How to Find Tartar on your Dog's Teeth

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Summary: Tips on tartar buildup on dogs' teeth and how to find it in this free online video series.

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Elise McMahon Elise McMahon has a Ph.D. in animal behavior, and has been working with both domestic and wild dogs since the early 1990s. She began studying domestic dogs in... read more

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How to Find Tartar on your Dog's Teeth

Hi this is Elise McMahon for Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about canine dental care. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at www.canineheadstart.com. So in this short clip we are going to be talking about tartar. What it is and how to find it on your dog. You probably know it from going to the dentist yourself humans get tartar buildup on their teeth and we go to the dentist once every six months and get it all cleaned off. Well dogs don’t go to the dentist once every six months. Some of them don’t go at all. Some of them don’t need to go. But how will you know if your dog needs to go and get his teeth cleaned? We have already gone through how to teach your dog how to get a dental exam and we’ve done a dental exam. So now we are going to show you what tartar looks like on the teeth, how to identify and where you are usually going to be finding it. I am going to use this little girl here. Take a look at her canines; usually the first place to look. You can see here is a nice white tooth and as we get up towards the gum you can see discoloration. You can also see along the gum line that it is a little bit dark. If you look at one of the incisors here you don’t see any tartar we also see a little bit of darkness on the gum line. This is tartar and that needs to come off. Let’s look at her front teeth. Very nice. And the other side again on a canine right here we are seeing some tartar buildup. Not so much on the lower ones but on the upper ones. So that is something that needs some attention.