The palate is the tissue dividing the mouth from the airway above it. It is divided into the hard and soft portions.

Some horses will react adversely to medications showing a disruption from the normal skin condition. These include bumps, depigmentation, and temporary inflammation.

In vet school I learned that a lump is a lump until proven otherwise. Only a biopsy can determine or confirm a diagnosis.

Whenever trauma occurs inside the mouth of the horse, the reaction from the horse can be anywhere from nothing at all to drooling and an inability to chew.

Skin rubs occur either acutely from trauma or insidiously through wear against objects such as tack, blankets, or the environment.

Underbite In Horses

When a wolf tooth in a horse doesn’t erupt through the gum, it is called a blind wolf tooth.

Scars occur during healing of full thickness skin wounds including surgery. They can range from unseen but felt to hairless, depigmented masses.

Finding the source of infection and stopping it there often is more efficient than treating the horse after he becomes sick. This includes quarantine of new horses added to the herd.

Wolf teeth are the vestigial teeth that lie in front of the first upper (and rarely the lower) cheek teeth.

This common cancer is locally invasive on pink skin such as the eyes, penis, and in the skull of the horse.

This severe disease is often confused with habronemiasis which is also commonly called summer sores. This is a fungus based, highly invasive cancer that can affect a horse anywhere on its body.

The synchronous beating of the heart along with rapid contraction of the diaphragm (hiccups) is brought on by an electrolyte imbalance in horses worked hard in the heat.

Tail rubbing is common in stabled and non-stabled horses and the cause is simple as well as the solution. The frayed hairs at the tail head is evidence although most horses uncontrollably itch their rear ends in front of you.

The veins of horses normally do not have obstructions but when they become occluded either partially or fully, then the blood flow ceases and they become enlarged. the blockage is usually a blood clot called a thrombosis.