DISEASES CAUSED BY THE TARTAR IN DOGS

Many proprietors worry about the possibility of your dogs they have decays. The one that most of them doesn't know is that the dogs rarely present this disease that is so common in the human being. Actually the dental problem more common of the domestic animals (dogs and cats) it is the periodontopatia, in other words, a disease that attacks the system of sustentation of the tooth.

Usually, the whole animal contains in your mouth a bacterial flora. These bacterias adhere to the teeth forming the bacterial plate that little by little she mineralize forming the tartar plates that with certainty all could already observe. Some animals present tartar more or less depending on your age, diet and mainly of your answer imunologic. It is worth to the feather to point out that encourage of small load like Yorshire and Pinscher they possess the same number of teeth (42 in the adult) that a Dogue Alemão; in spite of them to be very smaller, the number of teeth seems to be too much for such a small mouth, facilitating a larger accumulation of tartar.

This accumulation generates a favorable atmosphere for the exacerbated development of the oral bacterias. As the number of these it increases a lot, the number of toxicant substances produced by your metabolism it also grows in the same proportion and then they appear Periodontopatias: Gengivit and Periodontit.

In the gengivite there is only compromising of the gums that become red and swollen and they can bleed to the touch. This apprenticeship is reversible and if the animal makes a cleaning of your tartar teeth they will be clean and the gum will come back to the normal. Already when they begin to appear infections gengivais with pus formation, desmineralização of the bone that sustains the tooth (the root of the tooth is apparent) and retração or disordered growth of the gum (hiperplasia gengival), the periodontite is characterized. This apprenticeship is irreversible and even after the treatment the animal will be with the roots of the teeth exposed and with the reserved gum.

The sign more common of the periodontite it is the bad breath. The fermentation caused by the bacterias it can together or not with the pus presence to cause a very strong and unpleasant scent that will be noticed soon by the proprietor. Depending on the apprenticeship of the disease the animal can be feeling pain and with that he/she can stop feeding, to play, to gnaw your bones and to be unhappy in a song of the house.

The one that few people know is that the largest danger of the periodontopatias is not the loss of the teeth or the development of local infections. The bacterias that are in the mouth of the animal are not alone for there. These fall in the sanguine current and through her they are mischievous for all the organs of the animal. The most affected organs are: heart, kidneys and liver and also the articulations. If by chance the animal already has a previous lesion in some of these places, the probability of installation of the bacterias close to them it is very big. These bact. they cause small inflammations in the capillary of the visceras that in the course of time form an enormous inflammation.

For these reasons, as soon as you have a chance, verify the mouth of your cão/gato. It doesn't yield to the temptation of waiting a little more to accumulate more tartar and later you to order to do the cleaning. The more your time friend to be with those plates in the mouth, more bacterias will be bombarding " your internal organs. Studies that point the bacterias of the tartar already exist as the most frequent accelerating of the renal and heart inadequacy in dogs.

The treatment is simple and fast: Tartarectomia, in other words, tartar cleaning. Always verify if the professional that will make the cleaning it possesses the material necessary odonto. A cleaning done to thick way, eliminating the larger plates will just do only that you feel better but it will be of little usefulness for the animal. The largest concentration of the bacterias is in the furrow gengival (that place where the dental thread disappears among the teeth) that needs to be curetted manually with special instruments. And anything of holding the animal to the force to do the cleaning. The intruments be used her they are sharp and some pointed ones and the areas be curetted her they are of difficult access. Imagine how your last tartar cleaning was in the dentist and imagine the Veterinarian he/she will get to do your dog to be seat with the open mouth, feeling the instruments working inside of the mouth and not to suffocate with that water all of the ultrassom.

The safest tartarectomia and well done he/she needs the support of an anesthesia. Even the dogs with heart problems have been submitted to the this cleaning by it anesthetizes volatile (the drug is breathed and not injected in the animal) after they be medicated properly by your Veterinarians Cardiologics because their risk is at the mercy of the oral bacterias it is larger than of if they submit to the this anesthesia.

Very important it is also the prophylaxis work to be initiate after the cleaning. Talk with your Veterinarian for us to reach the conclusion of which is the method that is more appropriate for your routine. Who has 5 Rottweillers super aggressive it won't brush their teeth a week never three times. But is it necessary same to brush dog tooth? If you want to delay the accumulation of the tartar in the teeth of your animal, it is. The only way holds of removing the bacterial plate of the teeth it is the attrition caused by the toothbrush. It was not still invented more efficient. The ideal is that after the cleaning you get to brush the teeths  of your dog/cat at least three times in the week and with soft brush and he/she grazes on canine. Never use cream dental human, these it contains soaps that make that whole foam and that healthy very noxious to the stomach of the animals. Or did you think your dog will rinse the mouth with water and to spit?

In the next article I will order larger details on the need of the escovação and a daily program for you to accustom your animal to leave and to like of brushing the teeth.

The veterinary doctor's collaboration Dra. Claudia Youle of DentalVet - specialized in treatments odontológics.

The pictures published in this article they were removed by the author of the book " the color Atlas of Veterinary Dentistry & Oral Surgery " of Peter Kertesz Publisher Wolfe and of the book " Small Animal Dentistry " of Harvey and Emily.