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Hi everyone. Having a down day today researching what I can about pedal osteitis. My horse is 15 and has quite bad osteitis caused probably by two keratoma operations six years ago (keratoma re-grew and so 2nd op removed quite a lot of bone and tissue to ensure it was gone). Now he has a...

sorry if I worried you, yes it is very rare, so please don't worry! it was a large one to start with, he had it removed under GA and it grew back relatively quickly afterwards, the vets think they hadn't removed enough first time because they were trying to preserve the hoof structure inside...

Hi Sarah_Jane just wanted to say I completely understand what it's like for that first lesson - my horse had a keratoma about 8 years ago, which grew back (he had 2 ops) and I remember that lesson so well - on a cloud! x