Mouth Injuries in Horses
- Topics: Article, Dentistry, Muscle and Joint Problems
If you watched Dutch dressage rider Adelinde Cornelissen’s performance with her mount Jerich Parzival at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, you know the pair were disqualified after the horse bit the tip of his tongue.
While the injury was minor, even a small amount of blood can turn a horse’s foamy saliva an alarming shade of red.
Perhaps you’ve gone out to pasture to catch your horse and discovered blood oozing from his mouth. You can’t see where the blood is coming from, so you call your veterinarian for a more extensive examination. He might have sustained a mouth or tongue injury such as a puncture from a foreign object, an accident with a bit, or he could have an object jammed between the teeth.
Mouth injuries can happen in any horse, whether in elite competition or in our own stables and pastures. We’ll discuss these types of injuries in detail here
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