Teeth and quidding

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I had my horses teeth done about a month ago by my (supposed to be) equine vet. He told me that the teeth on one side needed doing as they had some hooks.

Since his visit I have noticed that my horse is quidding worse and worse and is dropping loads of food when he is eating and then goes round hoovering it up when the bucket is empty. I am really worried about this because I thought that quidding was a sign that they needed their teeth doing!

My horse is 5 so it's not as if he is an oldie.

Do you think I should find someone different to have another look? After having shelled out 80 euros for the vet to do them I am peed off with having to pay for them to be done again.
 
i would phone the vet in q and explain the problem and ask him to re check them! sometimes if major work and dremmelling has been done it takes a couple of week s for them to get used to the new bite, but again would get them re checked... (foc)
 
If your horse is only 5 they could still be shedding caps and a loose one of these could be causing the quidding, the vet may not have been able to easily tell if there were any left but if your horse was quidding when seen and not stopped since it does imply that something was missed. I agree that you should ring and ask for another visit and spefically ask to check for caps and get them to show you whats going on as well. Ultimately if you don't have confidence you are probably better to get another professional. just to add; If your horse does still have caps at 5 they need to be removed.
 
Ok, for what its worth....
Get an equine Dentist out, not a vet.
An equine vet spends a mere 4 weeks of the entire time training to be a vet on teeth. That not a great deal.
A dentist on the other hand, spends day in, day out looking at nothng BUT teeth. They can pick up in nanoseconds on what a vet may have been missing fullstop.
PM VictoriaEDT or PaintboxEDT on here. They may be working in your area, and if not may know who the qualified dentist for your area is.
 
All our vets locally have done quite a lot of dentistry training - and I trust them.

I'd get your vet back - it may be that he needs to sedate and fully examine - could be just the rasping settling down as suggested, I've found it normaly takes a couple of weeks - it might be something like loose caps - or even a diastoma that needs to be opened up.
 
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