Clinical significance of equine cheek teeth infundibular caries
| Autor: | Nicole du Toit |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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040301 veterinary sciences
Dental research Population Dentistry Dental Caries 0403 veterinary science stomatognathic system Cheek teeth Oral and maxillofacial pathology medicine Animals Clinical significance Horses education Orthodontics education.field_of_study General Veterinary medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry 0402 animal and dairy science 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences General Medicine Cheek medicine.disease 040201 dairy & animal science Endoscopy stomatognathic diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Horse Diseases business Tooth |
| Zdroj: | Veterinary Record. 181:233-234 |
| ISSN: | 0042-4900 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/vr.j4033 |
| Popis: | Equine infundibular caries have been recognised as a dental disease in horses for more than a century,1-4 but their clinical significance has only recently gained renewed interest. Specifically, infundibular caries have been shown to be a cause of maxillary dental apical infections5-7 and dental fractures, particularly maxillary saggital midline fractures8 (Fig 1). The high levels of anatomical detail that can now be visualised with oral endoscopy in live standing sedated horses9 has further enhanced our recognition of this disease, especially at the earlier stage of the caries development. The increased use of CT for dental diagnoses and dental research has also increased our knowledge of infundibular anatomy and pathology.10 FIG 1: Midline saggital fracture of a 109, due to the end stage of severe infundibular caries Despite this, little is known about the true prevalence of this disease and the equine-specific aetiopathogenesis is still poorly understood. A study by Borkent and others,11 summarised on p 235 of this week’s Veterinary Record , demonstrated that infundibular caries of the maxillary cheek teeth are highly prevalent in the UK horse population … |
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