My two horses was visiting a dentist specialist tuesday 23th march 2010.

Here in Norway we have only a few good dentist, and lucky for my horses the best one has her clinic just an hour by car from where we live.

The dentists name is Ellen Schmedling and she is also a veterinary, chiropractor and a acupuncturist. For those who read norwegian, her web site is www.hestekur.no

First Ellen treatet both horses with chiropactor methods.

Then she sedated them an cheked their teeht.

All photos are before any treatment!

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First was my 4year and 10month old Ardenner mare Loppa:

Loppa was examined 4months ago. Loppas under part of the mouth is a little bit in front of the upper jaw. That causes a hook on her front cheek teeth in the under part of the mouth.

Since she is so young the dentist wouldn`t do any thing with the teeth last time, because she said that Loppa maybe would fix this her self.

But we had to monitor it closely and chek it in 3-4months time. So here we are.

Loppa has very nice gums. Nice lightpink color without any wounds.

All her last molars/cheek theeth has just been replaced to temporary teeth and are still a bit immature.

She has nice sharp teeth and all pulpas look normal and healthy.

As you can see Loppas chewing had not been able to get the hook of by herself, so this time Ellen did take the hook away.

(The orange pices in her mouth is just a carrot eaten not to long ago LOL ;-)

Here is left and right lower jaw-teeth; you can see the little hook on the first premolar/cheek tooth on bith sides.

This is the left and right upper jaw, notice the first premolar also called the wolf tooth.

You can best see it inn the "left-picture". The little round tooth in the front!

I am not and will never use a bit on Loppa, so she we are not removing those wolf teeth.

On this picture you can also see that the second premolar/cheek tooth has a steeper angle and can in future cause damage to the gum, and was therefore slightly filed.