Case
29 July 2025
CASE: Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Horse’s Tongue
A horse with tongue cancer: symptoms, diagnosis, and what vets can learn from this rare and aggressive condition.
1 July 2025
CASE: Successful Treatment of a Horse with Mycotic Sinusitis
Equide favors the least invasive techniques for treating sinusitis, with transnasal sinuscopy being the first choice. This involves examining and treating the nasal passages and sinuses with a small flexible camera. However, sometimes the location and/or extent of the condition requires us to make additional openings to address the issue thoroughly.
12 June 2025
PPID/Cushing sickness in horses
The relationship between PPID and your horse's mouth. From a dental perspective, PPID increases the horse's risk of periodontitis, excessive tooth mobility and the risk of sinusitis.
14 May 2025
The nonsense and risks of creating so-called 'bitseats' in horses.
'Bitseats' or the (extreme) shortening and rounding of (part of) the first molars is neither harmless nor scientifically proven.
4 October 2021
World Animal Day & The race to the bottom
About the use of unhealthy breeding mares in the equine reproduction.
2 January 2025
Case: Malposition of Permanent Premolars in a Young Horse
A 2.5-year-old horse was presented to Equide (equine veterinary dentist) for a bilateral malposition of two maxillary molars. This report details the steps of a complex extraction of the problematic teeth, highlighting the importance of early management of dental anomalies in horses.
8 November 2024
CASE: Chronic sinusitis on a older horse
This case report describes the complex treatment of chronic sinusitis in a 22-year-old horse with PPID and laminitis. Interventions included sinus flushes, trepanation to remove a bone sequestrum, and preventive dental care to maintain healthy chewing.
31 March 2021
External trauma as a cause of equine dental developmental disorder
This case illustrates how a traumatic impact to the head of a young horse can lead to complex dental pathology. Horses in general - and young horses in group housing in particular - can easily injure themselves or each other. The impact of these traumas ranges from harmless to fatal
29 January 2025
Extraction of a broken canine on a horse
When a canine tooth is removed, a mucoperiostal flap is usually created, after which a portion of the surrounding alveolar bone is removed. When the tooth has been prepared free and sufficiently mobilized, it can be removed.
2 June 2021
Conference ECVD: Developmental Disorders in Equine Dentition
June 4, 2021: Wouter Demey's lecture about Developmental Disorder in Equine Dentition during the (virtual) 29th European Congress of Veterinary Dentistry