[en] Dental issues are impacting many horses. Under different types, they can provoke lesions in the oral cavity that will be translated into clinical signs on the horse. Those symptoms will make the owners contact veterinarians. Another frequent cause of calling veterinarians is the colic: potentially severe abdominal pain. The related symptoms are well known and feared by the owners. Different types of colic have been studied in order to search for the causes and risk factors. Several studies have indicated that one type of colic, impactions, would be more frequent when the subject is presenting dental abnormalities, whereas some others deny this hypothesis. Two studies are undertaken in the framework of this end-of-study work. The first one reveals that the horses affected with large colon impaction have a recent dental care history. The second study indicates that horses with displacement of colon are affected by an important count of dental abnormalities.
Disciplines :
Veterinary medicine & animal health
Author, co-author :
Loublier, Clémence ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. clinique des animaux de compagnie et des équidés (DCA) > Dép. clinique des animaux de compagnie et des équidés (DCA)
Language :
French
Title :
Dental abnormalities, a risk factor in the food impactions in horses
Alternative titles :
[fr] Les anomalies dentaires, facteur de risque d'impaction alimentaire chez le cheval
Defense date :
2016
Number of pages :
51
Institution :
ULiège - Université de Liège
Degree :
Master Médecin Vétérinaire
Promotor :
Fraipont, Audrey ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'Enseignement et de Clinique des Equidés (DCE)
Commentary :
Purpose of the work: The present end-of-study work’s primary objective is the realization of a synthesis carried out from scientific literature about the influence of dental abnormalities on the colic, specially the simple large intestine colon impactions in horses. It is intended to recall the different types of dental abnormalities and food impactions, their impacts on the horse’s health as well as a possible link between them. The second part comprises the realization of a retrospective study. The objective is to find whether or not a correlation between the lack of dental care and the prevalence of large colon impaction or colon displacement exist.
