This is our Intraoral Dental X-Ray unit

How would you feel if your dentist was going to start working on your teeth but hadn't bothered to get dental xrays? Would that worry you? I'll bet it would!

Pet dental disease is much like human dental disease in that it's usually impossible to provide high quality treatment without taking intraoral dental xrays. We simply can't know what is going on under the gums unless we are able to get xrays.

When we have a pet in to perform a "dentistry" our job is to appropriately treat all the dental disease that it has. That means we need to evaluate the health of each and every tooth.

We ask this question about each tooth, "Can we save this tooth or do we need to extract it so that the pet will become pain free?"

We can't know the answer to that question unless we have radiographs. Without having them to tell us what really is going on under the gums it is inevitable that we will extract some teeth that could have been saved and not extract some teeth that should have come out becuase they are diseased and painful.

This is our Digital Dental Imaging System

It replaces the old style dental film packs and liquid developer system. That little square sensor at the end of the wire is what is put in the pet's mouth. It "takes" the xray image and transmits it to our computer system.

This equipment allows us to take and see the radiographs much faster than the old film and developer. This helps reduce the time your pet needs to spend under anesthesia, another example of how speed can save lives!