Dental health is extremely important to your pets' well-being. Just like people, bacteria can spread from the gumline to the heart and cause a serious infection in the heart known as endocarditis. Many pets are also very stoic and will not let you know that they have a tooth that is hurting them. Here at Treasured Pets Veterinary Hospital, we offer a dental cleaning under anesthesia because a pet will not allow a thorough exam without it. A thorough exam also includes dental x-rays because 80% of dental disease occurs behind the gumline, where we can't see it. All pets undergoing anesthesia get full bloodwork before going under anesthesia and they get the same monitoring that a human would get when they go under anesthesia. So please bring your furry baby in for a full oral exam and dental cleaning so we can make sure they are happy and healthy from the tips of their noses to the tips of their tails.