Re: [AlpacaTalk] RE: Teeth trimming
For the future, as I'm Susan now knows all too well, it is only under
very rare occasions that it is necessary to remove teeth. Those would
be for real medical reasons, never for cosmetic reasons. Tooth broken
at the root and no chance for growing back, root abcess when other
courses of treatment have failed...
Just because an animal has broken a tooth and it looks "bad" is no
reason to remove teeth! Even if an animal I take into the show ring
has both baby and adult teeth present, I will never have the baby
teeth removed, just because I'm showing him/her. We did that once,
the male did take blue at a level 4 show, but now his adult teeth
didn't have that retainer effect from the baby teeth, so it looks
like be has a bad bite. Well, his bite isn't perfect, they do extend
past the dental pad and they don't wear properly.
So my advice is to forget that show, if your boy has wonky teeth at
the time. I'm sure Susan agrees! Of course, we shouldn't have had to
learn these things the hard way. And why are vets to eager to pull
teeth willy-nilly?
Heather
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posted by Chaddo at 7:27 AM
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