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ANIMAL DENTISTRY. 



tegrating process which neither resembles caries (the non- 

 inflammatory condition) nor necrosis (the inflammatory 

 condition), and as a result leaves the impression that caries 

 is existent in the herbivorous animals. Caries, the disease 

 of human teeth having its uniform cause, course and termi- 

 nation, is not seen in the herbivora, and the short lives of 

 the other domestic animals places the disease among the 

 rare disorders in veterinary practice. 



Treatment: — The carious tooth of dogs, cats and pigs 

 is treated by prompt extraction. Leveling, burnishing and 

 stopping the carious cavity, which constitutes the universal 

 treatment of the disease in the human tooth is an attainment 

 not expected of a veterinarian at the present time, and the 



Fig. I22.\. 

 White's Dog Speculum. 



rarity of the indications will doul)tless always prevent its 

 introduction into the veterinarv college curriculum. 



EXTRACTION OF THE TEETH OF DOGS. 



When the teeth of carnivora are loosened from disease 

 their extraction is easily accomplished with the forceps, but 

 when the implantation is not disturbed they can seldom be 

 extracted without fracture. The canines, especially, are 

 firmly imbedded into a curved cavity and will defeat any 

 ordinary method of removal. 



The extraction of the teeth of dogs is best accomplished 

 by first disturbing the implantation with a cutting bone for- 

 ceps along each side of the fang before applying the ex- 

 tracting forceps. The molars, canines and incisors may be 



