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| So please, someone else join me in my commiseration of having to spend $2200 on a surgical extraction of a fractured molar in my horses mouth? It was a two hour procedure, the tooth was dead and had to come out, and it was done in a professional veterinary clinic. Has anyone else ever experienced this?? |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Yeah... If it took more than 30 mins... You got screwed... Did you get a hug and a kiss to go with it?? |
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| OUCHHHHH! Our vet is going to do ours in the $500 range. |
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| komet. - 2015-04-18 2:35 AM Yeah... If it took more than 30 mins... You got screwed... Did you get a hug and a kiss to go with it?? This was a surgical procedure, an equine dentist had fought with this tooth for at least 30 minutes a month before and couldn't get it out. They called this an "endodontic failure with open pulp horns on the 308." X-Rays had to be taken before and after to make sure all of the fragments were out. I thought the price tag was pretty high, but I'd never had one surgically removed like that in a clinic. They had to perform a coronectomy along with the extraction, to protect the nerve roots of the proximal molars. They also had to administer a nerve block, not just ace or seda-vet. I've not ever had anything this elaborate done before, it was more than just an ordinary float that's for sure!
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| Itsme - 2015-04-18 5:25 AM OUCHHHHH! Our vet is going to do ours in the $500 range.
Why are they extracting it? Is it fractured? |
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| My understanding and this is general.
Supposedly there is a specific tool to extract each tooth, one tooth one specific tool.
My vet says not many professionals, either vets or dentists dont have a complete set, and he sees a lot of horses where someone has tried to remove a tooth without the proper tool without success, then he has to surgically remove it.
What your experience was, sounds like the normal, not sure on the cost though.
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| cheryl makofka - 2015-04-18 8:51 AM My understanding and this is general. Supposedly there is a specific tool to extract each tooth, one tooth one specific tool. My vet says not many professionals, either vets or dentists dont have a complete set, and he sees a lot of horses where someone has tried to remove a tooth without the proper tool without success, then he has to surgically remove it. What your experience was, sounds like the normal, not sure on the cost though. Ah yes- thank you,, that makes sense- they were telling me that they had to design a tool to extract this tooth since the tooth had been partially removed already by the equine dentist. They said their tool would no longer fit that tooth- I didn't understand that part until you just explained that each tooth requires a specific tool. Quite a learning experience anyway! I had two equine dentists who were unsucessful with him, now I know why- thanks again!
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| trickster j - 2015-04-18 9:59 AM
cheryl makofka - 2015-04-18 8:51 AM My understanding and this is general. Supposedly there is a specific tool to extract each tooth, one tooth one specific tool. My vet says not many professionals, either vets or dentists dont have a complete set, and he sees a lot of horses where someone has tried to remove a tooth without the proper tool without success, then he has to surgically remove it. What your experience was, sounds like the normal, not sure on the cost though.
Ah yes- thank you,, that makes sense- they were telling me that they had to design a tool to extract this tooth since the tooth had been partially removed already by the equine dentist. They said their tool would no longer fit that tooth- I didn't understand that part until you just explained that each tooth needed a specific tool. Quite the learning experience!
It is, my vet is 4 hours one way, so he teaches me as much as possible so I can prevent things like this.
When I call a closer vet, or a dentist, it is one of the first questions I ask, do you have all the tools, one for each tooth, sadly I haven't even found a vet close to me that does. |
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Location: Phoenix | Mine has his 203 removed, and it was a $500ish procedure. With 308's position, I can see how it was more expensive. Still...yikes!!!
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| trickster j - 2015-04-18 12:19 AM
So please, someone else join me in my commiseration of having to spend $2200 on a surgical extraction of a fractured molar in my horses mouth? It was a two hour procedure, the tooth was dead and had to come out, and it was done in a professional veterinary clinic. Has anyone else ever experienced this??
Did you ask the vet for a rough estimate on what the procedure was going to cost? i ask for an estimate on everything-from my horses to my trucks. An estimate is just that, but if my horse hadn't been worth $2000.00 i could have made a better informed decision on whether to proceed or cut my losses. |
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| trickster j - 2015-04-18 8:19 AM
Itsme - 2015-04-18 5:25 AM OUCHHHHH! Our vet is going to do ours in the $500 range.
Why are they extracting it? Is it fractured?
Im not 100% sure, she had a root canal done before we bought her but apparently it wasnt done correctly or effectively so our vet xrayed and said he will pull it and xray again for $450-$500.
Im not sure the number but it looks very close to yours. |
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Location: Muskogee, OK | Really depends on exactly what is going on with the tooth, but molars are VERY hard to get out and if your vet tells you otherwise they are lying. Even more so if the root is fractured. $2200 is a little steep, but this also depends on your area and the actual clinic you go to. If the surgeon is good and corrects whatever is going on well it is absolutely worth it, as if molar issues arent repaired correctly they can become ongoing problems for the rest of the horses life. |
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