Clean Teeth

[Catlady711]

I dunno where the rest of you guys live, but everything is expensive over in the Bay. The place I work at charges an average of $300-$500 for Grade A and B teeth. Realllyyy nasty teeth can easily go $700 what with extractions and extended amount of anesthesia plus fluids and pain/antibiotic injections and all that good stuff.

The cheapest you can go for a dental ONLY is probably $300. The only dental I know that is only $80 is feline dentals. Giselle's estimate was about $400 for the dental alone, but the bloodwork and exam costed us about $100. And I don't even want to know how much extractions cost...

WOW!!!!

Around here that would be utter highway robbery and then some!!! Heck around here for those prices you could have a couple large dogs spayed with all the vaccinations and probably some heartworm medication!!!!

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

Perhaps I worded it wrong. I wasn't meaning to say that no dog should ever have their teeth professionally cleaned, as I don't feel that way. Most of the dogs I personally know have never had to have their teeth cleaned though. Ultimately it's up to the owner and the individual dog's needs, of course.

[ratdogg]

erm, so i KNOW this isn't the greatest method, but my dog chews up sticks and my bestfriend said that chewing the sticks probably helps keep her teeth beautiful....lets just hope she never gets a blockage

[Giselle]

Yeah, no kidding. Whatever you do, never move into the Bay Area. The vets will drain you dry.

You wanna know how much spays cost? I got Ivy done for $25 through a low-cost program. The clinic we went to tried tacking on $400 worth of extras. I declined everything, but she needed two deciduous teeth taken out. That racked my bill up to $150-ish. Woot for baby teeth..