equine dental technicians
What is the main principle of rountine rasping?
Reduce excessive transverse ridges
List four risks of hand rasping
Less visual than motorised dentistry
Can still open pulps
Harder to learn than when motorised
Difficult to work on overgrowths at the back of the mouth
What are the two main instruments used with motorised rasping?
Diamond disc and apple core.
What is the apple core used for when motorised rasping?
Apple core used for focal small overgrowths and rostral profiling of the mouth
What equipment should you use for wolf tooth extraction?
Wolf tooth elevators
How should you use local anaesthetic in wolf tooth removal?
Approximately 3ml of local anaesthetic.
Lidocaine/adrenaline vials or mepivicaine
Inject into mucosa
How long should a horse be given as a rest without a bit after a wolf tooth extraction?
10 days (cans still be lunged/ridden bitless)
What is the most important dietary management tool to prevent periodontal disease?
Avoid short chop chaff based feeds
List three external pathologies you may see on external examination of a horse
Wry nose
TMJ swelling
Facial asymmetry
What is the lateral view of a radiograph of a horses head used for?
Sinus evaluation - NOT individual tooth root evaluation.
Which radiograph view gives the clearest view of the maxillary cheek teeth apices?
Laterodorso-lateroventral oblique
List three structures that can clearly been seen on a dorsoventral radiograph
Ventral conchal sinus, nasal cavities and nasal septum
