Floating Teeth

[Bonnie M]

Had the dentist out earlier and vet to get two of my horses' teeth floated...can't afford all of them at once....not with it costing almost $100.00 per horse :shock:

Is this the norm? How much do you spend to have a floating done? This dentist uses power tools, not only the dental float.

My old riding instructor use to float everyone for me for $20 each, so this is definately a shock! Of course he just used the regular dental float and they weren't sedated.

[appyday]

I just did 8 and she is coming back later this week to do Misty...it was $125-150 per horse.. :cry:

[DSDECKERT]

Bonnie - Dixie Bauer does manual floats for $75.00 per horse....if you need her # let me know, she's great.

I'm not a huge fan of power tools, I've seen some pretty severe damage!

[Terry Wallace]

here it "starts" at $65 and goes up with any molar or incisor that needs to be taken down... usually ends up being abiut $120.00

Most I ever paid for a float was $345.00 that was a total mouth planing on a worst-case scenario horse.

All the above were power floats with sedation. I prefer power-floating...but by a qualified Vet. ;-)

[Bonnie M]

Wow 8 of them Appy! I am going to stagger mine throughout the year.

And Terry, $345! Must have been a lot of work!

I had my vet do a couple of my geldings in the past, but he isn't doing it anymore. He has this equine dentist come and do them, but one of his vet partners comes along to sedate the horses. I don't think the vet orignally charged that much when he did it himself.

Yes, Deb, send me that number if you can. I will check her out.

[SandyMM]

Just had one done here, manual float - which I prefer, for $65 - price adjusted according to amount of sedation used (no speculum).... This was a new vet for us. Our previous vet used a speculum and no sedation. He charged $85. Both of these vets - one relatively young and the other many years experience - prefer manual floating. The older vet actually _likes_ floating teeth and said if he ever retired from full-time vetting, he would still continue to do teeth.

The reason the younger vet did not like the speculum was that a friend had gotten slammed in the head by a horse with a speculum and nearly died. I'm thinking getting slammed in the head by a horse's head could have put him in the hospital regardless.... :shock:

[Terry Wallace]

About two hours worth Bonnie..that price included a blood-work up, to make sure he could survive sedation....that was $45.00 of the price.

It pretty much changed the life of the horse too. :D

[macadoo]

My friend is a horse dentist...every year we go to Brooksville for her to do teeth...I think she charges about 40 or 50 per horse..no sedation.. and no power tools...Of course if she has to pull a tooth or something extra it is a little more...we go down around March...e-mail me your info and I'll give it to her...

[Abejita]

Our Dentists is 50 a head ,That covers a basic float any caps .wolf teeth etc that need removed He only uses power tools to do things like incisor reductions (had to do that on a 25 year old.He does not like the use of Power tools unless necessary.I do believe he does charge us a little less as we were one of his first customers..

[CarolU]

My vet does mine. I insist on sedation. They usually do manual floating but do use power tools if a tooth needs to be taken down a lot. The base price is $75 a horse.

[Terri]

I prefer the horse dentist do it. I had the vet once, he insisted on sedating everybody which I was not happy with. The dentist comes, no sedation on anyone. He does a good job and it is $60 per. But then again none of my guys have anything "unusual" going on.