Don Hoover's Dental Blog

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• Piedmont gets a new home (and no teeth)
  
  
  Piedmont is a lovey, very friendly adult kitty that had spent the last 2 years at the Durham APS shelter waiting to be adopted.  She had all the qualities of a perfect...
  
  
• Deaca gets a filling
  
  
  This is Deaca (can you guess which ACC team her owner's cheer for?).  She is an extremely energenic and friendly one year old Standard Poodle.  She presented yesterday for treatment of an...
  
  
• I love boxer dogs!
  I really love boxers. I seem to see a lot of them in my practice.  It may be because one of my clients travels the Carolinas rescuing boxers that find their way into shelters.  He takes them home and works...
  
  
• Classic tooth resorption in a kitty
  
  
  Allie is a very sweet kitty that was presented for regular professional dental care.  She had some very classic tooth resorption.
  
  First a little background information about tooth resorption (TR) in cats. ...
  
  
• Root canal therapy
  I do feel a little sorry for the endodontists of the world because just the mention of the phrase "root canal" makes people unhappy. ( I know it did for me and that was long before I even knew what a root...