A dental procedure can vary quite a bit. It usually takes 30 to 45 minutes to get anesthesia, imaging, and cleaning done....
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Owners always ask me, "Dr....
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We can do imaging under anesthesia. So we can't do internal x-rays or 3-D imaging without anesthesia....
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Yes, your cat has to be intubated. When we clean the teeth, we use an ultrasonic cleaner....
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At a minimum, your cat’s teeth should be examined once a year. We examine a cat's mouth and check the teeth every time the cat comes to see us....
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General anesthesia is very scary for us, but we do it very routinely. We know that monitoring is part of the safety of general anesthesia....
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The simple answer is yes....
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With extractions, we actually remove a tooth....
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Most of the time a follow-up appointment is required....
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It’s a reasonable question because you and I can open up and say, “Ahhh,” and let the dentist clean our teeth. Cats can’t do that....
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One of my other certifications is pain management....
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Many times, we give pain medication before surgery, during surgery, and after surgery. And that would come in the form of injections....
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We have that listed on our website, but we also require the basic vaccines, the core vaccines for cats, which are rabies, and the kitty distemper, ...
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We typically see the peak effects of the acupuncture treatment around day three post-treatment....
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They sure can. That could be if they're left at home or in the boarding facility....
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To be quite honest, we're looking for anything abnormal....
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Those are normal behaviors in cats....
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I would make an appointment with the vet or at least call them because there are a lot of things that cats can do that might not seem like a proble...
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That's a tricky question to answer. I wish I could ask them....
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Yeah, we use medicine all the time for cancers, and we use surgery all the time, too. Again, it just depends on the type of cancer.
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