the care of the teeth

The set of teeth of the dog: Whatever it is the race, except for counted exceptions, the aspect, size and coat of the dog, this zoological species has a series of morphologic, psychic and physiological characteristics that characterize it and identify of other next and similar ones. In most of the dogs it calls the attention powerfully the powerful and solid aspect of the dental pieces, as well as the robustness of the jaws and
maseteros muscles that impel and facilitate the movement of fauces. The dental formula of the adult dogs is composed by 42 pieces, distributed of the following form: Maxilar superior, with six incisors, two canine ones, eight premolares and four molares, had symmetrical form to right and left.
Inferior jaw: six incisors, two canine ones, eight premolares and six molares (two more than in the superior one).

Almost all the canine races have or must have a perfect adjustment of the canine ones, so that the mouth closing of hermetic form. This type of set of teeth is called of ?scissors closing?. Some types can have like specific and nondefective characteristics the advance or backward movement of the superior or inferior jaw. In boxer concretely the prognatismo or advance of the inferior jaw, a racial characteristic is considered that, on the other hand, authorizes to these animals for the progressive mordedura or of ?prey?, that does that, without loosen mouthful, the dog is taking terrain on the surface or volume of the catched prey.

The dogs change of youthful set of teeth, milk call ??, composed by less pieces, between the three or six months of age, presenting/displaying, generally, all the pieces to the seven or eight months.
The puppies have 28 temp teeth, 14 in superior maxilar and 14 in the inferior one. These caducos teeth approximately make eruption to three to four weeks of age. The puppies must lose the ?milk teeth? before being replaced by the permanent teeth, these begin to arise approximately to the 4 months of age. The dogs have 42 permanent teeth.
The approximated age of the dogs can be intuited by the state of wearing down of the different teeth, but also other physiological and morphologic characteristics must consider, that all meetings can determine of more or less certain form the years whereupon the dog counts.

The particular form of the teeth of these animals with canine, eyeteeth, conical, robust and sharpened own for the ?subjection?, and premolares sharp, as well as molares, provided with crushing crown, must be conserved in the best possible, free fouling state because the accumulation of he himself produces the halitosis appearance and, by all means, exentos of decay.
The decays are not very frequent in dogs and cats. The domestic animals, like the humans, can have decay, nevertheless, are relatively rare in the animals because, generally, they do not have rich sugar diets. The specialistic veterinarians in odontolgy have noticed a considerable increase in the incidence of decay between the dogs and cats, due to the candy flattery.
In order to avoid the decays it is necessary to feed them with an suitable diet them and to give them to only treats elaborated for dogs and cats.

Hygiene of the canine set of teeth: The maintenance of the whiteness, health and hardness of the teeth of the dogs could, in most of the cases, to take place of natural way, offering to our animals a correct feeding, as much in texture as in nutritional composition. The very hard bread, the porous bones and other eatable principles are suitable for this aim, but in special cases or particular races, brush daily (can be absorbed in meat juice so that he is more pleasant) and water must ?be cleaned? to the teeth of the animal with, after the meals and periodically the ?accumulated fouling? will even have to retire, simple operation that always must execute the Veterinary Doctor.

Of drawing of the incisors, cleared ?the eyetooth? or and the loss melladura canine and other deficiencies logics of the set of teeth frequent and irremisiblemente are irremisiblemente produced by the age. The gradual loss of the dental pieces is relatively common in longevos units, reason why it resorts to the soft diets or purés until the end of the life of the animal.

Another one of the most frequent alterations in the teeth of the dogs is the fracture or wears away premature of the pieces, produced by the custom to bite metallic stones or objects.
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