Nutrition: Dental Visit Case Study Elegance CF 2001gm

The equine dentist I have been using for the past 4 years, Ron (he was recommended by my previous dentist, Larry, when he retired), visited Elegance yesterday October 9, 2015.  He palpated her entire jaw line on both sides, checked how much chewing motion she had, and checked her TMJ area before he looked inside her mouth. And what he found when he did made me gasp as I looked over his shoulder.  Her left upper side molars were  worn at about a 45 degree angle from the inside edge of the tooth  to the outside edge of the tooth. You can see all the hay packed between her molars and her cheek because she can’t move her jaw cleanly to the left without running into those upper teeth. She lacks a level chewing surface so she gets very little masticated correctly and she gives up eating sooner than a normal horse because of the pain associated with eating.  Needless to say the other molars, both lower left and right side upper and lower are affected. So you know what a normal left side molar area should look like here is the same picture of Fin DeSiecle CF 1999cm taken…