| The Old Pound Veterinary Centre offers a first class and cost effective dentistry service for horses. Our aim is to increase horse owners’ awareness of the great importance of routine dental checks and treatment. All of our equine vets are fully trained in modern equine dentistry and have the benefit of being able to fully assess each horse as a whole and administer sedative and pain killing drugs when necessary. We use modern efficient rasps, various motorized tools and have full surgical facilities to follow through more detailed cases such as cheek tooth removal following root infection.
Each of the vets has in their car a full mouth speculum for safe and thorough oral examination, head torch, large syringe for cleaning the mouth, a full array of rasps fitted with modern tungsten carbide blades. We also all carry sedatives for those slightly nervous patients to make dental treatment safer and kinder for the horse.
Most dentistry is performed on our clients’ premises, but increasingly we are treating more patients at The Old Pound Equine Centre in Aston Munslow. This is usually for more advanced procedures such as correction of severe overbites, hooks and tooth extractions. We can also provide ancillary diagnostic services such as x-rays to help with more involved cases, and have all the facilities to deal with most dental problems. Some clients, however, bring their horses to us for more routine treatment simply for convenience, to make use of our facilities and to help to reduce costs.
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We will be visiting your horse annually or 6 monthly for vaccinations so this provides an ideal opportunity to examine your horse's mouth. There is no charge for a dental examination, whether or not we carry our any treatment subsequently.
All of our vets carry in their cars the following equipment for equine dentistry:
- full range of modern efficient rasps with solid carbide blades
- stainless steel bucket
- large dose syringe for mouth washing
- full mouth speculum (gag) for safe and thorough oral examination
- head torch for examination in the mouth
- 'wolf' tooth extraction kit
- deciduous (baby) cheek tooth extractors
- anti-bacterial mouthwash
sedatives, local anaesthetics, tetanus anti-toxin, antibiotics etc. |
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At the surgery, we also have motorised equipment for correcting particularly severe deformities. These tools are portable, but it is often easier and safer to use the stocks at the surgery for such cases.
In Keeping with our promotion of preventative equine medicine we are offering the following:
- 10% off vaccination and dental treatment (not including sedatives) when taken at the same time. (Ends 31st December 2007)
- 15% off vaccination, dental treatment and worm egg counts when taken at the same time. (Ends 31st December 2007)
Group dentistry bookings are an excellent way to make high quality dentistry affordable. For 6 or more horses we offer a reduced price for routine work and there is no visit charge. |
