buccal Health and veterinary odontolgy

The animals must have a good buccal hygiene to maintain the healthy teeth and encías during all their life.
The main axis in veterinary odontolgy is the prevention by means of the care and cleaning of all the buccal cavity and in special of the dental pieces, in addition to the treatments of affections that could happen to him to the mouth of our friends.

With the recent Veterinary Medicine advances, the dental care, is perhaps the most important precaution than You can take to improve the quality and to add years to the life of your better friend.

A great amount of diseases has manifestations in the mouth; with specific injuries that allow their diagnosis (genetic diseases, sistémicas infections, immune alterations, neoplasia, nutricionales, diseases of the conectivo weave, gastrointestinales problems, endócrinas, dermatológicas, neurological and skeletal) reason why is recommended in many patients, that dental and gingival disease presents/displays, is made clinical analyses to him (biochemical, urinary hematológico profile, etc.)

There are factors that prearrange to suffer affections, reason why if its mascot is including in this group would have to make an examination and evaluation to him, the Veterinary Doctor will verify the existence or of signs of injuries in teeth and encías and will not decide, if it is necessary, a surgical treatment or a routine dental cleaning.

* Bad buccal hygiene: Without the suitable preventive cares, the plate and the fouling can be accumulated giving rise to gingivitis and periodontal disease.
* Race: The superposed teeth or badly aligned constitute, with more frequency, a problem in dogs of small races and can favor to the periodontal disease.
Certain races of cats (ej. Abisinio and Somalí) more are prearranged to the periodontal disease.
* Age: The dental disease takes place more frequently as the animals age, the loss of teeth and the serious infections of encías take control more common of the years.

Odontoprofilaxis of routine consists of polished scraping and of the teeth of the animal to eliminate the plate, the fouling and the spots, soon, a later treatment with fluorine; in the serious cases, the veterinarian can advise the extraction of the loose or injured piece. So that this procedure is most effective and safe possible, usually it is made under general anesthesia.

As we said care of mouth is very important, he is verified that diseases of encía and teeth prearrange to other pathologies such as endocarditis (infection of the cardiac valves which it takes to cardiac insufficiency), pielonefritis (severe renal infection).

Symptoms that would deberan to alert it:

* Fouling accumulation
* Halitosis (badly breath)
* Bled of encías
* Pain when eating, striking the mouth with the legs
* Change of the masticatorios habits or ingestion
* Dribbling of saliva

The application of the odontológico knowledge actually clinical veterinary medicine in small species must have a theoretical sustenance practical solid, that it allows therapeutic the most suitable one reason why the intervention of a specialist is recommended in many cases. More information in the care of the teeth.

Remember: an essential part of an integral program of health rests in the dental prophylaxis.

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Author: MV Adelaida A. Goldman

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