17 September 2025

Horse Dental Emergency: Symptoms & When to Call

Is your horse facing a dental emergency? Discover the key signs of equine dental problems and know when to call a vet immediately.

12 August 2025

Why a vet - but NOT a tech ?

Only a vet can safely treat your horse’s teeth. Technicians are legally restricted to minor work. Trust professional equine dental care.

5 August 2025

Small ponies & donkeys also need dental treatments

Do only sport horses need dental care? Absolutely not. Every horse, pony, or donkey – young, old, ridden or not – requires regular dental check-ups. Discover what an equine dentist does and how untreated dental problems can affect even pasture pets. At Equide, we treat all equines in optimal conditions – including the smallest ponies!

26 June 2025

Standard dental treatment in horses

The importance of healthy and functioning horse teeth is still often underestimated. Horses, like us, can develop dental problems and here too, prevention is better than cure.

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.

11 June 2025

It is NOT normal for a horse to have trouble eating after a dental treatment

Be aware: a properly done dental treatment on horses should not result in visible side effects!

27 May 2025

Quidding

Quidding is a chewing malfunction that can be caused by several affections. Basically, the horse loses or spits balls of semi-chewed food stuffs out of its mouth.

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.

9 April 2025

Broodmares: Machines or Mothers?

Equide's opinion on boordmares and the tv-show: The Handmaid's Tale, also from a dental and welfare point of view

4 October 2021

World Animal Day & The race to the bottom

About the use of unhealthy breeding mares in the equine reproduction.

4 February 2025

Wolf teeth in horses

Wolf teeth are rudimentary molars found in a portion of our horses

12 November 2024

POSTER: Common bit and bridle related lesions in horses

Equide, in partnership with Vetrident (Dierenarts Stijn Teysen) and supported by the NCED , has recently published a poster (size A0) listing common bit and bridle related injuries.

17 July 2024

AAN DE TAND GEVOELD SERIES - HippoTV/Plattelands TV

1 June 2022

Wat als je paard een ontstoken tand heeft?

Article in Dutch

1 May 2022

Help, mijn paard heeft een spleetje tussen zijn tanden ...

Article in Dutch

1 March 2022

Het Gebitsonderzoek

Article in Dutch

31 January 2022

Welkom in de wondere wereld van de paardentanden

Article in Dutch

20 September 2021

Booklet: common bit and bridle related lesions in horses - bitfitting

New creation: an A4 booklet on the most common injuries related to bits and bridles and a lot of advice on correct bit-fitting.

30 June 2021

Bit- and bridle-related injuries in the ridden horse - Part 2

The first part of this article was an overview of the normal anatomy and the most common 'bit-related injuries' in our horses. In addition to a good inspection of the oral cavity and diagnosis of these typical injuries, it is of course essential to be able to give the owner well-founded advice.

31 May 2021

Bit- and bridle-related injuries in the ridden horse - Part 1

Bit- and bridle-related injuries (further abbreviated as "bit injuries") in our horses are common findings during routine dental checkups.

30 April 2021

Tooth extraction in horses in 2021

Molar extractions 20 years ago were done almost exclusively under general anesthesia and via an (external) surgical approach. In 2021, this is still only necessary in very exceptional cases. As a result, the risk of complications has been drastically decreased (Caramello et al. 2020).