From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-03-02 00:02:57 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Dental question
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
If you look in _Biology and Diseases of the Ferret_ you will notice that kibble resulted in
better mouth health than soft food, but when soft food is needed it just is needed.
> symposium, much more damage is done to teeth by a kibble
> only diet as the tooth shape is not amenable to be adequately
> cleaned by kibble.
I keep hearing that but it is not consistent with our own experience over a space of 26
years, so while I am certainly open to the possibility of rate differences it isn't a universal
family experience.
The only ones we have had with cracked teeth have been the few who liked to chew on
hard items such as metal and there were few of those.
We are always willing to have professional dental care done for them but only a few have
needed it.
One of those was also on a soft diet and finally liquid diet for her last 6 months plus and
in addition had multiple deformities and health problems that can related to poor mouth
health; we knew she had bad mouth health but she had something like 8 serious separate
but simultaneous medical problems about 5 of which could be fatal all on their own
(including a heart tumor, cardiomyopathy, insulinoma, liver cysts, etc. so had to weigh
risks carefully. Another one we had over that time with very severe multiple congenital
malformations also had severe stomach, intestinal, and liver problems and on and off
pancreatic inflammation related to when those kicked up. He was prone to easily getting a
filthy mouth. (BTW, Bob wound up with the remains of one the first of these two severely
handicapped individuals after Dr. Williams took all soft tissues that were of use to him for
educational purposes.)
We had one who knocked out two incisors on metal, one (current) who chipped the end off
one canine on metal (carry cage on the way to the vet, actually), one who cracked a canine
root-- cause unknown but he was big on going after plastic, and a few (3, maybe 4
individuals? I could not be forgetting more than one or 2 but admit that is possible given
the space of time involved and that includes the ones already mentioned for other dental
problems) who had cavities, and one who had a palatine eruption of a molar so that had to
come out.
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