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Originally Posted by kalina82  personally i wouldn't get the dental done at all without anesthesia. Yes this person can get the tarter off the part of the tooth she can see, but with the dogs being awake she cannot get below the gum line where most of the bacteria hides. So even if they get their teeth cleaned by her now, they can still have dental problems because the whole dental process cannot be completed while the dog is awake. |
I asked the veterinary dentist about non-anesthetic dentals and I was told it is nothing more than a cosmetic procedure that removes only tartar that the person can see and there is no medical benefit. In addition, this procedure of scaling the teeth without a proper protocol can make holes in the teeth subjecting them to fractures and other issues. I did a lot of reading on this procedure and decided it was too risky, the people performing it have no training that I would be comfortable with, and it just seemed overall to be not medically acceptable dental care. I think borders on authorized practiced of veterinary medicine without a license since they "grade" teeth and assess periodontal disease (all that without xrays or a veterinary degree). Scary.