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Equine dentistry question

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Tue, 04 Mar 1997 15:24:27 -0500 (EST)

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A local equine dentist took a look at an 18 year old Arab mare of mine and
pronounced that she needs "incisor reduction", which entails grinding down the
surfaces of her non-molar teeth- the front ones. He said he would have to take
it down just about to the root canal! This sounds wacky to me but I have never
used an equine dentist before so I may just be ignorant. He said that the
surfaces of her molars are not meeting correctly because he front teeth are
too long. He also mentioned rounding off the front edges of her first molar so
the bit would lay better? She is in excellent flesh and does not drop her food.She has routine
tooth maintenance once or twice a year, done by a vet. Please enlighten me.
Thanks -Amy

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