Yesterday Dazzi went to the white coats for to have her teeth cleaned and have a lump on her foot removed and two of those wart like lumps removed from her body. I ran into my neighbor at the store the other day and she was telling me their 8 year old Bailey and gone in and had to have 7 teeth removed and now had to have a dental food and her teeth cleaned every 6 month from now on. That started me worrying because the older vet who sometimes filled in for our regular vet said she needed to have her teeth cleaned last fall but it got pushed to the back burner with Snoopy's troubles. So I took her in on Thursday so they could look at her teeth and the lump on her foot. Thank God I did. He said she had a tooth fractured and the root was exposed which makes it painful. She also had two abcesses on the big teeth towards the back which would also need pulled. So going in we knew that 3 teeth had to be pulled. He said there are two on either side behind those big ones that you can't see until they are under. Fortunately he had a cancellation on Friday and since I am off Fridays it was great to be able to get her in so quickly.
Again thank God nothing was wrong with those back teeth. It still cost a pretty penny to get all the work done. My vet is doing some remodeling of his house - I think I am paying for it (Christy too as she has had all 3 of hers teeth cleaned and Dakota had a couple of lumps removed.) None of the lumps looked cancerous or were cancerous.
I am partially sharing this because I never really gave much thought to her teeth being that bad - at the time the other vet said something she just had a litle gingevitis. Her next vet vist wouldn't be till next fall so who knows how much worst it would have been by then.
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