Aging The Horse By The Teeth – Podcast #070
Several years ago, I asked owners with horses of verified age (papers or lip tattoos) to allow me to photograph the incisors. I shot the left and righ…
Category: Teeth and Oral Cavity System Topics
Canine Debris
Calculus on canines are usually uniform, but in some horses, more feed becomes entrapped in the crusty material.
Canine Decay And EOTRH
Canines in some older horses lose their integrity and decay. This is often associated with EOTRH but can also be from trauma.
Canine Fractures
These teeth of male horses sometimes are placed against something harder, such as a steel stall bar. The result is fracture of the canine.
Canine Tartar
Calculus is the accumulation of saliva and food debris that hardens and forms a crust on a tooth. Here it is formed on the canines of some male horse…
Canines In Female Horses
Canines are found in almost every male horse (stallions and geldings) but are rare in female horses.
Canines Just Erupting
Canine teeth of male horses (and occasionally females) can erupt anytime, but most commonly from before birth to 3 years of age.
Cavities In Horse Teeth And More – Podcast #047
I go over some of the recent articles showing up in the magazines and news feeds for horse owners discussing 1) cavities in the cheek teeth of horses …
Cheek Teeth Calculus
Some horses accumulate saliva and feed in the sides of their cheeks that turns to hard calculus on the cheek sides of the first 1 to 3 cheek teeth.
Cheek Teeth Cap Remnants
Deciduous teeth ("Caps") of young horses attach themselves to the underlying permanent tooth with tips of tooth. These often break off and remain bet…
Cheek Teeth Caps
The 12 premolar cheek teeth have precursor deciduous teeth (caps). The 12 molar cheek teeth do not have deciduous teeth.
Cheek Teeth Displaced
Cheek teeth when not aligned with the rest of the teeth in the arcade are called displaced.
Cheek Teeth End Stage
Cheek teeth have a finite lifespan and when they run out of reserve crown, there is nothing left to hold them in. These are end stage teeth.
Cheek Teeth Eruption Bumps
When the permanent premolar cheek teeth push into position, they often cause lumps that appear on the face and lower jaw. These are normal and are no…
Cheek Teeth Extractions
On occasion, the cheek teeth of horses need to be extracted, though in my practice, it is extremely rare.
Cheek Teeth Foreign Objects
Foreign objects are usually organic (hay and other feed) that get stuck between the cheek teeth when an unusual gap exists.
Cheek Teeth Fractures
Cheek teeth fractures are very common and are usually non-events in the horse's life.
Cheek Teeth Hooks
Hooks are the over-eruption of a tooth and are seen when there is no opposition in chewing.
Cheek Teeth Waves
An uneven occlusal surface along the arcade of cheek teeth is commonly called a wave. Some feel that the unevenness needs to be leveled however in my…
Dental Speculum Injury
The use of the speculum is common in equine dentistry. There are reports of damage to the horse caused by them and this is one of those cases.
EOTRH – The Disease Affecting The Incisor Teeth Of Horses – Rounds With Doc T
Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis (EOTRH) is a new disease of horses affecting the health of all horses’ incisors and canine…
Equine Dentistry Seen Through 75,000 Floats – Rounds With Doc T
I have floated the teeth of horses since 1983, worked on over 75,000 horse mouths and still am floating teeth every day. I have some thoughts, and man…
Flabby Cheeks Of The Oral Cavity
Flabby Cheeks is the description of excessive tissue that lays in front of the first lower cheek teeth of horses. It is one of the three major reason…
Foreign Objects In The Oral Cavity
Anything can get stuck in the mouth - and when you have no fingers.....
Incisor Absence
The nipper teeth can be missing from 1) never being there, 2) the cap is gone and the permanent tooth has not erupted yet, 3) trauma, and 4) extractio…
Incisor Calculus
Accumulation of saliva with feed is very common on the canines but not that common on incisors.
Incisor Cap Remnants
Some deciduous incisors leave remnants between the gum and the permanent incisor.
Incisor Caps
All incisors have a precursor deciduous tooth that is displaced and ejected by the erupting permanent tooth below it.
Incisor Damage
Damage is common to the incisors because one of the primary purposes of these teeth is defense.
Incisor Decay And EOTRH
Incisors usually do not decay except after trauma or if EOTRH is affecting the horse.
Incisor Relaxed Space
When a horse is relaxed, their incisors are kept apart as seen in these photos. On average a horse chews 25,000 times a day. If each chew takes 1 se…
Incisor Supernumerary Teeth
Supernumerary incisors means there are more incisor teeth than should be there (more than 12 permanent incisors).
Incisor Trauma
These picture show trauma of an incisor from about 2 years earlier and the removal of the damaged tooth.
Incisor Tumors
This was thought to be a benign tumor (abnormal growth) of an incisor. It was extracted and shown to be a deciduous incisor that was malformed (the d…
Incisor Wear
The primary wearing factor of the incisors, including length and pattern of wear, is the movement of the tongue over the occlusal surfaces. This is c…
Incisors – A Question From An Owner (blog)
A YouTube visitor asks me several questions about incisors and theories of equine dentistry.
Oral Cavity Growths
On occasion, a growth occurs within the mouth that is benign and just a passing observation. Rarely do they affect the horse unlest they enlarge and …