What can cause pet tooth resorption?September 23, 2022The cause of tooth resorption likely resides in an environmental change or aspect of domestication that 1) has increased in popularity since the 1960s, and 2) is capable of causing changes to the entire periodontium of multiple, if not all, permanent teeth.
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Diagnosing tooth resorption in cats and dogsAugust 11, 2022Cats almost never get cavities, but they are prone to get cavity-like tooth defects called tooth resorption. Tooth resorption has had many different names through the years, including cervical line lesions, neck lesions, feline odontoclastic resorptive lesions (FORL) and “feline odontolysis.” Recent studies have helped clarify this disease starts on the root surface and not specifically at the cervical portion of the tooth, so we now simply call it “tooth resorption” (TR).
