First Opinion
Referrals
Dentistry

 

First Opinion

First opinion consultations are carried out at our hospital by prior appointment.

The full range of diagnostic services are available use including the trot up area and all weather surface school for lameness investigations.

 

Referrals

We are happy to accept a wide range of surgical and medical referrals at our Oakham Hospital. Cases may be referred directly or via your local vet for a specific procedure, or for investigation of the problem. Please contact our equine reception team, or our vets by telephone or e-mail for advice on specific cases.

Range of cases:

Booking in
•This can be done by the referring vet or client, via telephone to our equine reception team, on 01572722647.

What to expect

• Cases for investigation will be booked for a consultation with one of our vets, generally in the afternoon. Preliminary investigations and treatments are generally carried out in the presence of the owner/trainer/rider to enable choices to be made about treatment options and costs to be explained. It is our policy to organise the hospital schedule such that potential surgery cases can have theatre time ‘ear marked' for the following day. This avoids clients having to make any extra journeys and ensures that the treatment proceed as quickly and effectively as possible.
• Surgical cases will be admitted the day before the procedure, wherever possible they should be ‘let down' and have their shoes removed.

Visiting
• We do allow clients to visit their horses when in the hospital, we ask that clients report to reception on arrival, visiting is restricted to office hours in the week and at specific times at the weekend.

Reporting
• Regular telephone reports on the progress of inpatients are given to clients, at a frequency dependant on the specific case.
• All inpatients progress reports are updated on our computer system daily, so that our reception team can advice clients that telephone in.
• For surgical cases we endeavour to contact all clients by telephone as soon as their horse has recovered from anaesthesia to advice on the progress of their condition.

How to pay
Our policy on referral cases is to bill the client direct; however for new clients we request credit card details as security for payment. We encourage payment at the time of treatment or collection of the horse. For specific payment terms contact our reception team.

	Black thorn embedded in the corneal of a horse's eye.		Foreign material removed from fetlock.
	Defect left eye after the thorn removal. A catheter was placed below the lower lid to allow continous medication of the eye.		Appearance of fetlock after initial treatment. surgery was not required in this case as the stake had not penetrated the fetlock capsule.
	Appearance of the eye 4 months later. The remaining scar was nonpainful and did not affect vision.		Severe laceration to the lower eyelid before surgery.
	Infected wound over the front of the carpus being treated with a surgical joint flush.		Appearance of eyelid after surgery.
	Injury sustained to fetlock whilst out jumping. The foreign material was left in place before referral to allow accurate assessment of the wound using radiography and ultrasonography.

 

Dentistry

 

Regular quality dental work is important for maintaining your horse's health and performance and can prevent bigger problems in the future.

There are many advantages in having your horses teeth attended to by a qualified veterinary surgeon. Most horses only require a 20 minute treatment to remove share enamel points on an annual basis.
Our prices are very competitive to those of a fully trained equine dental technician. Please phone the hospital for our current price plan.

If you decide not to use a vet to attend to your horse's teeth, we would strongly advise that you choose a registered equine dental technician (EDT). Refer to www.beva.org.uk for a list of approved EDT's.

Any damage to your horse's mouth caused by an unregistered ‘dentist' is unlikely to be covered by your insurance.

 

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	Excessive wear due to vice of wall grinding. The horse continuously rubs its teeth along the wall.		Wolf tooth and rostral hook present on 1st upper molar.
	Incisor wear due to crib biting.		Parrot mouth congenital abnormality.