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Equine Dental Care Centreville VA
The Importance of Maintaining the Health of Your Horse’s Mouth
Routine dental care is essential to your horse’s in health. Periodic examinations and regular
maintenance, such as floating, are especially necessary today for a number of reasons:
We have modified the horse’s diet and eating patterns through domestication and
confinement.
We demand more from our performance horses, beginning at a younger age, than ever
before.
We often select breeding animals without regard to dental considerations.
Proper dental care has its rewards. Your horse will be more comfortable, will utilize feed
more efficiently, may perform better, and may even live longer.
The Horse’s Mouth
Horses evolved as grazing animals, and their teeth are perfectly adapted for that purpose.
The forward teeth, known as incisors, function to shear off forage. The cheek teeth,
including the molars and premolars with their wide, flat, graveled surfaces, easily grind the
feed to a mash before it is swallowed.
Like humans, horses get two sets of teeth in their lifetime. The baby teeth, also called deciduous
teeth, are temporary. The first deciduous incisors may erupt before the foal is born. The last
baby teeth come in when the horse is about 8 months of age. These teeth begin to be replaced
by adult teeth around age 2 1/2. By age 5, most horses have their full complement of
permanent teeth. An adult male horse has 40 permanent teeth. A mare may have between 36-
40, because mares are less likely to have canine (bridle) teeth.
The following chart shows the approximate ages at which different teeth erupt. By referring to
it, you may detect potential abnormalities of your own horse associated with teething. For more
information, refer to the Official Guide for Determining the Age of the Horse, published by the
AAEP.
Deepwood Veterinary Clinic
7300 Ordway Rd.
Centreville, VA 20121
(703) 631-9133
www.deepwoodveterinaryclinic.com

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Equine Dental Care Centreville VA

  • 1. Equine Dental Care Centreville VA
  • 2. The Importance of Maintaining the Health of Your Horse’s Mouth Routine dental care is essential to your horse’s in health. Periodic examinations and regular maintenance, such as floating, are especially necessary today for a number of reasons: We have modified the horse’s diet and eating patterns through domestication and confinement. We demand more from our performance horses, beginning at a younger age, than ever before. We often select breeding animals without regard to dental considerations. Proper dental care has its rewards. Your horse will be more comfortable, will utilize feed more efficiently, may perform better, and may even live longer. The Horse’s Mouth Horses evolved as grazing animals, and their teeth are perfectly adapted for that purpose. The forward teeth, known as incisors, function to shear off forage. The cheek teeth, including the molars and premolars with their wide, flat, graveled surfaces, easily grind the feed to a mash before it is swallowed.
  • 3. Like humans, horses get two sets of teeth in their lifetime. The baby teeth, also called deciduous teeth, are temporary. The first deciduous incisors may erupt before the foal is born. The last baby teeth come in when the horse is about 8 months of age. These teeth begin to be replaced by adult teeth around age 2 1/2. By age 5, most horses have their full complement of permanent teeth. An adult male horse has 40 permanent teeth. A mare may have between 36- 40, because mares are less likely to have canine (bridle) teeth. The following chart shows the approximate ages at which different teeth erupt. By referring to it, you may detect potential abnormalities of your own horse associated with teething. For more information, refer to the Official Guide for Determining the Age of the Horse, published by the AAEP.
  • 4. Deepwood Veterinary Clinic 7300 Ordway Rd. Centreville, VA 20121 (703) 631-9133 www.deepwoodveterinaryclinic.com