Checklist for Your Vet
A quality equine dental vet will easily meet the following criteria.
These are the questions you should ask any person treating your horses.
Does your dental care provider:
- Provide your horse with pain relief?
- Use a dental speculum (gag)?
- Clean the mouth before examining?
- Use a mirror and probe to perform a detailed examination of the mouth?
- Use a light to examine the mouth?
- Provide you a detailed written record of findings?
- Clean and disinfect instruments?
Is your dental care provider:
- insured?
- licensed?
- regulated?
- able to perform procedures like X-rays?
- able to treat infection?
- up-to-date with the latest techniques and equipment?