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: @-"-@ @---@ o__o ( 0-0 ) <=*"*=> (. . ) ---------oOO--\Y/--OOo------oOO--\o/--OOo------ooO--\v/--Ooo-------------- Victor 8> Hugo 8> Adele :> Anne Charbonneau Faculte de medecine dentaire Universite de Montreal [log in to unmask] Tel: (514) 343-5924 [log in to unmask] Fax: (514) 343-2233 [Posted in FML issue 1263]