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Periodontal Disease: The Scourge of the Stabled Horse
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In the early 1900s, when there were over 100,000 working horses at livery in London, Colyer described periodontal disease as “the scourge of the horse” [1]. It is true that equine periodontal disease is clinically more apparent in susceptible horses when they are stabled rather than when outdoors at grass, but the reason for this is unclear. When indoors, horses eat preserved forage such as hay or silage (haylage), which usually has larger stalks and contains more cellulose material than grass. When such forage becomes impacted into periodontal spaces, especially into diastemata between cheek teeth, it takes longer to decompose than grass and thus is likely to cause more prolonged inflammation of the periodontal tissues ...
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Dixon, P. M. (2015) “Periodontal Disease: The Scourge of the Stabled Horse”, BEVA - Annual Congress - Liverpool, 2015. Available at: https://www.ivis.org/library/beva/beva-annual-congress-liverpool-2015/periodontal-disease-scourge-of-stabled-horse (Accessed: 17 June 2024).
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