I am doing an experiment with 3 different water additives on my 3 dogs that I do not want sedated for dentals for whatever reasons. So, to answer your first question, use water additive, feed hard kibble, and brush teeth using the enzyme toothpaste for dogs PLUS a Soni-Care electric tooth brush.
Alternatives to Intubation: with a tiny little dog, giving any IV sedation is really dangerous....Propofol is easily metabolized by Yorkies, and it is quickly excreted, but Lordy, you have got to have a vet that can titrate the very tiny amount you would need to infuse, to keep the baby lightly sedated enough to do a dental, without over sedating her...and you need to have intubation on standby, because respiratory rate will be the first to go if they give too much, to quickly.... The beauty with Propofol is , when you quit infusing it, the patient begins to wake up....so unlike unreversed gas anesthesia, they dont lay unconscious or sleeping for any length of time....after a minute or two, they begin to come up from it. But if the vet is not careful, very attentive, or up on his calculations/titrations, it can be very dangerous....just ask Michael Jackson what unsupervised infusion of Propofol can do to you. |