Question 2: What is the main problem you see in equine dental cases?
Answer: It is the same thing over and over again: it's the sharp teeth and removing those sharp points on the teeth and making the horse's mouth feel comfortable again. I guess the biggest problem I see is a lot of trainers don't understand the importance of dentistry or they have tried dentistry before and it didn't help so they neglect it.
The first thing a lot of the trainers I work for do is address hooves, saddle, aches/pains/joints and teeth. They try to get all of the basics done, and just by doing those things, the horse suddenly goes better and they look like geniuses and they haven't even started training. They know that they can't conduct an orchestra if all of the instruments are out of tune. The teeth are that important in getting cooperation from your horse.
Equine dentistry is a difficult job to. It isn't something you can learn overnight. To summarize, the biggest problems I see are 1) neglect and 2) previous bad work done. All other problems - dental caries, sinus infection, overgrown tooth, etc. - are really minor. Probably 98% of my cases (out of 40,000) are float cases.
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