How to Promote Healthy Dog Teeth

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Elise McMahon for Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about canine dental health care. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at wwww.canineheadstart.com. So we are going to be talking in this video series how to promote good healthy teeth in your dogs. One thing you want to realize is you want to really start from puppy hood. I have a puppy somewhere behind me to adulthood. One of the ways you can do this is by feeding good food to your dogs. Similar to humans what we eat affects our teeth is going to be the same thing with dogs. So probably most people out there feed Kibbles. It is a hard round baked or extruded dog food and if you are going to feed Kibbles you want to think about whether it is good nutritional and complete for your dog. Also we are going to be thinking about how it can benefit their teeth. There are some options out there. Most people assume when they feed a hard food that it is going to automatically be cleaning the teeth. Not necessarily the case. I am going to show you some examples here of different Kibbles. This is actually a couple pieces of puppy chow. As you can see it is fairly small. Where do we see most of the tartar on the adult dog teeth? We saw most of the tartar on the canines. Now if you take a look at Tai eating a piece of Kibble, here’s a piece for Ursa, they are really eating that from the back. They are grinding it in the back. They might pick it up with their incisors but a piece of food goes pretty quickly into the back. It is not hitting those canines at all. All right. Not that it’s not a good food, feed it to the puppy. Here is another one. Slightly larger chunks, you can see. Give one of these to the dogs. Give one to the puppy. Again it is really not hitting the canines very much. So there is a company that makes oral care dog food. Look at the size of that piece of Kibble. Lot larger. When the dogs crunch through it the idea is that it is supposed to be cleaning the teeth. This is probably better for the dog’s teeth and the small ones. It is not really going to clean your dog’s teeth. Other options are biscuits so a nice size dog biscuit. When they crunch through it again it is supposed to be going up along to the gum, massaging the dog’s gum. The idea is it cleaning the teeth. Not probably going to do a whole lot of teeth cleaning but as long as you are feeding a good healthy diet it can’t hurt the teeth. "