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Originally Posted by ladyjane  Here it is...I don't need to ask them. As soon as I posted the above I realized I should be able to google it..
This is such an important topic. Whenever I hear about a healthy pet dying during a dental I always wonder if proper protocols were in place.
This also addresses those awful non anesthetic dentals saying they are "unacceptable and below the standard of care". I wish people understood this..makes me sick to my stomach to see this being done.
If you read about how much there is that needs to be monitored, you will understand how there is NO way two people could do this with one being the vet. If a vet is having the tech do dentals, it makes no sense the vet would be sitting doing the other stuff that does not require a vet to do. Vets are way too busy and are apt to be called out of that area for another patient. https://www.aaha.org/public_document...guidelines.pdf |
I agree! Jackson's old vet did not do x-rays first and I often wonder if problems couldn't have been addressed sooner if they had been.
His last dental which was in Nov. shortly after he turned 9, the x-ray showed them there was practically no bone left on all 6 bottom incisors, they all had to go. When he went to the dental center, they did x-rays, but he was a lot younger, I think around 2 or 3. That place was phenomenal. I never felt so safe leaving him somewhere lol.