Storm's Getting A Dental Cleaning & Several Teeth Extracted Tomorrow

**mrspunkysmom** · 04-03-2012, 08:52 AM

Glad to hear Storm is doing well. He'll be back to normal soon. Both of my orange guys get regular dental cleanings.

**Taz_Zoee** · 04-03-2012, 10:37 AM

Glad to hear everything went smoothly and Storm is back home with you.

Silly Alani, you be nice to Storm!

**Catty1** · 04-03-2012, 11:01 AM

Oscar had 7 teeth pulled late last year due to FORL. 3 - 4 teeth had already resorbed. FORL stands for Feline Ododontal Resorption Lesion. It's not regular decay - it's a lesion that starts up and eats through the enamel, dentine and then into the root of the tooth. Oscar was on Metacam and antibiotics for a week...poor baby must have been in such pain, but the vet said I could have done nothing to prevent it.

Interestingly, the gingivitis and tartar were reported as "minimal".

I know Storm will be feeling much more comfy from now on. Healing kissies to Storm!

**krazyaboutkatz** · 04-03-2012, 12:44 PM

Thanks again everyone.

Storm's doing very well and he was very hungry this morning. I fed him a lot of canned food but he wanted his dry too. I soaked it in warm water and he ate almost all of it. He also took his medicines like a good boy.

He wanted to spend the night out with Alani & Blaze so now they're all friends again. Now he's resting on one of the cat beds on my bed. I know he feels so much better now.

I also asked what I could do to prevent the resorption from happening but the vet tech said that it just happens in some cats so I really can't prevent it. She did give me a website to look into that has more information to help cats teeth. Here's the website: www.vohc.org.