i'm sorry to hear that your pup had to have 15 teeth pulled. Sometimes there is no way of knowing what needs to come out until you get in there. Did she have a lot of tater on her teeth or did she have gingivitis?
sometimes when doing a dental on a dog or cat once you start scraping the tarter off you notice that the teeth are basically held in by the tarter so once you remove it the teeth are too loose to keep in. Or the gingivitis or peridontal disease is so bad that the pockets above the teeth are too deep. there is a tool used that slides in under the gum line to check the depth of the pockets. these pockets are just loose gum that isn't really holding the tooth in place. when the pockets are really deep that means the tooth isn't held in place very well and teh pockets are just deep bacteria breeding grounds. so the tooth needs to come out and the hole needs to be sutured shut.
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