Shocked Ashamed and Confused Our 7 year old (4/19) beloved Yorkie Francie returned home from her first dental minus 15 teeth! I brush as often as she will tolerate and use dental spray often. She has an excellent diet and is given great care.
I showed our Vet a loose tooth back in Feb and she wanted me to come in and have it looked at. I am so confused. Additionally, I showed the Vet a lower canine this summer that had become loose and the gum was receeding. She said not to worry it was common to the breed etc...
There was never any talk prior of the importance of dentals, etc... and no degree of urgecy ever.
We had a dental scheduled a year ago, but Francie threw up the morning of as if she knew she was going and we cancelled. I'm concerned that this delay made her have more extractions than necessary or was that inevitable? Either way the Vet has been seeing her since she was a pup, we just brought home a baby boy named Butler and I don't want to continue on with this Vet if she was negligent and non - communicative.
Also, shouldn't they have called us to weigh our options on the extractions - money is not an issue here we'd do anything for her, but feel that the procedure was a bit aggressive, especially since we thought it was going to be one tooth! Please help! |