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Bonjour!
To Lorina:
The treatment for cavities in animal is the same as for human...
It can be:
- filling, if the cavities is in enamel and dentin only
- pulpotomy + filling, if the nerve is involve but still alive and healty
- root canal treatment + filling, if the nerve is too much involve or dead
- extraction, if the amount of destruction doesn't permit to
reconstruct the tooth (a crown is in general possible with human, but
ferret!?! ) or if there's also a big problem with the bone
around the tooth ( gums deseases )
If the tooth is fixed, your ferret won't have any problem eating. If the
tooth is extracted, well it will be like with human: not as good but
still possible.
Cost??? Same as dental work for human I think...
I'm a bit surprise that your ferret can have large cavities... Where are
they??? If it's dark and on the upper premolars (ferrets have 3 incisors,
1 canine, 3 premolars, 1 molar each side at the upper jaw and the same
plus an other molar at the lower jaw) and at the gum line, I will put a
5$ that's calculus...
Good luck! Anne et ses furets:
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Anne Charbonneau Faculte de medecine dentaire Universite de Montreal
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[Posted in FML issue 1263]
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