What is the Difference between a Veterinary Equine Dentist and a veterinarian who does equine dentistry?
The answer would be the same as the difference between your dentist and your general care physician. Both are medical professionals, but their training is very different based on the medical focus they have selected. When you walk into your family practitioner’s office you don’t see equipment specialized for human dentistry. Your doctor looks in your mouth, looks at your tonsils and overall health, but will send you to a dentist for the proper oral health care A graduate veterinarian has the license to practice medicine, surgery and dentistry in all animal species. All of this training for all of these species of animals is done in four years. This means that they’ve usually learned a little knowledge about a great deal of subjects, dentistry included. They may specialize in large animal medicine and perhaps take a course in dentistry after college, but as with human dentistry, there is more to learn than this short time would allow. This is a veterinarian who does equine dentistry as
