By the age of three, most dogs and cats have some dental disease. It hurts, it hides, and it reaches the heart and kidneys long before you notice bad breath.
Pre-anesthetic bloodwork
Full-mouth digital X-rays
Scaling above and below the gum
Polishing and fluoride
A charted exam of every tooth
Pain relief to take home
Gentle handling on a padded table, with a nurse at the head.
Home the same evening, with a chart of what we did.
7:30 am
No breakfast after midnight. Water is fine. We go over the estimate together.
9:00 am
A nurse stays with your pet from the first sedative to waking up, watching heart, breathing and temperature.
10:00 am
About an hour. If a tooth needs to come out, we call you first, before we do anything.
4:00 pm
Sleepy but home for dinner, with soft food for two days and a call from us the next morning.
Age is not a disease. Bloodwork tells us how the liver and kidneys are working, and we tailor the drugs to the result. Most of our dental patients are over eight.
Not properly. Scraping awake only cleans what you can see, and the disease lives under the gum. It also frightens the pet.
Most pets every one to two years. Small breeds and cats often sooner. We tell you at each yearly exam.
Dental cleaning
From $420
Time at the clinic
One day
Anesthesia
Monitored
Extractions
From $90 each
Payment plan
Yes, 12 months
Broken tooth or swollen face?
Call (828) 555-0119
Between visits
1
Thirty seconds a day with a pet toothpaste beats five minutes once a week. Start with a finger and a treat.
2
If you cannot dent it with a thumbnail, it can break a tooth. Skip antlers, bones and hard nylon.
3
Red gums, brown crust or a tooth your pet avoids chewing on means it is time to book.
