Equine Dental Surgery Flashcards
Common History:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
- Weight Loss
- Constipation
- Poor performance
- Head shaking
- Lameness
Where do enamel points form?
Buccal edge of maxillary teeth and lingual edge of mandibular teeth
laceration on tongue are due to enamel points formed in what location?
lingual edge of mandibular teeth
Lacerations on cheek are due to enamal points formed in what location?
Buccal edge of maxillary teeth
Correct floating technique?
in-and-out rasping motion
Hook vs Ramp
Hook = cranial or rostral edge of the second pre-molar
Ramp - caudal edge of the third molar
How to remove hooks?
How to remove ramps?
Float
Racheted tooth cutters (cause you cant see them well)
Wolf teeth are (easy/difficult) to remove?
easy
How to remove wolf teeth?
Sedate, local infiltration of the area, periosteal elevator them while removing entire root
What muscle is atrophied in “sheer mouth”?
Massester
What disease is characterized as an exaggerated form of enamel points? Which teeth are affected?
Sheer mouth.
Maxillary teeth become scissors
How to treat Sheer mouth?
Grind a bit off, wait, and than do it again 3 weeks later. This disease is a long time in development, so you dont want to rasp it all off in one sitting
Bumps on out the cheek and jaw areas of a foal are most likely due to what dental issue?
premolars caps that are on top of permanent teeth that have not come out
How do you remove an impact P3 cap that is preventing the permanent tooth from growing in?
Use a screw driver to pry them off
Two techniques for removal of cheek teeth:
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2.
- Standing Extraction
2. Repulsion under general anesthesia
Options for Repulsion of cheek teeth under general anesthesia:
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2.
3.
- Trephination
- Sinusotom (bone flap)
- Buccotomy
Instruments for standing tooth removal:
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2.
3.
4.
- Long handled molar forceps
- Molar cutters (tooth cutters)
- Fulcrum
- Tooth pick
Steps for standing tooth removal:
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5.
- Separate gingiva from tooth using gingival elevator to break down fibers
- Loosening tooth using molar forceps to loosen the tooth
- Side to side movement
- Extraction using fulcrum
- filled the alveolus with PMMA
T/F: After removing a tooth, you want to fill the socket with PMMA
F, you want to fill the alveolus, but don’t want to fill up the socket itself. The socket will fill up with granulation tissue on it’s own. We just want to stop feed from getting into the socket and impeding healing
Where do you place the trephine in regards to the tooth you want to remove?
Right over the root
Dentigerous cysts are a (congenital/aquired) disease?
congenital
Dentigerous cysts:
- Tx?
- Prognosis?
- complete surgical excision
2. excellent
Don’t forgot to put in a ____ during excision of a dentigerous cyst. Why?
Drain. You will have created dead space
