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We are a true centre of excellence for equine dentistry offering routine, advanced and specialist referral equine dentistry services.
The practice was started by Chris Pearce MRCVS in January 2013 to provide high quality equine veterinary dentistry services across the UK. EDC currently operates with three veterinary surgeons including Chris Pearce and Nicole du Toit, both European and RCVS Recognised Specialists in equine dentistry, and Nicky Brooks, our resident in equine dentistry. All our vets are highly experienced equine vets, with specialist training and years of experience in equine dentistry. Services include:
- Clinic based and visiting routine and referral services
- Advanced dental, oral and head surgical procedures
- Advanced imaging including Siemens Somatron 16-slice Computed Tomography (CT) scanner
Services
We provide a modern competitive equine dentistry service with treatments carried out at our own purpose built clinic in Dorset, or at various other equine practices and facilities throughout the UK.
- Equine dental referral services for vets and equine dental technicians (EDTs)
- Investigation for any dental problem, with advanced imaging including digital oral video camera, digital x-ray and computed tomography (CT scanning)
- We offer all modern dental treatments including cheek tooth extractions for infected teeth, diastema management, cavity restorations, root canal fillings and minimally invasive surgical treatments all performed under standing sedation
- We perform surgery for sinus and nasal disorders often using mini trans-nasal digital endoscopy and small sinus trephines
- Modern competitive routine maintenance dentistry service at your premises, or at our dental clinic in Dorset; Appointments within a 25 mile radius from our clinic are offered at fixed price; group yard clinics available at preferential rates – see our Routine Dental Care page
Equine Dental CPD Courses
We run our own unique ‘Key Skills’ CPD Series for both vets and EDTs. Our courses range from 1 to 3 days and cover all aspects of modern dental practice.
Get in Touch
If you have any questions about any aspect of equine dentistry, or would like to arrange an appointment for any routine or problem case, then we’re here to help.
We can arrange all aspects of a dental referral for you, just contact us in the first instance for advice and help.
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Very important paper published in EVJ this week from Carsten Staszyk’s group on anatomy of incisors and specifically where the pulp canal is in relation to the surface - the conclusion is that although the average distance from the surface to the vital pulp was 4.1mm, in some cases it was only 1mm and therefore ‘great care should be exercised when performing incisor reductions’. Interestingly the distance was found to reduce with age too.
Nobody wants to do any harm to horses when performing dentistry and definitely for incisors it seems less is more - regular conservative corrections advised rather than trying to fix any incisor wear abnormalities in one go.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/evj.12841onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Equine Veterinary Journal Volume 0, Issue ja Article Anatomy of equine incisors: Pulp horns and subocclusal dentine thickness L. M. Englisch Corresponding Author E-mail address:Lauritz.m.englisch@vetmed.uni-giessen.de Institute of Veterinary‐Anatomy, ‐Histology and ‐Embryology, Faculty of Vete...