diastemas- any management ideas?

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my older cob (mid-late twenties) had his teeth rasped today(they are done yearly) and was found to have two displaced hind teeth (pushed inwards) causing diastemas and food to pocket in his cheeks,causing ulcers. The teeth were rasped and I was advised to feed easy to soak feed such as beet and nuts, he has lost a little weight but nothing major.Apparently the offending teeth cannot be removed as they are quite sturdy and would cause damage to jaw, vet mentioned putting a kind of filler in the gaps and will be revisiting in a month or so. Just wondering if anyone else has experiance of this? what they did? what they fed? long term prognosis?

a glass of wine and some baileys gateux for anyone who read this far!
 
i would add fast fibre to his diet (nice mushy feed allen and page) and also flush his mouth out daily with saline solution. you will need a huge syringe (or one of those huge syringe with long nozzle like the dentists use) your vet should be able to source one of these.
 
Buy a gag off eBay - I got one as good as my dentist uses for £160 from the U.S., and use it weekly to clear out the pockets?? Try a minty antibacteial ("Total") toothpaste in the pocket once clean, as well. Much cheaper in the long run than more vet visits, and you'll always have a useful gag whenever you need to put your hand in a horse's mouth :) !

I can't really see that whether you feed him mushy food or not is going to do anything really - all food is going to get into those pockets and stay there, isn't it??
 
my horse has diastemas and goes into the vets annually to get treatment for them. they file down teeth in a slant (i think and dig out the foot and gum) costs approx£200 but she is worth it. as for feed etc she is on a normal diet and is ridden in normal snaffle etc
 
When I had my mare, in her later years she had hooks on her teeth which she would not let dentist near so only option was for my vets to sedate her twice yearly and power tool the hooks that she had- she also had gaps in her teeth where food could potentially collect and the vets simply suggested that i gently hose/rinse her mouth out every evening after her tea. It seemed to work for her.
 
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