Imagine for a minute that you have never brushed your teeth, not even once in all your life. Pretty gross thought isn’t it. Instead of pearly white teeth, you’d have yellow and brown muck all over them right. You were just imagining this, for your dog, it is their mouth right now!
Not many people brush their dogs teeth. It’s just not something that we do for our dogs. They eat just like we do. Many dogs eat the same foods we eat, but we don’t brush their teeth, ever. The only time we concern ourselves with our dogs teeth is when it begins to smell! And what an aweful odor it can be!
At The Fresh Pet Parlor your cleaning your dogs teeth are just as important as cleaning their body, ears and bum. We have had great success cleaning the plaque and tartar off of our canine clients teeth!
When we groom a dog they will have their teeth brushed, as long as they will accept it. They may not “like” it but if they will “accept” it we do our best to brush them.
When the build-up is thick, like on the puppers below, it’s a process removing the build up. We begin by brushing their teeth at every groom job with an All In One plaque reducing toothpaste just for dogs. We will ask the pet parent to use drops in their water to help reduce the plaque or provide plaque reducing bones for the dog to chew on.
After two, sometimes three groom jobs, with their teeth brushed, and whatever the pet parent can supply, the plaque, or sometimes tartar, has become weak. We are able to pick it off to reveal a pearly white tooth underneath!
There are some situations we can’t do anything. When the build-up is so bad the tooth has become loose we can’t pick it off or the tooth could come out. Or when the build-up has surpassed the gum line and is infecting the gums. These situations require a veterinarians expertise to save the tooth if possible or pull them out.
Your puppers need their teeth all their life just like you do! There are no such thing as doggy dentures yet! Let’s help them keep what they have clean!
These teeth had significant build-up but we got to them in time and saved the teeth!!
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From Clean Teeth to a Strong Heart. Brushing prevents bacteria from entering the bloodstream and damaging heart valves, monitoring the breath helps you catch Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) early—before it becomes an emergency. Read about putting the Sleeping Respiration Rate (SRR) into action can help your senior dog here.