All Blog Posts Tagged 'geoff tucker dvm' (4)

Equine Dentistry Traveling 105 Nights A Year REVISITED

A year or two ago I wrote this blog numbering the nights I spent in a hotel serving horse owners. It is not the end of August, 2010 yet and I have already exceeded this number. I am guessing that I will visit a Marriott hotel about 150 times this year.




September 11, 2001 - New London, CT - A beautiful…
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Added by Geoff Tucker, DVM on August 23, 2010 at 6:31pm — No Comments

Equine Dentistry And The Importance Of The Tongue (Again)

Some interesting cases this past week all involving old horses having difficulty chewing hay and grain and loosing weight. They were all great examples of pain as it relates to the ability for the tongue to freely move within the mouth.



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Added by Geoff Tucker, DVM on June 14, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Equine Dentistry And The Threshold Of Pain

Have you noticed that some horses are wimps with a low or nonexistent threshold for pain while others seem to tolerate all sorts of pain. This seems to be reasonable because if I placed a pebble in your shoe and an identical pebble in your friend's shoe then sent you both running, one of you would stop and cry while the other would continue to run.…

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Added by Geoff Tucker, DVM on May 19, 2010 at 5:54pm — No Comments

Equine Dentistry: 10 Reasons Why Horse Owners Avoid It

 Horse's teeth erupt throughout their lives with constant wear occurring from teeth grinding against opposing teeth and continual stropping by the tongue. This wear is uneven and creates razor sharp edges that cause discomfort as those edges ulcerate the cheek and their tongue.



So if eruption and wear is continuous throughout the life of the horse…

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Added by Geoff Tucker, DVM on May 12, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

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