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Dental Vet

Dental Vet provides advanced and routine equine dental services to horses in Perth, Western Australia.
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Our team of experienced veterinarians and veterinary nurses provide the highest level of dental care, allowing your horse to reach their full potential. Dr Kirsten Jackson is based in Perth but travels throughout Western Australia treating routine and advanced equine dental conditions. With a strong riding and competition background as well as her veterinary experience she is able to treat the who

le horse and understands the pressures placed on the horse while being ridden. Your horse's comfort is her primary concern, during and after treatment. Whether it is a much loved retired horse or a top competition horse, they will not be getting the most out of their feed or reaching their full potential if they are in pain. Regular preventative dentistry is essential to treat or prevent pain. With a portable crush and the use of systemic and local pain relief when needed, your horse will always be comfortable and more serious dental conditions can often be prevented.

18/06/2026

🐴 Gastroscopy Day – Wednesday 12th August 🩺

Our next Gastroscopy Day is just around the corner, and bookings are now open!

If you've been considering having your horse scoped for gastric ulcers (EGUS), this is the perfect opportunity. Our dedicated Gastroscopy Days are heavily discounted, making definitive diagnosis more accessible and affordable.

Gastroscopy remains the gold standard for accurately diagnosing equine gastric ulcer syndrome, allowing us to develop an appropriate treatment plan tailored to your horse.

📅 Wednesday 12th August
💰 $160 including sedation
📋 Report and treatment plan included
🏡 Overnight agistment for fasting available on request (limited places)
📍 440 Nicholson Rd, Forrestdale

📧 Bookings are essential and places fill quickly, so secure your spot today! Email us at [email protected]

16/06/2026

We have just uploaded our latest blog post on 'Why horses resist the bit' so head over to the website to read more about it. We upload new blog posts to the website monthly and try to choose topics that people will find interesting. If you have any topics that you would like us to cover, please pop a comment down below and we will see what we can do!

Other recent blogs we have done include why we use sedation and what actually happens during a Dental Vet comprehensive oral examination and treatment (hint, it's a bit more than just rasping off some sharp bits!).

We have a treasure trove of information sheets on common conditions and blog posts on topical issues designed to help you make more informed decisions for your beautiful horses. Might as well learn something if you are doing some scrolling!
https://dentalvet.com.au/articles/

15/06/2026

✨ Meet the Team: Meg Burns ✨

Meg Burns is a veterinary assistant and friendly face helping keep the Dental Vet team running smoothly. With nearly 10 years of experience in the equine industry and a lifelong love of horses, Meg brings calm, care and practical expertise to every appointment.

Before joining Dental Vet, Meg worked as a saddle fitter, developing a strong understanding of equine anatomy and the connection between comfort, performance and wellbeing. Her passion for preventative care and equine health ultimately led her into the world of equine dentistry.

Meg especially loves helping young horses have positive first dental experiences and seeing the difference proactive dental care can make to a horse’s comfort and quality of life. 🐴

Known around the clinic for her humour, reliability and love of donuts, Meg spends her spare time caring for her own busy crew of two horses, a dog and three cats.

12/06/2026

🦷🐴 Pop Quiz Friday 🐴🦷

Here we have photos of a 'normal' and an 'abnormal' example of a structure. What is the structure we are concerned about in the second image and why are we concerned i.e. what are the consequences that this can lead to?

11/06/2026

Lovely evening last night presenting some of our research and cases to the (human!) Australian Society of Endodontology. So lovely to chat to colleagues with a different perspective and who have many decades of experience in this field! There is always new technology coming out so chatting and seeing what can be adapted for us to use is invaluable.

We would never have embarked on this journey of developing a new material for root canal therapy in horses without the guidance and knowledge of 2 incredible human endodontists (Dr William Ha and Dr George Bogen). Their knowledge and generosity to share it has allowed us to help many horses now with this technology which never would have materialised without their support.

A huge thank you to ASEWA for putting on a wonderful evening last night and allowing this little veterinarian to join and contribute. I'm not sure that anyone learnt anything clinically relevant but there were a lot of questions so I think people found it interesting! 😝

10/06/2026

Calculus removal on the lower canines in this lovely patient.

Both lower canines had a large build of calculus on them since our last dental appointment around 1 year ago. Food was even trapped between the calculus and the gingiva and was rotting, causing even more irritation to the gum than just the calclus alone.

It is always super important to remove the calculus to be able to properly examine the tooth underneath. Early signs of EOTRH (for example resorptive lesions) or an abnormal pulp may be hidden and not seen. In the second image, after the calculus was removed, you may be able to see a suspect lesion on the gum line that required further investigation, which was previously hidden. (Yes these are two different teeth, the 304 and 404 are pictured).

08/06/2026

✨ Meet the Team: Dr Tory Kö-Peternelj ✨

Dr Tory Kö-Peternelj is an experienced equine veterinarian at Dental Vet, leading patient care across all aspects of equine dentistry. With a strong focus on detailed oral assessments, advanced diagnostics and client education, Tory is passionate about improving the comfort and wellbeing of every horse she treats.

Since joining the Dental Vet team in 2021, Tory has continued to expand her expertise in advanced dental care, achieving Membership of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (MANZCVS) in Equine Dentistry in 2024.

Tory has a special interest in diagnosing and treating periodontal disease and EOTRH, and she has a well-known soft spot for donkeys, who quickly become her favourites at the clinic. 🫏

Outside of work, Tory enjoys travelling, staying active and spending time with her dog, Arlo. A lifelong horse rider, she also loves riding her Percheron cross, Cruise, whenever she can.

05/06/2026

✨✨Pop Quiz Friday is back! ✨✨

What's going on here? And what caused it (at least in this case)?

04/06/2026

Following on from yesterday's post, here is the pulp canal being filled up with resin composite as part of this lovely boy's root canal therapy! In this case, as it was sealed at the base with a dentinal bridge, we were able to fill the entire cavity with resin composite as there was no connection to vital tissue (in which case we would have needed to use our flowable eCSC to help stimulate the tooth to seal the root and to kill bacteria).

This should prevent the infection from extending through the dentinal bridge, preventing a painful tooth root infection.

03/06/2026

Very rewarding performing root canal therapy on this lovely boy! Thanks to his very dedicated owner and Dr Josie and the awesome team at , we knew from his CT that there was only a single pulp affected and that the pulp was sealed at the bottom with a dentinal bridge. The bridge was 19mm deep below the occlusal surface though and with eruption occuring at around 2-3mm/ year, it could be almost 10 years of food packing in and decaying, which can demineralise through that dentinal bridge and (re)infect the rest of the pulp system/ kill the tooth.

By removing the feed material, disinfecting the canal, etching, bonding and then restoring it, we can prevent the feed from entering and the decay from progressing, preventing a painful tooth root infection/ abscess. Treating at this stage is much simpler, quicker, (cheaper!) and has a much higher success rate than if we wait for infection to occur and then need to treat the whole tooth once there is already serious infection.

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440 Nicholson Road Forrestdale
Perth, WA
6112

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 4pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 4pm
Thursday	8:30am - 4pm
Friday	8:30am - 4pm

Telephone

+61893971286

Website

http://www.DentalVet.com.au/

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