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Post by fridaycat on Sept 1, 2020 20:53:06 GMT
...at the vet’s office? As in, put under anesthesia for the cleaning? Did your dog have any extractions as a result? How much does your vet charge for this? I was taken aback by the initial quote which was just for the cleaning. When I called to ask questions about the procedure I was then told about more $$$ for (likely) extractions. Our 8 year old Papillon goes in tomorrow and we are worried for the little guy!
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Post by hop2 on Sept 1, 2020 20:55:30 GMT
Mine is 13 she cleaned them last December. She has Sen him every year since he was 12 weeks and since he was 8 she sees him 2x a year and never wanted to before. So we did it. We also had a growth on his leg taken off because he used to chew on it all the time and since he was going to be under we did it at the same time.
No extractions but the growth greatly added to the price. I spent almost $2000 with the pre testing that he could go under anesthesia, the teeth cleaning, the growth & the labs & probably his heart worm meds. I can check my bill when I get home if you want
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Sept 1, 2020 21:00:32 GMT
My elderly Dachshund had them annually for the last few years of her life. All told, around $1,000 each time. Lots of extractions. But dogs start out with 64? teeth, so she still had 1/2 of them. Our vet injected an antibiotic substance in the gum area of teeth that seemed to retain plaque, but man! Old Mabel had bad teeth. I didn't do any brushing or other preventative things for her. I know that I should have. Now, MaxTheBeagle is 9, and the vet is starting to suggest cleanings. I'm giving him this 'dental food' that is large kibble he has to bite into, with the hopeful result of knocking off some of the tartar. It's a Science Diet food.
ETA we had all the labs available, because she had a heart condition... which of course added to the price.
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Post by summer on Sept 1, 2020 21:01:18 GMT
My dog just had her dental cleaning last week. She’s 6 years old and it’s the second time she’s been put under anesthesia for a cleaning. It was over $1,000. She had blood work done a week prior to make sure she was in good health for the procedure. That was a few hundred. She did not need any extractions, but she did have some excess gum tissue that needed to be surgically removed and sent out for a biopsy. Luckily it was benign. I brush her teeth daily, they told me to wait a month after the biopsy to resume teeth brushing.
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scorpeao
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Post by scorpeao on Sept 1, 2020 21:36:32 GMT
My dog is 13 and when I take her to vet visits I'm told how 'young' her teeth look. I've never had her teeth cleaned.
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Post by whipea on Sept 1, 2020 21:39:43 GMT
Wow! Have Greyhounds and they tend to have bad teeth so every year. When we had older dogs it was about $375.00. We have a 3 year old and it will be about $250.00 - no blood work. They go to a vet that specializes in Greyhounds - they have different physiology than other dogs.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Sept 1, 2020 21:51:59 GMT
Never. The Belgians never had issues with their teeth so we never spent the money. It was very expensive and when paying for school/college tuition, it wasn't a priority. The current dog doesn't have issues either and the vet hasn't recommended it so no cleanings so far. He's 8 yrs old now.
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Post by mikewozowski on Sept 1, 2020 22:09:42 GMT
my dog is 12 and she has had it twice. idk the amount for sure but around 300 each time.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 1, 2020 22:19:33 GMT
we have senior dogs, so that added to the price-- lab testing / blood work to make sure they're healthy enough to undergo the anesthesia. Our Shelties had *bad* teeth... when Bisbee had hers cleaned for the very last time, she had 19 extracted, and that was maybe about half of them?? I think dogs have 38 teeth, or something like that. (the tiny little ones in the front were actually about 10 of the teeth she had extracted, so it really didn't make any difference to her). Krista, the older Sheltie, actually had all of her teeth extracted except for her 4 canine teeth the very last time we had hers cleaned... like I said, *bad* teeth. I think both times, those bills were probably at least $1000.
(eta: Krista ended up having congestive heart failure with pneumonia, and I have a suspicion that a bacterial infection related to her bad teeth may have contributed to that.)
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Post by fridaycat on Sept 1, 2020 22:24:11 GMT
Wow, okay, I guess I won’t complain too much since our vet is giving $ amounts toward the lower end of the figures you all are saying. The gal on the phone said that it would be unusual, but not impossible, for a small breed of dog over the age of five to have no extractions. I had no idea!
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Post by lavawalker on Sept 1, 2020 22:29:07 GMT
I’ve owned dogs all my life, and none have had their teeth cleaned.....
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 1, 2020 22:31:22 GMT
just for information, if your dog does happen to need some extractions, it won't really stop them much. Krista did fine with only her canines. While she was healing from the surgery, I softened her kibble (I'd put a bit of water on it the night before, put it in the fridge, and it would be soft in the morning). But after she healed up, I think we only softened it a little bit with H20 and the microwave. She even still chewed (well, 'gummed' lol) rawhide chews. I wouldn't let her do it for very long, but she still wanted to do it.
I think our bills were always $X for a dental cleaning, + $200 or so for the blood work... and then any extractions were something like $20-30 per tooth. So when they needed a LOT of teeth removed, it added up. I believe they might have had to do x-rays, too, if the extractions involved the big back molars.
ETA: smaller-breed dogs are typically prone to more dental issues than larger ones, in general.
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