OT: Dog Dentist

My alma mater, MU, will soon be training dog and cat dentists. No joke. Excerpt:

"Recent research reveals that dogs and cats three years and older have an 80 to 85 percent chance of acquiring dental disease. If left untreated, the family pet could suffer heart, liver and kidney damage, resulting in a shorter life span.

"For animal lovers who want the best in dental health for their pet, the University of Missouri-Columbia will open a veterinary dentistry laboratory to train students and licensed veterinarians.

"There are only about 75 board-certified veterinarians who can perform dentistry in the United States and less than 100 in the world. Mizzou's new facility will be the only one in Missouri and one of only three permanent sites in the United States that offer this type of training."

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Built_Well
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LOL that's funny stuff

------------------------------------ Mike Mangione

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xblazinlv

In Japan, there is an expressionn called "neko ni koban" which means "jewelry for the cat" and and refers to excess and unnecessary spending on someone who doesn't care. In other words, the cat doesn't give a rat's petunia whether it is wearing real diamonds or cubic zirconia.

We have 3 cats, a dog, and a rabbit, and the vet was always after us to get Tiger (a Maine Coon cat) to lose some weight, and oh, by the way, we should pay an extra $120 per animal to get the critter's teeth cleaned, which we did most of the time it was recommended. I asked the vet how these animals kept their teeth clean out in nthe wild, and she said that a wild animal generally does not live as long as a domestic one so they die before they have tooth problems. After all that money, we still had to pay the vet to pull most of Tiger's teeth due to gum disease and now we have cats that are so old that they can't jump up on our bed so we have to leave a chair next to the bed for the cats to use as an intermediate stop on their way to the bed spread.

IMO, vetrinary dentistry is neko ni koban :-)

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Ray O

My dentist doesn't charge me that much to get *my* teeth cleaned. That cat gets better dental care than I do :)

Here's more detailed info on the new dentistry school:

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Apparently, they may also be teaching how to care for fishes' teeth, too. Note the remark at the very end of the page.

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Built_Well

I questioned the high price - she said it included general anesthesia, heart monitoring, etc.

Hmmm... I thought that sharksw grew new teeth if they lost them. Even if they did not, dentistry on a shark doesn't sound like a very safe endeavor!

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Ray O

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