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10-03-2011, 10:27 AM | #16 |
Thor's Human Donating Member | Grrrrrr. They just called me, and not only does Thor have to lose two more teeth, apparently his original vet did not fully extract his baby teeth three years ago! The roots are still in the gum. This is kind of awkward, because I volunteer with the rescue associated with this vet, but clearly I cannot use them ever again.
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10-03-2011, 10:31 AM | #17 | |
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Poor Thor...that had to be painful. Thank goodness it is being taken care of now.
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10-03-2011, 10:37 AM | #18 |
Thor's Human Donating Member | Yeah, I will probably tell the vet and/or the rescue coordinator. They are under one umbrella, so it's not like the rescue can go somewhere else for dental work. I hate conversations like that, but I think necessary under these circs. This is a good lesson for me, though I really wish it did not come at Thor's expense. I always sort of knew that this practice had a lot of younger vets running through and I was probably only getting basic care, but I should really have made the effort to find Thor an excellent vet and built a relationship. I did think that they were at least competant, which it appears that they are not.
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10-03-2011, 10:52 AM | #19 |
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| Unfortunately that just happens sometimes. Some vets just don't know how to pull teeth properly (yikes, eh?). Not all vets are good and very young vets usually don't get near my kiddos. I like experience. And also xrays are technically supposed to be taken when extracting baby teeth although nobody does it. I imagine that would avoid some of these types of problems. He'll be fine, I'm sure. They really don't miss the teeth that they lose. He'll be in much less oral pain now.
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10-03-2011, 11:00 AM | #20 |
Thor's Human Donating Member | Yeah, the vet he's with said that they probably did not take xrays afterward because there's no way they could have missed this on an xray. My original vet had actually told me that his baby teeth were very easy to extract!
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10-03-2011, 11:48 AM | #21 |
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| Wow, that sucks! It does put you in an awkward position. I am so glad you got it taken care of, though. I am sure Thor thanks you for it. Give him some TLC and hugs and kisses from Jackson and I!
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10-03-2011, 04:49 PM | #22 |
Thor's Human Donating Member | Well... Thor ended up losing four more teeth. The vet said one of the top ones at the very very back had developed an abscess. She also said that there wasn't any way to extract the roots of the baby teeth without pulling out the molars right behind the top canines. I guess this is a happy ending... Thor is back in my apartment, eating and sleeping. My head is kind of spinning with all this conflicting info. Now I'm kind of wondering if she should have left the baby teeth roots in so Thor didn't have to lose the molars. I could have gotten regular x-rays to make sure they didn't abscess. Honestly, this is why I am so uncomfortable with H&W. Training I feel like I understand all the different schools of thought and the research behind it, and if you make a mistake, at worst, your dog never gets potty trained. It drives me crazy that there isn't even a consensus on what the best diet for your dog is, let alone finding a good vet that is knowledgeable about all the different areas of the body, then knowing when to overrule your vet... oy vey! . . . . . Oh, AND the vet said he's eventually going to lose all his lower incisors. She said he just doesn't have enough bone to keep them in place, and if he ever gets any kind of infection in there again, they're goners. Not like within the next year, but within the next five. Yippee.
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10-03-2011, 04:52 PM | #23 |
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| Poor Thor, losing all those toofs. I'm glad he is home and doing well.
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10-03-2011, 05:02 PM | #24 |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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| That's what makes vet med so fun! I'd say why not just get the roots out of there while having oral surgery anyway. Doesn't sound like a bad call at all. His gums should be much happier now. I think some of what looks like disagreement on how to care for dogs is really just a bunch of opinions thought to be fact. Good vets (imo) follow the experts in the field (the researchers at vet schools, etc.). They stick pretty close to the book which is standard of care. Some vets don't and those are vets that I avoid. There will always be reasons to improvise, do something that maybe isn't supported by current research, etc., but for the most part vets should be respecting those in the field that know more than them. I think that goes for food to a major extent and vaccines.
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