Cats - Dental care - your pet's teeth and gums

For some pet’s a prescription dental diet such as Hills t/d may be recommended to keep your pet’s teeth and gums healthy and clean. Ever wondered how they work and what you can do to get the most out of your pet’s dental diet?

There are several preventative measures you can take at home to protect your pet's teeth and gums. Brushing your pet's teeth daily is the ‘gold standard' and most thorough, although we also cover other measures such as feeding raw bones, dental diets, rinses, etc.

In the wild, cats that appear sick or injured are vulnerable to predators. For this reason cats often disguise illness and only look sick when they are extremely unwell. As a cat owner, you are in

An at home dental examination should only take 1-2 minutes, and should be done at least once a month. For some pets this may take a little patience and time, that's why it is best to start routine dental examinations from a young age.

Advanced dental disease is not only painful and uncomfortable for pets, the procedure to clean and remove teeth becomes more complicated and often more costly to treat. See images of a typical scenario for a dog aged 3 years or older with no professional dental cleaning or homecare provided.

During this short video we discuss the three important early warning signs of dental problems as well as more advanced signs of dental disease.