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Lucyana1129 · 09-06-2011, 10:36 AM

Bentley has a smelly tooth. Its a baby tooth I think that wasn't extracted with the rest of them during his neuter a long time ago. It clearly needs to be removed. So I took him to the vet and he agreed. So, I called to make the appt to have it extracted and they quoted me $350. For the extraction and full dental. I honestly see nothing wrong with his teeth except the bad tooth. He has some light plague going on but nothing to be too concerned with right now. He recommended the dental. W/o the dental its only $159. Right now we can afford the extraction as he also just had a titer done. I'm concerned though about him going under again for the full dental in a few months. Should I hold off on having the bad tooth extracted until we have $ for the full dental as well? I brush his teeth every few days and I'm also wondering if they rnt trying to get me to spend more money as they do add things on to my estimate that he doesn't need sometimes. He's only 15 months old. Is a full dental really needed at so young an age? I'm the first to freak out about small things when it comes to Bentley's well being and I simply am not seeing that his teeth are in need of a dental at this point. However I don't want to put him in danger by going under twice. I planned to wait about 4 months to have the full dental. Is it safe to do it that way or to have them at the same time? That one tooth needs to go.

09-06-2011, 10:36 AM	#1
Lucyana1129 Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Tennessee Posts: 231 Blog Entries: 2	smelly tooth Bentley has a smelly tooth. Its a baby tooth I think that wasn't extracted with the rest of them during his neuter a long time ago. It clearly needs to be removed. So I took him to the vet and he agreed. So, I called to make the appt to have it extracted and they quoted me $350. For the extraction and full dental. I honestly see nothing wrong with his teeth except the bad tooth. He has some light plague going on but nothing to be too concerned with right now. He recommended the dental. W/o the dental its only $159. Right now we can afford the extraction as he also just had a titer done. I'm concerned though about him going under again for the full dental in a few months. Should I hold off on having the bad tooth extracted until we have $ for the full dental as well? I brush his teeth every few days and I'm also wondering if they rnt trying to get me to spend more money as they do add things on to my estimate that he doesn't need sometimes. He's only 15 months old. Is a full dental really needed at so young an age? I'm the first to freak out about small things when it comes to Bentley's well being and I simply am not seeing that his teeth are in need of a dental at this point. However I don't want to put him in danger by going under twice. I planned to wait about 4 months to have the full dental. Is it safe to do it that way or to have them at the same time? That one tooth needs to go.