The bunny's owner sent me this information, and I have permission to
share it, and thought it might be interesting to the list.
sol
Cadbury was first diagnosed with dental disease in the fall of 1999, at
the age of one. She started out needing filings every 6 months, then
every 3 months. At the beginning of 2004, it began to get worse. She had
several episodes of frothing at the mouth and nose, accompanied by panic
(both of us). During the rush to the emergency vet the very first time,
she almost collapsed from lack of oxygen. I noticed that these episodes
took place immediately after she had eaten pellets. She had an infected
tooth that had to be pulled, as well as some swelling around the area
(we now know that the frothing is a result of pain from eating with an
infected tooth). She was started on Baytril and Bactrim and continued on
these medications for 5 months, while her infection gradually became
worse. My vet began implanting antibiotic beads or gauze and changing it
every 2 weeks. The infection still continued to worsen until her entire
chin was swollen to where my vet could not locate pockets to drain and
pack. After another client with a daughter who works in the human wound
management field told him about a product called ActiCoat, he decided to
try it with Cadbury. This client had been using it on her own in her
rabbit’s abscess and my vet saw a dramatic improvement in what had been
a very persistent abscess. ActiCoat is a silver-coated wound dressing
that is activated with sterile saline. My vet made three incisions in
Cadbury’s chin and stitched the pockets open. At this time, he took
colloidal silver mixed with a small percentage of DMSO (Paula’s
suggestion) and injected various areas in her swollen chin. Every day
for 6 weeks, the disintegrated pieces of ActiCoat would be pulled out of
the pockets and new pieces would be inserted. Improvement was seen
almost everyday as the swelling subsided and the pockets started healing
and closing from the inside out. We also began injectible penicillin
w/procaine G and benzathine on an every other day dosage. After 2 weeks
of treatment, Cadbury developed slight head tilt with up and down eye
nystagmus. Within 2 days of adding meclizine, Baytril and Metacam to her
treatment regimen, the nystagmus stopped and her head was back straight
after a few more weeks.
Now it is 4 months later and she has no soft tissue swelling. She is
still exhibiting bone reformation and does occasionally develop an
infected tooth that needs to be pulled. She is still on the penicillin
injections and receives injections of colloidal silver/DMSO in her chin
while she’s under anesthesia for her filings. The packings of ActiCoat
helped speed up the healing of the abscess pockets because silver kills
many different types of bacteria, viruses, and fungi on contact. They
were very large, deep pockets and were completely healed up within 6
weeks with no new incisions necessary. Even though she still has a long
recovery and might not ever completely heal because of the underlying
dental disease, I am positive that she would not be here today if my vet
had not been willing to take a chance and try a product unfamiliar to him.
Cadbury is now missing a total of three incisors, one pre-molar and one
molar which is in the process of being loosened to pull (taking several
attempts).
Update dated 10-22-04----
When I sent you the story on Cadbury, I mentioned that she had an
infected tooth that the vet was working on. Well, Wednesday (10-20-04),
she had her teeth filed again and that particular tooth had tightened up
and had no pus at all.
She had no teeth pulled this time!
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