Mongolian pastoralists were trying to remove troublesome teeth from horses’ mouths almost 3,200 years ago, making those mobile herders the earliest known practitioners of horse dentistry, a new study ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Horse owners and equine dentists are fighting to keep an age old practice legal. The people who work on horse teeth, also known as "floaters," now face criminal charges for their ...

More than 3,000 years ago on the open steppes of Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, nomadic herders were experimenting with equine dentistry. However, the practice did a lot more than just alleviate horses ...

Oregon lawmakers have abandoned a proposed task force on horse dentistry to improve the likelihood of non-veterinarians being allowed to conduct livestock pregnancy checks. The two issues became ...

SOUTHWEST RANCHES, Fla. – Not many dentists make house calls, but Julian Ocampo isn't your average dentist. Ocampo is a horse dentist, a fast growing profession in the equine industry. "A while ago, I ...

LEVERETT –Ten-Ten, a thoroughbred that used to be a racehorse, was struggling to eat, alternating eating with breaks and taking three quarters of an hour to chew and swallow a couple pounds of grain. ...

That you realize there are some very peculiar, vaguely insane jobs in sports. Then, there’s this job. “We have,” Rudy Magana says, “horse manure in our veins.” Some might argue that pursuing a career ...

SALEM — The shortage of veterinarians in rural Oregon has spurred a proposal to allow trained non-veterinarians to perform pregnancy checks on livestock and dentistry on horses. “This is an attempt to ...

Her dental tools lie on a folding table. Among them are power tools commonly used in carpentry. For the procedure, she wears a surgical scrub top, jeans and work boots. Goggles protect her eyes, and a ...

Thank you for visiting our page. Chenoweth Equine Dentistry specializes in providing expert equine dental services to all breeds of horses, donkeys, mules, ponies, and zebras. Whether you only have ...

All of us understand the importance of making that appointment for our annual check-up with the dentist. But how much thought, as horse owners, do we give to our horses' dental needs? Certainly a ...

A Canadian man is facing a lifetime ban on practicing veterinary medicine after accusations he's been performing unauthorized horse dentistry. The Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association (MVMA) is ...