Cavities and EOTRH In Horses – Podcast #107 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Cavities And EOTRH In Horses" - This podcast is a mix of two subjects. The first subject concerns oral care and teeth health in horses. I go over a p…
Category: Teeth and Oral Cavity System
EOTRH, Donkey Dentistry, and Cheek Tooth Extractions – Podcast #092 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"EOTRH - Equine Odontoplastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis" - This podcast covers three topics within the interest of dentistry in horses. EOT…
Equine Dentistry For 40 Years – Podcast #079 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"40 Years Of Horse Dentistry" - Four decades of floating horses have filled me with experiences hard to gain from a textbook. In fact, in 1983, there …
Various Topics – Rounds With Doc T (see excerpt) March 2, 2023 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
1) Pin Firing. 2) Fever of unknown origin. 3) Dental pain. 4) Veterinary versus lay dentists. 5) Medications in equine dentistry. 6) Hock surgery.
Various Topics – Rounds With Doc T (see excerpt) February 1, 2023 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
1)Threshold of pain. 2) Medication v sedation. 3) Cheek tooth fractures. 4) Tooth abscess. 5) Misoprostol & gut ulcers. 7) Laminitis in a donkey.
Various Topics – Rounds With Doc T (see excerpt) January 19, 2023 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
“Ask Me Anything” - The following questions were submitted (copied and pasted from the Q&A section in Zoom or from emails), along with any posted …
Aging The Horse By The Teeth – Podcast #070 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Can Teeth Tell A Horse's Age?" - Several years ago, I asked owners with horses of verified age (papers or lip tattoos) to allow me to photograph the …
Weight Loss In Horses – Dental Or Not? – Podcast #061 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Quidding And Weight Loss In Horses" - Many horse owners associate weight loss in horses with dental issues. The most common sign of a dental problem …
Cavities In Horse Teeth And More – Podcast #047 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Do Horses Get Cavities?" - I go over some of the recent articles showing up in the magazines and news feeds for horse owners discussing 1) cavities i…
The TMJ Of Horses – Podcast #034 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
"Can Horses Have TMJ?" - This podcast discusses my experience with tens of thousands of horses and discusses what I have found in my observations and …
EOTRH – The Disease Affecting The Incisor Teeth Of Horses – Rounds With Doc T ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis (EOTRH) is a new disease of horses affecting the health of all horses’ incisors and canine…
General Dentistry – TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint) In Horses
General Dentistry – Signs Of Sharp Dental Points ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Signs Of Sharp Dental Points In Horses
Cheek Teeth – Waves ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
An uneven occlusal surface along the arcade of cheek teeth is commonly called a wave. Some feel that the unevenness needs to be leveled however in my…
Cheek Teeth – Cap Fractures ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Cheek Teeth Cap Fractures In Horses
*Teeth And Oral Cavity ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This subject is divided into sections organized by teeth (incisors, cheek teeth, canines), the oral cavity and the skull pertaining to the teeth. Th…
Speechless In A Case Of EOTRH In A Horse ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a story of a horse owner who I never met but called to ask if extracting all of the lower nipper teeth was a normal thing to do in a horse wit…
The Trouble With Dentistry As Seen By A Human Doctor ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
A popular medical doctor wrote an article "The Trouble With Dentistry." I apply his thoughts to equine dentistry, diet, cheek tooth fractures, lectins…
What Is The Cause Of EOTRH In Horses? ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The cause of EOTRH in horses is based on the current thought that it is an autoimmune disease. Lectins without mucous leads to leaky gut at the gums.
Top 10 Things To Know Inside Your Horse’s Mouth – HorseTalk Webinar ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The top ten things about what is inside the horses' mouth and why I think we all need to clearly understand them as horse owners and trainers.
Canines – Calculus (Tarter) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Calculus is the accumulation of saliva and food debris that hardens and forms a crust on a tooth. Here it is formed on the canines of some male horse…
Canines – Debris ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Calculus on canines are usually uniform, but in some horses, more feed becomes entrapped in the crusty material.
Canines – Decay And EOTRH ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Canines in some older horses lose their integrity and decay. This is often associated with EOTRH but can also be from trauma.
Canines – Fractures ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
These teeth of male horses sometimes are placed against something harder, such as a steel stall bar. The result is fracture of the canine.
Canines – Large ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Canines are used as weapons and some horses have very big canines.
Canines – Unusual Findings ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Canines - Unusual Findings In Horses
Canines – In Female Horses ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Canines are found in almost every male horse (stallions and geldings) but are rare in female horses.
Canines – Just Erupting ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Canine teeth of male horses (and occasionally females) can erupt anytime, but most commonly from before birth to 3 years of age.
Cheek Teeth – Calculus (Tarter) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Some horses accumulate saliva and feed in the sides of their cheeks that turns to hard calculus on the cheek sides of the first 1 to 3 cheek teeth.
Cheek Teeth – Cap Remnants ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Deciduous teeth ("Caps") of young horses attach themselves to the underlying permanent tooth with tips of tooth. These often break off and remain bet…
Cheek Teeth – Cap (Deciduous) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The 12 premolar cheek teeth have precursor deciduous teeth (caps). The 12 molar cheek teeth do not have deciduous teeth.
Cheek Teeth – Displaced ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Cheek teeth when not aligned with the rest of the teeth in the arcade are called displaced.
Cheek Teeth – End Stage ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Cheek teeth have a finite lifespan and when they run out of reserve crown, there is nothing left to hold them in. These are end stage teeth.
Cheek Teeth – Eruption Bumps ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
When the permanent premolar cheek teeth push into position, they often cause lumps that appear on the face and lower jaw. These are normal and are no…
Cheek Teeth – Extractions ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
On occasion, the cheek teeth of horses need to be extracted, though in my practice, it is extremely rare.
Cheek Teeth – Foreign Objects ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Foreign objects are usually organic (hay and other feed) that get stuck between the cheek teeth when an unusual gap exists.
Cheek Teeth – Fractures ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Cheek teeth fractures are very common and are usually non-events in the horse's life.
Cheek Teeth – Hooks ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Hooks are the over-eruption of a tooth and are seen when there is no opposition in chewing.
General Dentistry – Chewing Motion ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The chewing motion of horses can be affected by trauma to the head.
Oral Cavity – Flabby Cheeks ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Flabby Cheeks is the description of excessive tissue that lays in front of the first lower cheek teeth of horses. It is one of the three major reason…