Volume 13 | Issue 1 Article 10

1951 A Canine Dental R. L. Gillespie Iowa State College

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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iowa State University Veterinarian by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. was fully extended from anterior to the area of necrosis was found on its root. scrotum to the distal end of the sheath The right eye was manually closed and but would not protrude from the pre­ a pack soaked in 2 percent boric acid puce. solution was bandaged in place. The dog The diagnosis was phimosis and under­ was then placed in a kennel. development of the penis. The owner The next day the dog was very de­ indicated he did not wish to waste the pressed, had a pulse rate of 200 per min­ time necessary to determine whether or ute and a temperature of 103.6°F. not the penis would develop to normal On the fourth day the dog was some­ size so the bull was taken to market. what more alert, but a brownish stained The etiology of the multiple pin point saliva having a necrotic odor was noted adhesions could not be determined, but coming from the mouth. Also an area of it is presumed to have. been of an in­ crepitation was noted between the eye fectious nature and having occurred dur­ and the ear. A speculum was again in­ ing the pre-puberal development of the serted in the mouth and an abscess was bull. found draining into the mouth through D. W. Clausen '51 the alveolus of the infected tooth. After infiltrating the skin with 2 percent pro­ caine hydrochloride, the crepitant swell­ A Canine Dental Abscess. On Oct. ing between the eye and the ear was 1, 1950, a 10-year-old male Fox incised. A sanguinous, purulent exudate Terrier was presented at Stange Memorial similar to that found in the mouth drained Clinic with a history of having refused freely from the wound. to eat for several days. A clinical exam­ A differential blood count was made at ination revealed severe pain when the this time and revealed a total white count mouth was opened, but no cause could be of over 14,800. About 7,000 of these were determined. Since the dog was owned stab cells and about 5,000 were mature locally, it was sent home with instructions neutrophils. The dog was given 300,000 that it be returned the next day if there O.U. of procaine hydrochloride penicillin was no improvement. in oil and wax and returned to the ken­ The dog was again presented on the nel. following morning with an extensive, On the following day the dog was alert edematous swelling of the right side of enough to resent handling and had eaten the head, involving the eye to such an some food for the first time. The pulse extent that it could not be closed. The rate had dropped to 144 and the tempera­ nictitating membrane and the ventral ture to 102.6°F. A had opened conjunctiva were edematous and the opposite the third upper premolar and latter everted. The right upper lip was was draining profusely. The surgical in­ pendulous and about three times the cision and the alveolus were also drain­ normal thickness due to the edema. The ing. Soon afterwards the alveolus stopped mucous membrane of the mouth appeared draining, but another fistula broke normal, but the dog showed severe pain through the skin at the medial canthus of when an attempt was made to open the the right eye. mouth. On Oct. 19, 1950, the dog was dis­ One grain of morphine was given to charged. At this time the cornea of the the dog as a combination sedative and right eye was cloudy, probably due to analgesic. The dog was then placed on damage received in the period when the the operating table and a speculum in­ eye could not be closed. The surgical serted in the mouth. After a careful wound and the fistula opposite the third examination of the oral cavity, it was de­ upper premolar were still draining. How­ termined that the upper right second ever, the dog had regained his appetite, molar was slightly loosened in its alveo­ was in excellent spirits and had a normal lus. After removal of this tooth, a small temperature and pulse.

36 Iowa State College Veterinarian When last seen by the writer, Oct. 29, small intestine. Sanguinous fluid filled 1950, the surgical wound and the fistula the abdominal cavity and the anterior had healed, but another fistula just ven­ portion of the small intestine. tral to the eye had broken out. The J. Q. Bell '51 cornea was cloudy and sight in the right eye is probably permanently lost. It is believed that in this case, the cause of the abscess was a defective Cystic Calculi in a Spitz. On tooth. A low grade entered by 141 this route and slowly developed to the Sept. 9, 1950, a Spitz dog was ad­ point where it caused pain when the mitted to Stange Memorial Clinic. It had jaws were moved. Then as it broke the history of being unable to urinate. through the bone into the soft tissue on Further history was that these attacks the side of the face and head, it set up had been coming on for some time and a strong irritation causing the severe that during this last one the dog had not edema noted on the second day of exam­ urinated for two days. Urethral calculi ination. The eye damage was only sec­ were suspected. ondary being due to a fixation of the A human catheter, French size No.8, eyelids by the great amount of edema. was introduced into the urethra until a R. L.Gillespie '51 solid object was met which was just posterior to the os penis. The dog was fluroscoped and several calculi were seen in the bladder, and one fairly large one was seen about 1/:! in. posterior to the Intestinal Strangulation ina os penis. The bladder was full and dis­ Dachshund. On June 24, 1950, a 2 tended, occupying most of the abdominal year-old male, smooth-haired Dachshund cavity. The dog was x-rayed to more was admitted to the Stange Memorial accurately determine the number and Clinic for treatment. The history given size of the calculi in the bladder. The by the owner was that the dog had been x-ray showed quite clearly at least nine off feed and vomiting frequently for at calculi approximately % to % in. in least three days. diameter and one large posterior The symptoms shown were dehydra­ to the os penis. Immediate was tion, slight incoordination of the rear legs, decided on. some congestion of the conjunctiva, fetid The dog was given pentobarbital sodium odor on the breath, slight congestion of intravenously to deep surgical anesthesia. the buccal membranes and a temperature The entire abdominal area from the um­ of 100°F. bilicus to the pubis was shaved, scrubbed It was known that the dog came from with soap and water, defatted with ether a community in which had and sprayed with isopropyl alcohol. Be­ been diagnosed in the past few weeks and fore operating, an alligator forceps was a tentative diagnosis of leptospriosis was introduced into the external urethral made. opening and up the urethra until it met A daily dose of 400,000 O.U. of pro­ the calculus. The calculus was grasped, caine hydrochloride penicillin in distilled but it was too hard to break down in water was given intramuscularly for five order to extract it by this means. An days. The patient seemed somewhat im­ incision was then made down to the proved on the third day but thereafter calculus in the urethra and the calculus became progresively worse and expired was removed. No sutures were placed in on June 29. this incision. Postmortem findings revealed an in­ A longitudinal inC1SlOn was made ternal strangulation of a portion of the through the abdominal wall 1 in. lateral jejunum through the great mesentery to the os penis on the right side of the resulting in necrosis and of the median line. The bladder was brought

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