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Posted On Feb 05, 2026

Updated On Feb 05, 2026

Periodontal Care In Cats With Stomatitis

Dentistry

This question was submitted related to the webinar titled Spotlight on Feline Chronic Stomatitis - Current Concepts and Future Directions:

Question:
You mentioned doing "periodontal treatment" on remaining teeth in cats that only have partial-mouth extractions performed for chronic stomatitis. What does that mean exactly? What does that include?

Answer provided by Boaz Arzi, DVM, DAVDC, DEVDC, FF-AVDC-OMFS:
This means sub and supra gingival cleaning / periodontal treatment with an ultrasonic scaler and hand instruments if needed. This is for situations where the canine and incisor teeth do not exhibit periodontitis on dental radiographs and a judgment can be made to not extract those teeth (and only extract the premolar and molar teeth).