Diastema - what works for your horse?

Silverfire said:
Hows your horse doing now RLS?
My filly was eating quite well again with only a bit of quidding until late Tuesday. Since then she has just been quidding every mouthful and quidding on the quids unable to chew the hay enough to swallow it. Ive just given her some metacam and thats helped a little bit. Shes having her mouth xrayed tomorrow.
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Everything I write on this forum in my posts is true, whether everything I've been told is true is another matter...
This was Silverfire quidding in October 2013 when I first wrote this post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBLCWDcJgfA
 
RLS said:
Hi Silverfire, thanks for the update. Glad your girl is eating better and I hope the antibiotics help her with the pain from the erupting teeth.
Toothache is just the pits! I've been to the dentist recently for my own teeth, and it's just not nice :(
My boy is still doing well. The vet thinks he'll need he teeth check every 6 months from now on. But that's ok, horses with no dental problems usually get done every 12 months anyway.
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Four years since I wrote this post. Ive been reading back through the comments and do you know what was really spooky about all of this with Silverfire - something I had actually totally forgotten about till recently because it was such a long time ago, but when I was little, probably only a bit older than Silverfire, I had to have four baby teeth removed just like her for the same sort of reason I think, how spooky is that coincidence....
 
And this was Silverfire quidding in July 2013 when she was just three years old after vet removed four of her caps, she had already lost two, that meant she had to eat on teeth with very painful diastemas. They were packed with putty but it had to be removed just over two weeks later as she couldnt chew properly as you can see in video. No wonder she got impaction/peritonitis colic three weeks later...not being able to chew properly slows movement of food through gut...and can cause impactions...not good for a horse who already lives with an impaction...Then in Sept he removed two more, one of those had fractured and twisted. Then in Nov she had the last four removed. I read somewhere baby teeth shouldnt be removed till they are ready, hope he hasnt damaged her teeth removing them all before their time was due.

https://youtu.be/32VBZL6aiPE
 
Well the no quidding didnt last long. Silverfire is now quidding again, although I had once or twice seen a quid on the floor I hadnt actually seen her quid for almost a month. Shes still having her mouth flushed and dental putty repacked every two weeks but seems its not working as well now...
 
Well I'm glad someone can see it.
Ive been thinking and Ive decided that I'm going to try letting nature heal my horse since vets are making no difference.
 
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