Our Dental Services : Digital Intraoral Dental Radiographs

Dental Care Without Dental Radiographs is Bad Medicine

It's simple, you can't treat what you don't know is there! So, unless your veterinarian has x-ray vision, he can know what is going on under your pet's gums without dental x-rays. And if he doesn?t know, he is going to send your dog home with painful disease. That's wrong.   Here's the scenario that you don?t want to happen with your pet.

You take your dog in to your veterinarian. He finds visible signs of dental disease during his physical examination. The picture on the right is what he saw. Looks pretty healthy!

He discusses the need for a dental cleaning with you. You agree. Your pet is placed under anesthesia, the teeth are scaled and polished  and goes home that same afternoon. Everything is fine, right?

 

 

 

 

Not so quick!

The picture of the x-rays (which should have been taken is on the right)! See the white arrows pointing at areas of root abscesses? How do you think a pet will feel going home with that disease?  

Imagine what those root abscesses feel like!

Your pet's smile may temporarily be whiter but the pain will remain until those teeth fall out. That's not good!

 

 

Here's another photo and x-ray (that should have been taken) combo:

 

 

 

 

 

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Rest assured that we understand the importance of dental x-rays. We know that our patients can't tell us where it hurts!

 

We get a full set of dental radiographs on every pet. We understand that we can't treat disease that we can't see

 

 

We provide great dental care for the pets of
Olean, Portville, Wellsville, Bradford, Cuba, Smethport and Coudersport!