DENTISTRY FOR CATTLE.
Dentistry for cattle is far more necessary than is generally understood. There'are three temporary or milk premolar (grinder) teeth above and below in each jaw, or 12 in all. They are usually present at birth. The first and second of these temporary teeth arc replaced In' permanent ones at from 1 rear and 9 months to 2 years and 3 months, and the third temporary premolar at 2 years and 3 months to 2 years and 9 'months, ft is quite common. however, for the shells or crowns of these temporary premolars to bo tardy in shedding or to lodge between the gums and cheeks. Where this occurs, particularly when cattle arc from 1 year and 9 months to 2 years and (> months old, they appear to have tuberculosis or some other debilitating disease. They are hide-hound, tucked up. thin, thriftless, listless, sluggish, lack appetite, and sometimes scour profusely. When such symptoms arc noticed the teeth should at once he examined, and the lodged milk tooth crowns removed with forceps.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3138, 9 October 1922, Page 2
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