Dental Flashcards
List equipment for an equine dental exam
Sedation
Gloves
Headtorch
Speculum
Mirror
Dental syringe
Dental chart
Headstand
Helmet
What are you looking for on incisors
Alignment
Missing teeth
Diastema
Food impactions fracture
What do you look for in the oral exam
Mucosal inflammation/ulceration
Sharp points
Alignment
Infundibular/peripheral caries
Diastema
Missing teeth
Fractures
What can retained deciduous teeth cause (incisors)
Gaps between adult teeth
What does EOTRH stand for
Equine odontoclastic tooth resorption hypercementosis
How many deciduous caps to horses shed
12
What are diastema
Abnormal gaps between teeth
What are the two types of carie
Infundibular and peripheral
Where is an infundibular carie
Centre of upper cheek teeth - treatment involves filling
What view is used to image maxillary incisors
Dorso-ventral
What view is used to image mandibular incisors
Ventro-dorsal
What view is used to image cheek teeth
Latero-lateral and dorso-ventral
What view is used to image maxillary cheek teeth
Latero30°dorsal-lateroventral oblique
What view is used to image mandibular cheek teeth
Latero45°ventral-laterodorsal oblique
What view is used to image temporomandibular joint
Rostro35°lateral50°ventral-caudidorsal oblique
What is polydontia
Too many teeth
What is oligodontia
Too few teeth
What is prognathia
Parrot mouth
Brachygnathia
Sow mouth
Which horses are prone to diastemata
Warmbloods and senile
What do you have to do for sinoscopy
Traffine
How fast do horses teeth erupt
2-5mm a year
Where do horses teeth get sharp
Buccal aspect of maxillary and Lingual aspect of mandibular
Which wolf teeth should be removed
Large, unerupted, abnormally positioned, fractured/loose or unilateral
Why does over eruption occur
Missing tooth loosing
When does galvaynes groove occur
Starts at 9 reaches occlusal surface around 15
How does the shape of the corner incisor change with age
<10 wider than long
10 square
>10 longer than wide
