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]