Equine Dentistry- The Incisor Reduction
Posted by Geoff Tucker on Mon, Jul 06, 2009
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The removal of material from the front teeth of a horse (nippers, incisors) has been recently embraced by modern equine dentists. Horses have died from this procedure. There is no basis in good science for performing incisor reduction and until someone proves to me the necessity for it being done, I will not do it. The veterinary profession has moved away from routinely performing this procedure (AAEP and BEVA - both from a seminar at their meetings in 2003).
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