Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Something so tiny........

I recently performed dental surgery on the cutest little cat. During her yearly physical, we found that Button (as in cute as a button), had fractured one of her incisors. Since the pulp was exposed we needed to extract it. It did turn out to be an eye opening procedure as we found something we weren't exactly expecting.

My RAHT, Kelly, took a great picture of the cavity on the canine tooth. The green arrow is pointing at the tiny little defect that was so painful that her mouth chattered when it was touched under the general anesthetic. If you've only read one of my dental blogs you know the next step was a radiograph.

This picture did not give me the warm fuzzies cause the root sucked! (Yes, that is a professional and medical term!) The picture on the right is from my dental book to show you what a normal root is supposed to look like. Needless to say, we extracted that tooth as well (after tracking Mom down at her dental appointment across town, LOL)!

4 comments:

  1. Glad that she is no longer in pain. Dental work on pets is as important as it is for humans, in my opinion.

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  2. I love this blog. I can really tell that you care about these animals. I love the elements of humor when I am reading this. It really reminds me of my sister who is working in an animal hospital in Norwood Park.

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  3. Oh this breaks my heart, I hope it's not in a lot of pain. This also makes me want to take my cat to an animal clinic in Toronto and get everything checked out.

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  4. I just learned something new. Thanks for sharing, i dont think my cat has that, but ill look for it in the future. Thanks for putting that up, im trying to avoid taking my cat to the animal hospital in Mechanicsburg PA. But i know if i will they will fix my cat right up.

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