Dental X-Ray Procedures for Cats

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Hi this is Dr. Greg McDonald for Expert Village.com. and we are going to talk a little about dental x-rays in your cat. This is a dental x-ray machine and we are going to talk a little bit about why we use it and how we use it. This is the machine here and I’ll come over here and show you this little button that we use to take it. We know that the animals have to be under anesthesia in order to get their Denis tries. This is the head and the animal would be under anesthesia right here and we move this down some so that we get the proper angle that we are going to use to take the x-ray. We step back over here and push this button and then the x-rays are taken and then we develop the x-rays in a special tank of fluids that we get instant results from our x-rays and we can look at it while the animal is still under anesthesia. It is always important to x-ray any tooth that has excessive exposure of the gums so that you can the roots are exposed. It is really important to go ahead and get an x-ray of that because there may be some disease that is deeper down in the roots that you can see. It is also important for any tooth that is loose or questionable if it is broken or has an open root canal. All those teeth need to be x-rayed to be sure that they are not causing the animal any pain and that they may be removed or repaired while they are under anesthesia. I just want to walk over here and show you what a dental x-ray looks like after it is done. We have this film viewer over here and this is one of the x-rays that we have taken of an animal’s teeth so that we can tell if there is any damage to the root canal. Again, dental x-rays are very important when you have any kind of pathology that you see in the mouth that is questionable. We don’t have x-ray eyes. We can’t tell what the roots look like without doing the x-ray and so when we try and do everything as completely as possible because we don’t want to put animals under anesthesia any more than we have to. We take the x-rays while they are in for their dental prophey if it is necessary and then we know the answers.

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