The phrase
"full anesthesia" means a state where a person is deeply asleep during a medical procedure and doesn't feel any pain or discomfort.
Full definition
Professional dental care
includes full anesthesia for examination and cleaning of your pet's teeth at routine intervals.
A biologist reports seeing an extremely painful technique, which most groups use only
with full anesthesia, applied by other groups to domestic animals in full consciousness, with no justification except laziness.
These dental cleanings are performed under heavy sedation («Twilight anesthesia»), instead
of full anesthesia.
The safest protocol is to
do full anesthesia, and if extractions are needed, dental radiographs should be offered and available.
Our patient's are placed
under full anesthesia with comprehensive monitoring equipment and fluid administration through a catheter.
Historically, veterinarians have firmly held to the belief that dental cleanings should be
with full anesthesia, as only then can a thorough cleaning be performed and, if extractions / dental procedures are needed, they can be done simultaneously.
Anesthesia can be tailored to the needs of senior cats, but short
of full anesthesia, there's probably not much that can be effectively done.
Spaying is the surgical removal, performed under
full anesthesia, of a female animal's ovaries and uterus.
This pre-medication helps the pet relax so that
full anesthesia can be induced more smoothly and safely.
Non-sedation dental procedures and dental procedures performed without full intubation (
full anesthesia) do not provide these benefits!
Laura Gayle, one of our registered technicians performs a dental cleaning with the pet under
full anesthesia and Jordan Kay - Graham monitors.
We perform all procedures under
full anesthesia and we have a full dental suite for extractions and mass removals.
All dental procedures are performed under
full anesthesia to protect the patient's lungs and allow us to perform a thorough and complete examination and full dental radiographs.
Tracheal cytology may be performed on a cat that is sedated rather than under
full anesthesia.
The benefit of these technologies is that pets typically need only mild sedation, rather than
full anesthesia, for these tests to be performed, making them not only extremely helpful but also extremely safe.
Debarking or devocalization is a surgery performed under
full anesthesia that removes all or part of a dog's vocal cords.
Add to that, cats and dogs have a significant amount of their dental disease UNDER the gumline, and this is only accessible by evaluating and cleaning under
full anesthesia.
Best of all, zeutering is completed using light sedation only compared to
full anesthesia of surgical neutering.