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Animal Emergency Center Dental/Oral Surgery Service

Welcome to the Dental/Oral Surgical Service of the Animal Emergency Center. You have been referred to Dr. Dale Joseph Kressin, our staff specialist for dentistry or oral surgery. It is important that you become familiar with Dr. Kressin and the facilities at the Animal Emergency Center.

Animal Dental Center call for appointments:
1-888-598-6684 or 920-233-8409 or 414-540-6710

Animal Dental Website

www.mypetsdentist.com

AEC Dental Brochure:
VETERINARY DENTAL SPECIALISTS

AEC Dental Referral Form:
Patient Referral Form

 

What to expect
Dr. Kressin is very understanding and will listen to your concerns and needs. He will work in conjunction with your family veterinarian to accurately identify your pet's problems and to treat them. An estimate of fees will be provided. Your pet's teeth and oral cavity are often difficult to view in the exam room, especially with the excitement of an initial visit. After cleaning the teeth and in evaluating intraoral X- Rays, he can diagnose and more accurately evaluate the problems to be treated. We will arrive at an optimal treatment plan for your pet and further communicate cost estimates. Remember, we are on your side and are all part of a team to help your pet. This team is comprised of you, your veterinarian and your pet, as well as the AEC service providers. We are excited to work with you.

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Interesting Facts Regarding

On a visit to my family dentist, I noticed a sign in the reception area stating:
“Ignore your teeth and they will go away!

In our office at the Animal Dental Center, a sign in the reception area states:
“Ignore your pets' teeth and your pets will go away!

Veterinarians have learned to listen to clients, survey their needs and exceed their expectations to encourage them to become loyal patrons. If you:
“Ignore your clients, they will go away!

Our clients have familiarity with dentistry through experience with their family dentist. They rarely go to the dentist to have teeth extracted and they rarely return to dentists that ignore their dental needs. Your top 10 to 20% of clients have demonstrated loyalty to their pets and your practice. Your clients don't expect you to provide all services; however they depend on your thorough physical examination, including an oral evaluation for their pets. They also have confidence in you and rely on your familiarity with services available for their pets' problems. Waiting or watching for clinical signs of discomfort from oral-dental trauma (discolored or fractured teeth), abnormal development (missing or un-erupted teeth), oral lesions or periodontal disease is ignoring important problems. Your top clients expect and deserve treatment options. We are excited to offer our services locally and to be part of your professional team. This creates a win, win, win scenario for you, your client and the entire professional team.

Dr. Kressin is pleased to offer consultation, diagnostics and treatment for your client/patient case referrals in your area, near your client's home.

The Animal Dental Center Patient Referral Form allows you to choose the level of service you wish for us to provide and the degree of involvement you desire in the treatment planning. This enhances your client's experience of our "team effort" in serving their needs.

Typical Cases for Referral:

• Consultation: Breeder evaluation for occlusion, tooth shape and number of adult teeth.
• Oral/Dental disease diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and prevention.
• Evaluation for anomalous oral/dental and facial swelling; (congenital cleft lip and palate, lymphatic, salivary and tooth anomalies-enamel defects, enamel hypocalcification or hypoplasia).
• Metabolic, Neurologic and Oral Medicine; ("rubber jaw", enamel hypocalcification, neuropraxia, neuromuscular disease).
• Neoplasia diagnosis, staging, treatment and prognosis; (melanoma. fibrosarcoma, squamous cell carcinoma, osteosarcoma).
• Infectious (oral/periodontal), Immune mediated ("CUPS"- chronic ulcerative periodontal syndrome), and Inflammatory (gingivitis, periodontitis,"LPGS" lymphocytic, plasmacitic gingivostomatitis' faucitis, "FORLS" feline odontoclastic resorptive lesions)
• Oral/Dental Pain (discolored or fractured teeth, excessive licking or salivation, and trismus).
• Traumatic Injury and difficulty in opening or closing the mouth (tooth luxation or avulsion, tooth discoloration or fracture, mandibular or maxillary fracture, symphyseal separation, "TMJ" ankylosis, fracture or luxation) Tongue injury, mandibular or maxillary soft tissue "degloving" injury.
• Diagnostic: Visual, tactile (periodontal probing), digital imaging and exploratory surgery.
  

Treatment: Oral Surgery:

Exodontia- tooth extraction
Mandibular and maxillary fracture repair
Neoplasia (biopsy, "en bloc" soft tissue and bone resection, mandibulectomy
and maxillectomy) Oronasal and oroantral defect repair
Palate Defect Repair.

Treatment: Endodontics:

Root Canal Therapy
-(discolored or fractured teeth)
Crown reduction and Vital Pulpotomy
-(traumatic mal-occlusion)
Apexification/Apexogenesis
-(treatement on immature teeth)
Surgical Endodontics
-(fractured root tips or root Canal re-treatment)

Treatment: Orthodontics

Interceptive Orthodontics
-(prevention of developing mal-occlusion)

Active Force Orthodontics
-(Orthodontic appliance of adult malocclusion)

Treatment: Periodontics

Soft Tissue Surgery
-(Flap repair of gingival, perio-dontal and palatal defects )
Bone augmentation and regeneration
-(Guided Tissue Regeneration of periodontal defedts)
Periodontal Splinting
-(Loose teeth stabilization)

Treatments: Restorative

Amalgam restoration of cavities
Composite restoration of fractures and cavities Glass Ionomer restoration

Treatments: Prosthodontics

Crown therapy to protect vital and endodontically treated teeth.

 

 

AEC Dental Newsletters:

Do Your Pets Brush Their Teeth?

Importance of Thorough Dental Exams and Maintaining Excellent Dental Records

Considerations for the diagnosis and treatment of. Discolored Teeth

Palate Defects and Their Management

Oral Disease

Fractured Tooth

Useful Links

American Veterinary Dental College http://www.avdc.org
Academy of Veterinary Dentistry http://www.avdonline.org
Academy of Veterinary Dental Technicians http://www.avdt.us
Veterinary Oral Health Concil http://www.vohc.org
American Veterinary Dental Society http://www.avds-online.org
Journal of Veterinary Dentistry http://www.jvdonline.org
Hills Dental Care Site http://www.petdental.com
National Pet Dental Health Month http://www.petdental.com
American Veterinary Medical Association http://www.avma.org