Dental Extractions

Dental extraction is a very versatile treatment for any painful tooth condition, inflammatory condition, or diseases of attachment loss like periodontal disease. The greatest thing about extraction is that there is minimal to no follow up required after the tooth has been completely removed.

Downsides of dental extraction as a treatment are that once the tooth is gone, it's gone forever and cannot be replaced. Dental implants are not part of our practice.

The only reason to extract teeth in animals is because they are causing pain or inflammation, or they are causing trauma to another structure in the mouth. When we can, we often will opt for tooth preserving modalities, but this is highly dependent on the individual condition that a pet may have.

And YES! They can eat without teeth! Many pets are much more comfortable and see an improvement in appetite after surgery.