Moe crack his teeth, sigh. Help

So my silly Moe crack his teeth. Don't know why, don't know how. I just feel bad for him, must be very painful.

Few days ago, I saw his teeth has some serious tartar. So I try to use some dental cleaning tool to clean it. Before I do it, I noticed part of the tooth is missing and I can see some pink stuff inside. Today, when I clean his tartar, I confirm there is a hole in his tooth. And I can use the dental tool to touch his tooth nerve. Sigh, it must be super painful...

Moe is only 5, so I hope he don't have to remove the damage tooth. Do you know if the tooth is patchable? And how much it roughly cost?

thanks a lot!!!!!!

Vic

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Permalink Reply by Linda on February 11, 2014 at 6:50am

I have no idea if it's salvageable or the cost but he needs to see the vet ASAP. Dental issues with dogs (and cats) are just as dangerous to their hearts as it is to humans.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa and Franklin! on February 11, 2014 at 10:57am

Many times it is easier and more cost effective to just remove the tooth. Dogs do great without teeth and it doesn't slow them down. Franklin had one of his big molars removed a few years ago and will actually still chew bones on that side. A dental specialist can fix the tooth, do a root canal or crown it, but the cost is considerably more and often the upkeep of a crown or root canal is tougher because they will usually require more than one anesthetic procedure. I would just have a full dental done and have the tooth removed at that time. One thing people don't realize is if he has a ton of tartar on the surface you can see there is often a lot of dental disease underneath the gum which is where a majority of the issues occur. Its not enough to just scrape off the visible tartar, under the gum line needs cleaned as well. This is why non-anesthetic dentals are such a huge problem in the vet community, they mask existing dental disease until the poor dog or cats teeth are rotting out of their head because there were never x-rays or cleaning under the gums. He needs to see a vet sooner rather than later because this is extremely painful when pulp is exposed and it poses a serious infection risk.

As to the how, do you give him nylabones? antlers? marrow bones? cow hooves? anything like that? The number one cause of broken teeth in dogs is from nylabones.