The boarded vet dentist here told me that if you don't brush them 3x/week, might as well not at all. As for me, I gave up on brushing long ago. I did it faithfully for years but my pups still lost teeth and I just resigned myself to living with it.
The last year that I brushed their teeth was when I took my siblings, Armani and Pippi, in for their dentals one year. I had brushed their teeth daily for that year! His teeth looked awful, hers looked great....he didn't lose any teeth and she lost 5! That was IT for me. It also told me more about how what is under the gums is more important than what we see.
I don't dispute that it helps, but, at the end of the day, most of this is genetics. |