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Re: [RC] [RC] Equine Dentist - Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVMIt pains me terribly to want to disagree with anything Susan would write or suggest, but I'd like to propose to her a slight amendment to her statement Good heavens, you're not disagreeing, you're discussing. Always a good thing. :-)) Is there a little wiggle room in there to say that if they don't have a DVM after their name that they have been recommended by your DVM? <snip>> The equine dentist (John Fortcamp) who floated my mare's teeth last spring was recommended by *both* large animal vets I use. He works in their clinics and, while he does the tranq'ing, it's under the vets supervision. That seems reasonable to me. Well-trained vet techs can do teeth cleaning on small animals under veterinary supervision, although they're still not allowed to do extractions and so on. It's not that floating teeth itself is a deep and mysterious skill that only a DVM can do. What bothers me is that at least in my very limited experience, the 'dentist's are arbitrarily using and administering some very powerful sedation without sufficient knowledge of the potential adverse effects on cardiac output and GI motility, and without the ability to fix the problem if things start going south. Anyway, no, I don't have a problem with someone essentially acting as a tech while working with a safety net. I just object to someone acting as a vet without the training, without even the suggestion of licensure that a practicing vet has to have, and without any suggestion of a safety net for the dentist, the horse, or the owner. Susan G SUSAN E. GARLINGHOUSE, DVM, MS Michael S. Peralez, DVM & Associates 1005 North Santa Anita Drive Arcadia, California 91006 (626) 446-8911 http://www.shady-acres.com/susan ============================================================ If you treat an Arab like a Thoroughbred, it will behave like a Quarter horse. ~ Libby Llop ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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