Meanwhile, back at the clinic...

This week at work has been better than last week, when I had to euthanize 4 old patients in the space of two days. Three of them were gut wrenching: 14 and 15 year old dogs who were veritable family members. It was so sad to see them go. The other case was an old cat with painful cancer. It was tragic, too, but since the owners elected not to be present, not as emotionally straining.

This week I got to do one of my favorite things: save a broken tooth by doing a root canal. Here's the fractured tooth before:


And here it is after:

Aesthetically it looks nicer, but if I just covered it up with bonding material and made it look pretty, eventually it would rot. What you can't see from the outside is more important.

Here is an endodontic file in the long canal:

And here is the root canal finished. All the pulp inside the tooth is removed and replaced with an inert material.


Finally remember this?

I spayed a dog, and when she vomited after her preanesthetic injection, she brought up these panties. Last week, my colleague removed 6+ pair of panties from her -- unfortunately, surgically.