We are fortunate to have several veterinary dental specialists in Texas who can provide more advanced dental care such as endodontics (root canal therapy) for tooth fractures, orthodontics for malocclusions, restorative dentistry for cavities and oral surgery
for jaw fractures or oral tumors.
Not exact matches
It is a campaign to encourage veterinarians and pet owners to «Flip the Lip» of their pets and look
for abnormalities in the mouth, whether it be periodontal disease,
fractured teeth, oral tumors, orthodontic misalignment of teeth,
fractured maxillas (upper
jaws),
fractured mandibles (lower
jaws), sympysis separations, especially in cats (left and right mandibular separation), gingivitis, stomatitis and tooth resorptive lesion.
Dr. Keith Burge says Emmett has a broken
jaw, multiple skull
fractures and ruptured discs in his neck that left him paralyzed
for about the first week in their care.
Pets with poor dental hygiene are also at greater risk
for:
jaw fractures, bone infection, tissue / bone loss around the teeth, and nasal fistulas (a hole leading from the oral cavity to the nasal cavity).
If the disease affects the bony structures of the
jaw that hold the teeth in place, then it is possible
for the
jaw to
fracture.
K9 Blade returned to Purdue Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Teaching Hospital from Lake County, Indiana, this week
for a recheck after surgery four weeks ago to repair his lower left
jaw, which was
fractured during a police - action shooting.