It is important to your pet’s overall health care program to provide regular, professional dental care. Plaque and tartar that build-up on your pet’s teeth can lead to gingivitis. Reddened, bleeding gums, difficulty chewing and bad breath are all signs of gingivitis. Untreated gingivitis can progress to a more advanced form of periodontal disease, a bacterial infection that, if left untreated, can cause the loss of teeth. The same bacteria causing gingivitis and periodontal disease can be carried into the blood stream and cause damage to your pet’s kidneys, heart, liver and other organs. Regular dental cleanings remove plaque and tartar and prevent gingivitis and periodontal disease.

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A drop of a medication is placed in the pet’s eye to help numb the cornea (surface of the eye). Then a pen-sized instrument is gently touched to the surface of the cornea to measure the pressure within the eye. High pressure in the eye is known as glaucoma. Low pressure in the eye is often caused by uveitis. Both high and low eye pressures can be associated with eye discomfort and may impact your pet’s vision if not treated.

Electrocardiograms analyze the electrical activity of the heart enabling us to determine if abnormal activity is present. This can be very useful when irregular heartbeats are detected or in the complete evaluation of conditions such as heart murmurs and coughing. For safety, we also monitor a continuous electrocardiogram for patients under general anesthesia.

Immunizations are one of the best tools we have available in preventive medicine. The key to using vaccines appropriately is to determine which diseases each particular pet may be at risk for and then vaccinate for those diseases no more than necessary.

We believe that our balanced approach to vaccines is the best way to protect your pet from disease and minimize the risk of an adverse reaction to a vaccine.

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American Pet Hospital is committed to providing quality veterinary care for your pet throughout his or her lifetime. Both our facilities and services are designed to manage the wellness of your pet under any circumstance, but our experience has taught us that prevention is indeed the best medicine. Whether it is preventive care for your kitten or puppy, dental care throughout your pet’s life, or pain management and support for your senior pet, we are prepared to provide your pet with the necessary routine care required for a lifetime of health and happiness.

Scheduling an annual wellness exam is an essential part of maintaining the overall health of your pet. This type of exam is crucial to discovering potential health issues your pet may experience and bringing them under control before they pose a serious problem for your beloved pet. Many conditions, such as heart disease, dental disease, bone and joint problems, and cancers, may go undetected for years without this type of routine care. That’s why the annual wellness exam is considered the single most important investment in your pet’s health.

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We recommend having feces checked and analyzed to determine whether your animal has an intestinal parasite, bacterial overgrowth, blood, or other intestinal problems. This is an important part of diagnostic workups and even routine exams.

In order to ensure the health and well being of our pets, stool examinations for parasite eggs have been part of the veterinary routine for decades. Although stool examinations have become routine, a new procedure has recently been presented that has drastically improved the quality of the results.
Depending on the parasite involved, this new procedure can dramatically influence the quality of the results. Previous methods for hookworms only revealed half the number of parasites as the new method. For roundworms the new method reveals about 100 times more parasites, for whipworms we can now detect infections where the parasite remained undetected before. Detecting the actual parasite burden of our pets is important to the pet’s health, but to protect human health as well. Undetected infection can lead to animal and human illness.