Dental Polishing/Sealant?

[KingBoris]

We're taking Ed to the vet tomorrow morning to have an access tooth removed. One of the items on the list to do is "hedgehog dental/polishing/sealant". Has anyone ever heard of doing such a thing in hedgehogs? Does it even help. If this is not necessary, we would rather not get this done. Does anyone have any thoughts?

 

[Melissa]

I have never heard of it before. Sounds to me like a way to get in an extra charge.

If your hedgehog is on crunchies(which I assume he is) then there is no cleaning or anything else necessary.

 

[Kalandra]

Did they tell you they were going to do a polishing/sealant? If so, I'd ask them what that meant. If this is from a quote you got, I am going to guess that the dental/polishing/sealant is the clinic grouping similar procedures into one item for their billing system. I've seen my vet's office do that for various procedures.

 

[KingBoris]

Ed is back home now and safe in her cage. The vet broke the price down, and the polishing/sealant was part of a package program, which turned out to be about 6 dollars more. They ended up not adding the sealant because more work was done than initially planned; a second tooth was extracted due to a cavity and tooth rot. The whole office was very impressed at how friendly Ed is and how well she came out of the tooth removal procedure.

 

[Kalandra]

Hopefully his little mouth will heal quickly and not cause him any more problems.

 

[Nancy]

Yay! I'm sure her mouth will feel much better now. Glad she came through it so well.