Dental Tips for your Four Legged Friend

Dental care is important for humans, but it is also important for your pets. Our pets can experience tooth pain, tooth decay, bad breath and many of the same symptoms that we as humans experience all of the time. The question for most pet owners is how do we take care of our pets teeth? We don't exactly have a pet dentist that we can take our pets to that will give them a check up like we get for ourselves.

What we have to look for as pet owners in our pets teeth is signs of Gingivitis. Gingivitis is a serious mouth diease in both animals and humans. Some signs of Gingivitis are when you see reddening and swelling of the gums. Gingivitis is often caused by build up and tarter on the teeth. Gum bleeding in animals and humans is the most typical sign of Gingivitis.

There are several ways to help prevent Gingivitis in your pet. The first step is to give your pet dry pet food. Dry pet food helps to eliminate plaque and tarter by the natural chewing process of the food. Even if your pet typical eats canned foods, you can switch up between the two that will allow your pet a head start at a healthy mouth.

Water is also another great source of fluoride for your pet that can help with breaking down plaque and tarter to prevent gum diease. You can also add more benefits to your pets drinking water by adding an oral hygeine solution to their drinking water.
Beyond these simple tips, there are also other things you can purchase to help your pet keep a healthy mouth. You can by pet toothpaste and tooth brushes. It may take your pet a little while to get use to having their teeth brushed daily, however this simple technique twice a day will prove to be beneficial to your pet.

Also keep in mind that dog treats are very helpful to your pet. Please remember to stay away from pet treats that are soft and sticky because they can stay in your pets mouth for extended periods of time and cause severe damage. Make sure you pay attention to harmful ingredients such as sugar. When reading ingredients be sure that the ingredients do all they claim to do.

If you do run into a problem with your pets mouth despite all of your preventive measures, then take your pet to a veterinarian. A veterinarian can examine your pets teeth and in the worse case recommend a professinal cleaning for your pet.

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