Do you brush your cats teeth or take it to the vet for teeth cleaning?

do you brush your cats teeth or take it to the vet for teeth cleaning and is ti safe to get a cats teeth cleaned at a vet i am scared to but my cat under anesthetics what rae the chances of her not waking up?also does she have to stay overnite?





thanks

Do you brush your cats teeth or take it to the vet for teeth cleaning?
Do both.





It is safe as long as to proper precautions have been made.





You vet should do preanesthetic bloodwork to make sure all of your cat's organs are functioning normally and can handle the anesthesia. Rarely are there any complications with a routine dental cleaning under anesthesia. The benfits of doing it under anesthsia is that they can get the teeth really clean, even underneath the gum line.





Many times with a healthy cat that just needs their teeth clean and has no rotting teeth that need to be removed, they will just use gas anesthsia. This is just the inhaled anesthesia. It is safe, quick and they wake up very quickly and aren't groggy afterwards.





Most of the time the animals will go home the same day. The only time they might stay overnite is if the dentals are done late in the day right before closing and they want the pet to stay and watch them recover. But that rarely happens. Ask to come in first thing in the morning and ask for them to clean her teeth in the morning too.





If you have ANY questions, your vet should be happy to answer them all. Any vet that doesn't want to answer even the simplest question about the way they do dentals, their monitoring equipment, where they clean the teeth %26amp; how, even show you their back office and where everything takes place, is not the vet vet to go to. Never go to a vet that has something to hide or has a dirty office.





Where I work, we are always happy to have any client look at our back office and where we do everything.
Reply:My cats teeth are cleaned and scaled once a year (usually) at the vet office.





All my cats are now in their "teens" and my cat who lived to be 22+ had her teeth cleaned every year till she passed away.





Vets should do a pre-anesthesia blood panel to check on the cat's organ health. My vets use gas anesthesia and the cats are not under very long and recovering almost as soon as the anesthesia mask is removed.





When my cats go in for their annual exam the vet always checks the teeth and if they need a cleaning they get it.
Reply:None of my cats have had to stay over night. The vet will do bloodwork on your cat to make sure it is healthy enough to be put under for the cleaning. Bad teeth can lead to all sorts of health problems such as heart failure. It's very important for their teeth to be kept clean and in good shape.
Reply:well u can always get the food thats good with cats teeth like with plaque and everything and every year or so take to the vets
Reply:If you try to brush your cats teeth I hope you have a really good insurance policy and a BIG supply of bandaids.


Let the vet do it. It will be much less stressful on your cat, not to mention a lot less painful for you.


Good luck.
Reply:you can do it but you have to use cat toothpaste and toothbrush but before you do this call your vet to see if she/he says what to do either come to her/he or u do it
Reply:As long as you go to a repuatable vet then you should have no problem with your cat getting put under for the cleaning...





I couldn't have it done to my cat ONLY because he was 20 years old the last time he went to the vet...





Before that I used a finger brush and chicken flavored toothpaste.





If you want to do it at home then take a pillow case, cut the corner off, stick your cat in the sack, and brush like that... Then he can't get away...
Reply:I try to brush them with a tiny toothbrush and enzymatic toothpaste for cats that supposedly is a yummy malt flavor, but I mostly get a whining squirming cat with malty toothpaste all over his face.


No biting though, hes a good boy. ^^





I have not gotten the teeth cleaning for a cat before- but I did not trust my previous vet.


If your vet is a good critter doctor, I'd go with their recommendation.
Reply:I apply PetzLife gel to my cat's teeth, but I don't actually brush them. My cat has not had a scaling yet (she is about 3 years old).
Reply:I give my cats raw chicken necks every other day.





I buy them in the supermarket or butcher 2 kilos at a time, repackage them at home into plastic bags with 4 necks and freeze them all. Then every other day I grab a plastic bag in the morning and thaw it, by the time I come home from work and call my 2 cats ("chicken necks"), they are nearly knocking me over with excitement.





Chewing on the bones is cleaning their teeth naturally, they get a good supply of calcium and it is much cheaper (and more pleasant for the cats) than the vet (or brushing).





I do always make sure I am there when they eat them, just in case a bone sticks in their throat. I have been feeding them the necks for 10+ years and it has never happened, but you know - just in case....The vet is in total agreement with my solution (other than that he misses out on income).