19/12/2025
Please Read! 👀☺️
From personal experience I am a super firm believer that it is best to get your horses and ponies oral examinations and treatments carried out by a Vet with a special interest in dentistry (like the incredible Nikita at YourVet)🤗
Unfortunately for one of my horses their worsening dental condition when unpicked up on despite my efforts at getting the dentist out more regularly (than my 10monthly routine) and discussing my concern.
Still with concerns for my boys dental health, I then booked in with Nikita for a second opinion and have never looked back! 😌
It turned out he had MULTIPLE (up to 8️⃣ in fact) diastemas in-between his teeth where impacted food had started to get stuck and cause gum disease. 🥺
We have since spent the last few years trying to get on top of them (with the help of veterinary dental specialists) and after his latest check up with Nikita last week, I'm pleased to say that we have had a MASSIVE improvement in his dental health and we are now down to ONLY 3 diastemas, which is great! 😁🤗
This has taken a lot of time ⏳️, effort 💪, extra research 📖 (on Nikita's behalf too!) and (lets not forget) 💲 to rectify an issue that unfortunately should have been picked up on in previous routine examinations.
Now I'm not bagging on my previous dentist, but I do believe that they must not have been able to see or feel the diastemas that were very clearly there, which with the help of sedation enables Nikita to see and feel far more clearly 👀✋️
So if your horses or ponies are due for a dental or if you have concerns about their dental health, get in touch with Nikita and the team at YourVet and you'll know you're in great hands! 💚
“If you can’t see it, you can’t diagnose it. And if you can’t diagnose it you can’t treat it.”
This is why a thorough oral examination with a calm/sedated patient, a bright light and dental mirror is so important, equine dentistry is much more than sharp enamel points.
