Dental Vet; Equine vet practice for dental health and surgery

Dental Vet; Equine vet practice for dental health and surgery The Dental Vet is a Veterinary practice providing equine dentistry and dental surgery. Dentistry is so much more than floating teeth!

For more info have a look at our FB services section or www.dentalvet.co.nz. A healthy mouth plays such a big part in the overall well-being of your equine partner. Their ability to do their job willingly and well, whether it be a pleasure horse or high-performance athlete depends on it. Being a fully qualified equine vet, you can rely on Marieke to keep your horses mouth in great shape. The pract

ice offers medical treatment, special dental procedures, X-rays and standing dental surgery. Check out www.dentalvet.co.nz

It was filling check up time!! Number of years on, all 6 fillings are in place, intact yet wearing down at the same rate...
10/10/2025

It was filling check up time!! Number of years on, all 6 fillings are in place, intact yet wearing down at the same rate of the tooth.

I apply a 'only if the hand is forced' attitude to placing restoratives in horse cheek teeth. Science is moving fast, vets can do some amazing stuff. But that does NOT mean I do these lightly. Welfare and Wallet (yours, not mine) come first.

This is human restorative material and placed very similarly to human fillings. It's just that these are about 4 to 8 cm (!) deep in a tooth I cannot place an instrument directly onto like in your mouth.
to look 'into' the cavity, we have to use a scope and coordinate the drill looking at a screen. And the tooth is generally attached to a 500 kg flight animal. So these are quite technical to do.

Love travelling with our completely cordless radiography equipment, to provide you decision making on the spot.Does this...
09/10/2025

Love travelling with our completely cordless radiography equipment, to provide you decision making on the spot.
Does this tooth stay or go? Does it require a 'filling' (pulp therapy and restoration)?

These are big decisions that should be left to advanced veterinary practitioners that can demonstrate to you that they have lots of education to back up those decisions.

Dental vet is the only vet practice on the South Island that can offer your horse a variety of root canal therapies. There is only one other vet on the NI providing these. And you know, if doing NOTHING is the best for your horse, that is exactly what we do. But your horse does need a VETERINARY diagnosis.

We get these cases referred and are grateful to the vets who refer these. Considering the large amount of painful 'root canals' I find in my own 'routine' dental exams, I have to conclude that the much smaller amount of these referred root canals, means these painful teeth get MISSED or DISMISSED by technicians and vets.

That means your head shaker for instance will continue to head shake, no matter how many herpes vaccines, new bits or supplements you throw at him. Yeah, I just wrote that. It is Friday, I am tired, shoo* me.

This pony?? Has a wide, diseased hollow tube in it's tooth where a normal root canal (pulp horn) used to be (blue). And this area will slowly continue to deteriorate.
He has a DIY repair inside it's tooth (pink arrow), because horse teeth are friggin amazing at that.
But, we do see some chronic changes (yellow).

Ahw thanks 🌸🌸🌸!! Hi Marieke. Thank you so much for treating my Teddy. As always your skill and professionalism shone thr...
29/09/2025

Ahw thanks 🌸🌸🌸!! Hi Marieke. Thank you so much for treating my Teddy. As always your skill and professionalism shone through resulting in an unstressed pony who had a positive experience. Your quiet manner suits Teddy perfectly and I know that each visit will be easier and easier. I have received the clinical report. Thank you again for your wonderful service. Huge hugs from me and Teddy 🧸. ###

Deep clean teeth….deep clean clinic🧹🧽🫧🫧 “Oh it’s so peaceful here” is probably one of my favourite remarks. Especially b...
29/09/2025

Deep clean teeth….deep clean clinic🧹🧽🫧🫧
“Oh it’s so peaceful here” is probably one of my favourite remarks. Especially because we work with big animals and people are often here for stuff that they experience as ‘heavy stuff’ radiographs, extractions or fillings. Or even the adventure of travelling their horse.

We value best practice and work hard to offer you clean and relaxing facilities.
Below Rach and Marieke midway through- excuse the mess on the espresso bench!!☕️☕️

Sleepovers at Dental Vet: safe paddocks, emotional support friends 😇😇🤣 and a short walk to the treatment building.
23/09/2025

Sleepovers at Dental Vet: safe paddocks, emotional support friends 😇😇🤣 and a short walk to the treatment building.

Thank you Farm Vets Equine for hosting a practical day and client evening. A beaut team of vets in the Gisborne Wairoa a...
20/09/2025

Thank you Farm Vets Equine for hosting a practical day and client evening. A beaut team of vets in the Gisborne Wairoa area going the extra mile for clients and horses.

17/09/2025

Invest 0.70 cents a day, triple your gains in feed conversion, training cost, bitting cost and fun.

Quality dental checks every 6 months from a foal to 5/6 years of age are beneficial for overall health, welfare, development for the rest of your horses life.

So many changes, loosing baby teeth, erupting adult teeth during their formative training years.

It’s very hard to ‘catch up’ even in 5 year olds that have not had regular check ups for instance. Adult primary tooth eruption and skeletal head development have mostly been completed by then, making conformational quirks harder to manage.

FYI Check up does not necessarily mean ‘treatment’ or rasping.

Whatcha think of our amazing light? So effective even on the brightest of spring days. Due to our sole focus on dentistry and advanced case load, you are ensured we have the best newest equipment available.

14/09/2025

How to spot pain during wolf tooth extraction? Horses with adequate pain relief through a correct nerve block, do not chew or move their tongue (nor head or body). Sedated horses without (good) nerve block, will still feel pain and will let you know about this. Unless somebody have zonked them so much they can feel pain but cannot respond (not safe, not kind).

Are you making good decisions and keeping your horse or patient free of pain?

It’s the kind and sensible thing to do.
It’s the most effective: they won’t go very well for you with broken teeth!!
It’s the NZ Animal Welfare Act

(Edited for vets: this was an erupted yet atypically placed root, hence the elevator being at this angle. Usually the elevator is placed inside the speculum arch.)

Miniature photobomb at the Finishing Touch Equestrian Turnout Clinic last weekend 🐴🧲🧲 equestrian
14/09/2025

Miniature photobomb at the Finishing Touch Equestrian Turnout Clinic last weekend 🐴🧲🧲 equestrian

Two main avenues we investigate with malocclusions like this:The malocclusions being- An overjet- Slanted bite- and an O...
03/09/2025

Two main avenues we investigate with malocclusions like this:
The malocclusions being
- An overjet
- Slanted bite
- and an Offset bite

Poor dude has the trifecta! and still jumping his heart out for his owner.

One avenue is investigating if this horse has any conformational reasons. Yes, he has an overjet caused by brachygnatism of the mandible.

the Other, in my view even more important avenue is: any pathology that causes him pain and therefore less chewing pressure on one side of the mouth. Leading to elongation, slanted and offset bite.

28/08/2025

On this episode of Where is Wally…Marieke covers the subtle clues that lead her to Wally the Wonky Tooth.

27/08/2025

Pup came to tell me I have to call it a day. Finished the blurb for Show Jumping Canterbury 🐴 together with Murphy the best Labracadabrador ♥️

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