- Dental CareGood dental hygiene and oral health are one of the most important aspects of your pets’ well-being. Our goal is to show you how to maintain your pet’s teeth and how to best utilize preventative food, chews, toys, and brushing to keep the teeth and gums healthy. With good prevention, expect less anesthesia, extractions, and, most importantly, painful infected teeth.
- VaccinationThe basic standard of good preventative medicine involves protecting your pets from diseases and maintaining a healthy life style. We will assess each pets’ risk factors for exposure to deadly diseases and recommend the approach that best suits your pets’ lifestyle and risk. It may be different for different pets. Prevention is the key to a long and healthy life for your pet, and the adage “An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure” is so true!
- Nutritional CounselingPain management does not start and stop in the surgery suite. A pain-free lifestyle involves many treatments for chronic pain, as well. Treatments such as acupuncture, laser therapy, neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), medications, supplements, exercise, weight loss, and environmental enrichment are all involved in a balanced pain-free life for your pet.
- Comprehensive ExaminationThis initial visit will consist of a physical exam that allows for a Traditional Chinese pattern diagnosis. A consult exam will address topics like tongue color, pulse, coat, skin, temperature sensitivities, energy level, personality type, etc. This exam is in-depth and usually lasts about 40 minutes to an hour. Often times needles are not used for the initial consult visit, but this is not always the case.
- Parasites Treatment and ControlOur diagnostic lab equipment allows us to evaluate complete blood counts and biochemical profiles within 20 minutes of the blood draw. When your pet is sick, time counts! We can also perform a urinalysis, intestinal parasite exams, fecal cytologies, and fungal cultures in our lab. Our doctors review fine needle aspirates from masses to determine whether or not the slides should be sent to a boarded veterinary pathologist for a definitive diagnosis.
- Pain Management
- Diabetes Treatment
- Thyroid Disease TreatmentOur team can provide diagnostics, treatment, and complete care for many common complex diseases such as Addison’s (hypoadrenocorticism), diabetes, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, immune-mediated diseases, Cushing’s disease (hyperadrenocorticism), lymphosarcoma (also known as lymphoma) to name a few. While we are not board-certified internal medical specialists, many of these diseases can be readily diagnosed and treated by general practitioners.
- Veterinary Surgery
- Laboratory ServicesRadiographs (x-rays) are usually the first diagnostic technique that is used to assess the size and position of organs or masses and the quality of boney structures of the chest, abdomen, long bones, and joints. Digital radiology is much quicker, and by adjusting the technique on the computer, the patient and staff exposure to radiation is minimized. We may use our ultrasound unit to diagnose and monitor the internal architecture of the organs such as the liver, gallbladder, kidneys, stomach, spleen, pancreas, heart, small intestine, colon, adrenal glands, urinary bladder, and prostate. Along with certain blood work, our ultrasound unit allows us to monitor the treatment of internal medicine diseases. We also use ultrasound to diagnose and monitor pregnancies.
- X-Ray