Sentences with phrase «often fracture teeth»

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Homemade diets and commercial BARF diets are often demonstrable unbalanced and have severe nutritional deficiencies or excesses.16 - 18 Dogs have been shown to acquire and shed parasitic organisms and potentially lethal infectious diseases associated with raw meat, including pathogenic strains of E. coli and Salmonella.25 - 27 Many other pathogens have been identified in raw diets or raw meat ingredients, and these represent a risk not only to the dogs fed these diets but to their owners, particularly children and people with compromised immune systems.29 - 30 The bones often included in such diets can cause fractured teeth and gastrointestinal diseases, including obstructed or perforated intestines, and the FDA recently warned pet owners against feeding bones to their canine companions.

The result is often fracture of a tooth that may or may not extend into the pulp canal of the tooth.

Crown height reduction can often be curative in the beginning stages of dental disease when accompanied by diet correction and other preventive measures.1 — 3 However, in cases of moderate to severe dental disease, crown height reduction procedures will need to be performed repeatedly.1 - 3 Overgrown incisors or cheek teeth should be trimmed using a dental bur or trimming forceps (FIGURE 6A) designed specifically for crown reduction.1 - 3 Nail trimmers, rongeurs, and other manual cutting tools should never be used to perform crown height reduction.2, 3 Root damage, tooth fractures or splinters, and abnormal regrowth are likely to occur when using improper equipment.2, 3 Crown reduction performed without sedation or anesthesia is difficult and often done blindly, resulting in missed sharp points or spurs and injury to the gums, cheeks, or tongue.1 - 3 Rabbits with moderate to severe dental disease should be anesthetized, allowing crown reduction and reshaping to be performed with a low - speed dental bur while protecting soft tissues with bur guards and dental spatulas.1 — 3 (FIGURE 6B)

Tooth fractures are common dental injuries and are seen most often in dogs that chew on cage or crate doors, fences, cow hooves, rocks or hard toys.

When using rongeurs to cut the molars, the teeth often fracture and get damaged, and you can not make fine adjustments to normalize the teeth.

If only the enamel has been fractured, the tooth can often be smoothed to remove sharp edges.

The carnasial tooth is particularly prone to «slab fractures» and cracking that often allow exposure of the root canal and result in secondary infections.

Fractured teeth can be repaired with the use of crowns and root canals are often replacing extractions.

In contrast, larger dogs tend to chew on toys and other things that keep their teeth healthier, but we often see fractures in these dogs from chewing on rocks and bones.

Extraction can be a tricky procedure to perform because affected teeth are usually quite fragile and often fracture and splinter during removal.

Cat that have been in car accidents often have fractures of the jaw or broken teeth that cause similar signs.

By protecting the player's skull from an open fracture, his face from broken bones and his teeth from getting knocked out, the modern helmet has encouraged players to collide more violently and more often without fear for their own safety.