{"id":4705,"date":"2011-04-21T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T14:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2011-04-21T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T14:24:13","slug":"getting-to-the-root-of-equine-dental-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/getting-to-the-root-of-equine-dental-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to the root of equine dental disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Horse owners are being warned to\u00a0<strong>keep a close eye on their horses&#8217; teeth<\/strong> after research highlighted that bacteria may play a bigger role than was previously suspected in equine dental disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alistair Cox from Edinburgh&#8217;s Royal (Dick)\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horseandhound.co.uk\/classifieds\/search.aspx?__EVENTTARGET=&amp;__EVENTARGUMENT=&amp;inp_clientIP=209.251.196.62&amp;inp_uniqueID=n1om5l3l44bieeqgkshmpj45&amp;referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.horseandhound.co.uk%2F&amp;c=&amp;inp_a=&amp;inp_b=&amp;inp_c=&amp;inp_d=&amp;inp_docref=&amp;keywordlist=&amp;taxo=TRADEX&amp;inp_keywords=vet&amp;submit1=Search&amp;dl0=&amp;dl1=&amp;dl2=&amp;postcode=&amp;distance=10&amp;__VIEWSTATE=%2FwEPDwUKMTM4MDMzMzI4NGRk&amp;hiddenInputToUpdateATBuffer_CommonToolkitScripts=1\">Vet<\/a><\/span> school found that\u00a0<strong>60% of horses over the age of 15 have &#8220;periodontal&#8221; disease<\/strong> (infection of the structures that hold the tooth in place).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although bacteria are known to be a cause of periodontal disease in humans, cats and dogs, their significance in horses had been less clear. Mechanical factors, such as food being packed between the horse&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horseandhound.co.uk\/horse-care-index\/general\/tag\/Teeth\">teeth<\/a><\/span> had been considered the primary cause of decay. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horseandhound.co.uk\/news\/397\/306968.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horse owners are being warned to\u00a0keep a close eye on their horses&#8217; teeth after research highlighted that bacteria may play a bigger role than was previously suspected in equine dental disease. Alistair Cox from Edinburgh&#8217;s Royal (Dick)\u00a0Vet school found that\u00a060% of horses over the age of 15 have &#8220;periodontal&#8221; disease (infection of the structures that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4707,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}