The dental visit
- Oral examination
- A complete hands-on exam before any work is done — teeth, gums, tongue and cheeks — because most dental disease hides where a look from outside the mouth can’t see it.
- Performance floats
- Hand floats and power floats, both — and a full range of dental equipment behind them, so the tool is matched to the mouth in front of us. Floating to balance, not just to smooth: sharp enamel points removed and the bite shaped for bit comfort and even chewing, in a horse that has a job to do.
- Corrective dentistry
- Hooks, ramps, waves and malocclusions corrected on a plan — staged work that brings the mouth back toward balance instead of grinding it flat in a single visit.
- Extractions, in-house
- Wolf teeth, molars and premolars — whether the reason is age, wear or an unfortunate fracture. Retained caps that won’t shed are handled at the same visit. If a tooth has to come out, it comes out here: no referral, no second trip.
Signs a horse is due
- Dropping feed
- Quidding, chewing with wads of hay, dropping grain, or tilting the head to eat — the mouth is saying it hurts to chew.
- Losing condition
- Weight or topline slipping despite enough feed often traces back to a mouth that can’t process what it’s given.
- Bit trouble
- Fighting the bit, tossing the head, or a sudden change under saddle — check the mouth before you blame the training.
- Odor or discharge
- A bad smell from the mouth, or discharge from one nostril, earns an exam — not a wait-and-see.
- Simply due
- Most working horses benefit from an oral exam about once a year; a performance horse’s mouth can need attention more often.
Past the teeth — TMJ & the poll
- TMJ evaluation
- The temporomandibular joint takes the force of every chew. When the bite is off, the TMJ often is too — jaw movement, symmetry and pain response are assessed as part of the dental workup.
- TMJ joint injections
- Where the TMJ itself is a pain source, joint injections can assist the correction — settling the joint so the mouth and jaw can come back into balance.
- Poll chiropractic
- Dental imbalance shows up at the poll: stiffness, soreness and resistance through the bridle. Chiropractic assessment and adjustment of the poll, driven by the dental findings, is part of the same picture.
- One record
- Dental findings feed straight into the horse’s sports medicine, lameness and nutrition picture at Oak Grove — one clinic, one record, no starting over somewhere else.
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Serving horse owners across northeastern Oklahoma — Coweta, Broken Arrow, Wagoner, Tulsa, Bixby, Jenks, Owasso, Claremore, Muskogee — and welcoming haul-in clients from Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas.
