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Presentations: You are the teacher!
- Dr. Chris Blevins
Presentations
- 3 main bullet points / slide
- Read and follow
– Nothing less than 20 pt font size – Font type is easy to read
- Use pictures
Presentations: You are the teacher! Dr. Chris Blevins Equine Field - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Presentations: You are the teacher! Dr. Chris Blevins Equine Field - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Presentations: You are the teacher! Dr. Chris Blevins Equine Field Service Clinician Presentations 3 main bullet points / slide Read and follow Nothing less than 20 pt font size Font type is easy to read Use pictures
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Presentations
- Educate/Advertise
- Interact
- Interesting topics
– For you – For audience
- KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE!!!!!!
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Presentation
- Following slides
– Presentation I gave at Purina “Horse Owner Workshop” – Informal: stop and ask questions
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Old age is not a disease, but their teeth…..?
- Dr. Chris Blevins
Equine Field Service KSU-VHC
http://us.123rf.com
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Information
- Geriatric horses
– >15-20 years old – 273,600 geriatric horses in the U.S.
- USDA: APHIS 2005
– Geriatric horses in vet clinics
- 2.2% to 12.5% in a 10 year span (2003)
– Veterinarians provided routine dental care for 49% of horses ≥ 20 years of age
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Information
– “Old Billy” black Shire in England
- Oldest horse recorded
- 62 years old when died
– “Cooper” retired police horse in Missouri
- 51 years old
– “Scribbles” Welsh Pony in Wales UK
- 51 years old
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Information
- “Charlie Brown”
– 27 year paint horse gelding – Taught over 1200 veterinary students at KSU
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Anatomy and Physiology
- Chew pattern affected by feed
– More processed feed stuff = More sharp points
- Teeth continue to erupt from the gum line
– Cheek teeth wear out by 25-30 years of age – All teeth can also get small
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Examination
- Complete physical exam!
– Only 8% of geriatric horses seen for dentals had primary dental issues – Cushing disease, Heart murmurs, lameness/arthritis, laminitis, ect…..
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Examination
- History:
– Quidding/Eating abnormal – Dropping grain/processed feed
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Examination
- Proper Sedation
- Proper Equipment
– Oral Speculum – Light source – Dental mirror – Oral dosing syringe – Head stand/halter
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Examination
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Examination
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Treatment
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Treatment
- Incisor and Canine
Teeth
– Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercemetosis (EOTRH)
- Aged (>15 years old)
- Staged Extraction
Steszyk et al. 2008
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Treatment
- Cheek teeth-diastemata/periodontal dz
– Impaction of fibrous feed material – Dental Mirror or basket retractor to examine – Clinical signs: halitosis, quidding, buccal food packing, weight loss, and infections (bone and sinuses)
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Treatment
- Cheek teeth-diastemata/periodontal dz
– Oral exam: dental mirror, basket retractors – Tx: +/- Widening Interdental Spaces
- Diastema burr attachment
- Caution: damage tooth/teeth
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Treatment
- Cheek teeth-diastemata/periodontal dz
– Tx: Indirect treatments
- Dietary modifications
- Removal of Transverse Ridges
- Reducing Occlusal Pressure on Diastemata
- Extraction of Teeth
- Reduction of Overgrown Teeth
- Packing Diastemata with Plastic Impression Material
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Treatment
- Dietary Modification
– Processed Feed Stuff
- Pellet (complete feeds)
- Alfalfa cubes
- Chopped hay
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Computerized Dental Charting
Edward T. Earley, DVM; AAEP
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Computerized Dental Charting
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Chris Blevins, DVM (785)-532-5700 www.vet.ksu.edu