Removing tartar of your pet’s teeth without anaesthesia does not improve your pet’s oral health.
Are you having difficulties brushing your pet’s teeth? How do you think anaesthesia free dental cleaning is performed? Unfortunately, our pets do not sit still and open their mouths to have their mouth examined and their teeth cleaned. Anaesthesia free dental cleaning requires your pet to be physically restrained and their mouth forced open to allow the visible tartar to be scraped from their teeth. They will struggle, and this can be very stressful and painful for your pet.
As part of their services, groomers and some veterinarians offer anaesthesia free dental cleaning. However, they are not trained to detect and understand the principles of dental disease. They can often cause more harm than good. Would you have your teeth cleaned at you hairdresser?
When scaling teeth under anaesthesia free dental cleaning, tartar is scraped off with a metal instrument from the tooth’s surface. This causes grooves on the tooth surface and allows bacteria to re-attach to the tooth. It is not possible to smooth out the surface without final polishing, which the practitioners do not do. The teeth might look clean, but they are not necessarily healthy.
Periodontal disease exists under the gum tissue and is invisible to our eyes. When tartar builds up on the tooth there is also tartar building up under the gum line along the roots of the tooth.
What you need to understand is that the infection is not cleaned from under the gum and will continue to destroy bone and attachment around the tooth. This is painful for your animal.
Scaling and polishing under the gum line are the most important procedure to slow periodontal disease down. This can be only done with a proper dental scaling and polishing under anaesthesia. It is not possible to do this under an anaesthesia free dental cleaning.
Anaesthesia free dental cleaning has no advantage to your pet’s oral health and does not prevent periodontal disease. It does not identify and treat painful white teeth, and the silent suffering of your pet will continue with whiter “clean” teeth.
Whiter teeth do not mean healthier teeth.
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