Equine tooth abscess

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showingmadfilly

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Have any members experienced this issue.... my mare is on a weeks load of ab's then she will under go an op to remove the tooth if it has not gone down by at least 60%. What are the recovery times for these sorts of problems and what are the chancs of the ab's sorting it or it coming back.
 
I had a horse with a tooth absess, 5 consecutive lots of antibiotics failed to have any effect. I was warned that they can be very stubborn to respond. She had a necrotic baby tooth in her gum, most likely caused by an attack when she was a yearling and she was 3 yrs before it caused a problem.
Very skilled surgeon managed to extract it orally with just sedation, but it took several hours of wiggling by the team to get it loose. They said they'd give it 2 good attempts on the first two days of hospitalisation to get it out but if that failed she have a general and it would be taken out from the side of her face.
Surgeon was brilliant and little mare was as good as gold during the whole thing. She stayed in hospital for 5 days and then returned home to carry on as normal. She was too young to be backed, so didn't have to worry about bitting at that time.
She has 6 monthly dental checks to ensure she doesn't become uneven but apart from that, we 've had no problems with her mouth in the last 3 years since the op.
 
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My horses was sorted with ab's, was on them for 3 weeks and finished them about a month ago now so just keeping my fingers crossed it doesn't flare up again!
 
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Ive had two horses have teeth removed by repulsion. Ie from the outside. Both horses recovered well the second horse who was only 2 at the time recovered within 2 months and you would never know anything had occured. The first horse too about 6 months to recover and he was left with a slight deformaty to his jaw, but unless you felt for it you would never know. He was older about 10 years old.
I cant remember the cost of the first one but the second one was around £2000. Hope it clears up for you.
 
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What were the costs of the above?
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In total, approximately £1800 for investigations and treatment 3 years ago. She recovered quickly and was absolutely fine. If they'd had to give her a general and extract it through the side of her face, it would have been more expensive but quite honestly, she was very lucky (and vet was exceptional too ) that they got it out orally.

Fingers crossed that antibiotics do the job for your mare and she recovers quickly without further intervention.
 
A horse I ride is currently recovering from having one and a half teeth removed through his cheek. They were very infected, as was / is his sinus, and he has had a tube in his sinus to allow it to be flushed until it's clean. He was in the hospital for a week and now, two weeks later, is on box rest with minimal hay and allowed 15mins of grazing in hand twice a day.

I'm only getting second-hand info from his owner but it will apparently be a couple of months minimum for recovery. I think it was far enough back in his mouth not to cause bitting issues.

I think his was far too infected for antibiotics to even touch it, so I don't know how likely yours is to end up like Frank.

He's a big boy so it's lucky he's being so calm about box rest!

Good luck with yours!
 
From a dental point of view the antibiotics alone will not work as bacteria will just recolonized the area unless the tooth itself is removed. The antibiotics may keep it 'quiet' for a while but the infection will still be there.
 
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