[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by Lovetodream88

I went to school to become a vet assistant and scaling like that is not good. First you can't get under the gum line where most problems are and when you scale the teeth you put tiny grooves in the teeth and if you don't polish the tooth afterwords then you are leaving area for bacteria to grow and doing damage to the teeth. Please don't scale them at home allow a vet to do a thorough cleaning under anesthesia the right way other wise you could really be doing damage and only making them look pretty and not actually getting what needs to be done.