Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – An Introduction
This subject is divided into sections organized by teeth (incisors, cheek teeth, canines), the oral cavity and the skull pertaining to the teeth. Th…
Category: Teeth & oral cavity
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Canine Calculus
Calculus is the accumulation of saliva and food debris that hardens and forms a crust on a tooth. Here it is formed on the canines of some male horse…
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Canine Debris
Calculus on canines are usually uniform, but in some horses, more feed becomes entrapped in the crusty material.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Canine Decay And EOTRH
Canines in some older horses lose their integrity and decay. This is often associated with EOTRH but can also be from trauma.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Canine Fractures
These teeth of male horses sometimes are placed against something harder, such as a steel stall bar. The result is fracture of the canine.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Canines In Female Horses
Canines are found in almost every male horse (stallions and geldings) but are rare in female horses.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Canines Just Erupting
Canine teeth of male horses (and occasionally females) can erupt anytime, but most commonly from before birth to 3 years of age.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Cheek Teeth Calculus
Some horses accumulate saliva and feed in the sides of their cheeks that turns to hard calculus on the cheek sides of the first 1 to 3 cheek teeth.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Cheek Teeth Cap Remnants
Deciduous teeth ("Caps") of young horses attach themselves to the underlying permanent tooth with tips of tooth. These often break off and remain bet…
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Cheek Teeth Caps
The 12 premolar cheek teeth have precursor deciduous teeth (caps). The 12 molar cheek teeth do not have deciduous teeth.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Cheek Teeth Displaced
Cheek teeth when not aligned with the rest of the teeth in the arcade are called displaced.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Cheek Teeth End Stage
Cheek teeth have a finite lifespan and when they run out of reserve crown, there is nothing left to hold them in. These are end stage teeth.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Cheek Teeth Eruption Bumps
When the permanent premolar cheek teeth push into position, they often cause lumps that appear on the face and lower jaw. These are normal and are no…
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Cheek Teeth Extractions
On occasion, the cheek teeth of horses need to be extracted, though in my practice, it is extremely rare.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Cheek Teeth Foreign Objects
Foreign objects are usually organic (hay and other feed) that get stuck between the cheek teeth when an unusual gap exists.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Cheek Teeth Fractures
Cheek teeth fractures are very common and are usually non-events in the horse's life.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Cheek Teeth Hooks
Hooks are the over-eruption of a tooth and are seen when there is no opposition in chewing.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Cheek Teeth Waves
An uneven occlusal surface along the arcade of cheek teeth is commonly called a wave. Some feel that the unevenness needs to be leveled however in my…
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Chewing Motion
The chewing motion is unique to each horse and is affected by oral pain.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Dental Speculum Injury
The use of the speculum is common in equine dentistry. There are reports of damage to the horse caused by them and this is one of those cases.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Flabby Cheeks Of The Oral Cavity
Flabby Cheeks is the description of excessive tissue that lays in front of the first lower cheek teeth of horses. It is one of the three major reason…
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Foreign Objects In The Oral Cavity
Anything can get stuck in the mouth - and when you have no fingers.....
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Abnormalities
Incisors are the nipper teeth and anything that is not normal is easily seen.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Absence
The nipper teeth can be missing from 1) never being there, 2) the cap is gone and the permanent tooth has not erupted yet, 3) trauma, and 4) extractio…
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Calculus
Accumulation of saliva with feed is very common on the canines but not that common on incisors.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Cap Extractions
Some deciduous incisors hang on longer than they should.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Cap Remnants
Some deciduous incisors leave remnants between the gum and the permanent incisor.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Caps
All incisors have a precursor deciduous tooth that is displaced and ejected by the erupting permanent tooth below it.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Damage
Damage is common to the incisors because one of the primary purposes of these teeth is defense.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Decay And EOTRH
Incisors usually do not decay except after trauma or if EOTRH is affecting the horse.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Relaxed Space
When a horse is relaxed, their incisors are kept apart as seen in these photos. On average a horse chews 25,000 times a day. If each chew takes 1 se…
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Supernumerary Teeth
Supernumerary incisors means there are more incisor teeth than should be there (more than 12 permanent incisors).
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Wear
The primary wearing factor of the incisors, including length and pattern of wear, is the movement of the tongue over the occlusal surfaces. This is c…
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisor Trauma
These picture show trauma of an incisor from about 2 years earlier and the removal of the damaged tooth.
Horse Neoplastic Diseases – Incisor Tumors
This was thought to be a benign tumor (abnormal growth) of an incisor. It was extracted and shown to be a deciduous incisor that was malformed (the d…
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Incisors – A Question From An Owner
A YouTube visitor asks me several questions about incisors and theories of equine dentistry.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Large Canines
Canines are used as weapons and some horses have very big canines.
Horse Neoplastic Diseases – Neoplasia In The Oral Cavity
Hyperplasia means more growth than is norma.
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Oral Cavity Growths
On occasion, a growth occurs within the mouth that is benign and just a passing observation. Rarely do they affect the horse unlest they enlarge and …
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Oral Cavity Trauma
Whenever trauma occurs inside the mouth of the horse, the reaction from the horse can be anywhere from nothing at all to drooling and an inability to …
Horse Teeth And Oral Cavity – Parrot Mouth
Parrot mouth only affects the relationship of the incisors to each other where the upper incisors are more forward than the lower incisors and complet…
