Tips Maintaining Oral Health and Dentistry in Pet

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Dental health in pets is very important. Like us humans, require oral and dental care, as well as our pets. The following tips provide guidance for how to maintain dental health in your pets.

#~~# Make a habit of brushing teeth after eating #~~#
Initially quite difficult, but do it gradually. For first introduction, use cotton, soft cloth or you can use your fingers to clean the pets' teeth. So that he feels comfortable and will not be traumatized.

If the dog is already accustomed to cleaning teeth. So the next stage is that you can use a special toothbrush with soft feather brush and adapted to the jaw size beloved dog. And do not forget to use a special toothpaste flavored fish or chicken that your dog will definitely love it, even if ingested will not be dangerous.

Make this healthy habit when dogs aged three months or when it started to grow teeth.

#~~# Providing hard-textured foods #~~#
Dogs or cats are basically like hard food such as chicken bones or fish bones. But because of they are pets and we loved them dearly, we always provide fast food, special food for dog or cat with a soft textured. It is not allowed but actually eating the usual softening we give, will give bad effects to the dog's dental health, flabby or soft foods easy to stick in between the teeth that eventually accumulate into plaques.

Meanwhile, hard foods that will help clean the dogs teeth from the plaques attached to the teeth.

If you want to practically give solid and hard to eat a dog, you can give special biscuits for dogs. Surely the nutrients very satisfied. This as a snack food other than canned food that we usually give.

#~~# Give your pets toys #~~#
Toys other than serve as entertainment for pets, choosing the right toys will help keep your pet dental health. We can provide synthetic bone toy, rubber ball or a plate-shaped toy is thrown and that can be bitten and made from high quality rubber (rubber Throwing).


#~~# Routine check the pet to the vet #~~#
Although we already provide care every day of pets, ranging from caring for her teeth, giving the best food, and to give our pets' toys. But still we have to bring our pets to the vet for health check his teeth, because in order to overcome the plaques or the stubborn tartar on the teeth to our pets. We need the help of your veterinarian to clean the tartar.

Check routine oral and dental health of pets, at least six months or once a year to the vet.


Healthy teeth and mouth is the beginning of the overall health.

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