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Onelanerode	Jun 22 2009, 10:58 AM
Thomas H. Cruise! Posts: 633 Group: Members Member #130 Joined: January 7, 2007	TBF, those sound like eruption cysts ... normal in a young horse and generally symmetrical and not painful. My mare is too old for eruption cysts, and besides, all her permanent teeth are in (verified through x-rays). The vet did diagnose another tooth rooth infection. So, another 30 days of antibiotics. At least mare is more polite about her meds this time. I think she's realized that resistance is futile ... the talented BM is going to get them in her somehow, lol! An infection is not the same thing as an abscess, but an infection can lead to an abscess if it's not treated. Both times we've caught these infections early. The first one responded to antibiotics, and so far, at least, it looks like the second one is as well; the swelling is no longer painful. My vet has been unduly excited by these ... she said she hadn't seen an emergent tooth root infection before my mare. She only gets them when the infection has progressed, the tooth root has abscessed and the tooth needs to be extracted. She did say that from the x-rays, it looks like this infection was caught even earlier than the first one, as the radiolucency around the tooth root isn't as vivid as the first set of x-rays on the first tooth, and the black "space" surrounding the root isn't as wide or pronounced. I'm hoping this second infection will also continue to respond to the antibiotics and we will not need to have that premolar extracted.


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