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03-08-2015, 01:07 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: USA
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| Never to early Winnie gets her teeth brush everyday. Took to it easier then brushing. Hopefully she will have no Tarter, plague or gum disease like her big Brother Moki. IME brushing every day saves there teeth. Won't need dental as often..just deep cleaning but no extractions. best and easies thing you can do with you puppy. It becomes routine like hair brushing. JME http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f9...psapyvjzvl.jpg http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f9...pswllmyfje.jpg http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f9...pss1t4m37o.jpg |
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03-08-2015, 01:43 PM | #2 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| You are so right! So easy to slowly desensitize them to tooth brushing over time. Most never really truly learn to like it but they tolerate it as part of their day and the positive reinforcement they get afterward. And with a mouthful of healthy teeth and gums, they can eat anything and protect themselves better during an attack.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
03-08-2015, 01:45 PM | #3 |
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| Easy for them when they are babies. Just getting her use to the brush and paste. Her teeth are probably itchy and tender gums. But when the adult teeth are in she will be ready. But if you wait till they have gun disease it to late they will never let you |
03-08-2015, 01:46 PM | #4 |
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| The routine brushing hair and teeth Like a wild animal for 2 weeks. Brushing teeth is easier the the hair still. Always a battle. But everyday little at a time she will give in. I will WIN |
03-08-2015, 02:05 PM | #5 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| Although brushing is good for them. It's really mostly about genetics. There have been many people who brushed daily but there yorkies still needed dentals sometimes yearly.
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03-08-2015, 02:54 PM | #6 |
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| Genetics may play a part. But Genetics don't keep them clean??? Brushing is different to all ppl. Putting a brush in there mouth and letting there dog chew or actually brushing each tooth. Reason I say this is I've seen what ppl call brushing. JMO |
03-08-2015, 02:54 PM | #7 |
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| Still gonna need deep cleanings |
03-08-2015, 02:57 PM | #8 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Getting that plaque off daily can't help but leave less gunk for the bacteria to grow in. Once I went almost three weeks without brushing Tibbe's teeth and they actually looked brown-coated. He's really just geared to make gunk in his mouth. When I got him at age 9 months, his little teeth had almost a brown film on them and even though he was still young, he had bad breath. I'd never seen a dog that young with brown-coated teeth like he had. He's just a sitting duck for dental caries. I had his teeth professionally cleaned right after I first got him and yearly after that, brush them daily to 6 out of 7 days a week sometimes and they stayed white until I had surgery and let them go - and they got right back brown-looking again in no time until I was able to start brushing them daily again. I know that stuff was growing bacteria in it so some dogs just have to have daily or almost daily brushings. I hate to think how few teeth he would have by now, at age 7 1/2 years, if he only had yearly cleanings.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
03-08-2015, 03:08 PM | #9 |
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| Yorkies mouths are like plague traps. Brushing and chewing with deep cleanings. Works. I've had big dogs all they needed was to chew and there teeth stayed white..Seems all the small dogs I've had are like tarter mouth if you can't keep up on it. |
03-08-2015, 03:30 PM | #10 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| So true. My first Yorkie got an abscessed tooth B4 I realized he had bad dental plaque and caries or learned that dental plaque was a Yorkie problem. I'd smelled some bad breath but had no idea Yorkie's needed daily brushings and professional cleanings until that poor little baby of mine had blood on his face and an emergency trip to the vet revealed he had a tooth abscessed all the way through the muzzle and had to have antibiotics, pain medication, then surgical I&D and tooth extraction and cleaning under his gumline and teeth yearly after that. We brushed daily after that and I felt like the worst dog mommie ever! He'd been eating, behaving and playing normally until that day! I tried but never could make it up to him as far as I was concerned - poor, poor baby. How he must have suffered due to my ignorance and lack of care! But back then, I'd never heard of brushing a dog's teeth - had no idea Yorkies had this problem until that awful experience.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
03-08-2015, 04:06 PM | #11 |
T. Bumpkins & Co. Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New England
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| Totally genetics. I brush everyone dai@y. One was 8 and another 11.5 when had first dentals. The baby has had 3 dentals in his four years and goes for one this week. I'm lucky I can make it last 6-8 months in between but if I didn't brush he would need to go probably every 3 months and I sure can't afford that.
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03-08-2015, 06:30 PM | #12 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| Winnie is adorable. I think brushing helps, even for those dogs who have genetics against them. Same as humans. Good for the gums too.
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