You’ve probably seen it dozens of times. A 7-year-old horse presents with a small hook on the distal edge of the upper corner incisor – 103 or 203. You reach for the float, maybe without…
You’ve probably seen it before. A horse with no obvious pathology, no fractures, no feed packing… and yet a cheek tooth is unexpectedly mobile. Or worse – already lost. We tend to blame the tooth….
You’ve got the horse sedated, the speculum in place, and your mirror positioned. There’s something off about the 109s. A dark, irregular patch inside the infundibulum. Is it cemental wear? A feed stain? Early caries?…
Somewhere along the way, “floating teeth” became code for “smooth them out.” I see it all the time. Perfectly flat arcades, sharp enamel points completely removed, and the veterinarian walking away thinking they’ve done the…
For decades, Galvayne’s Groove has been held up as a standard reference point for aging horses by their teeth – taught in vet schools, shared among practitioners, and repeated in textbooks without much question. But…