In our practice, usually about an hour and a half. We always take blood and do pre-anesthetic blood work before cleaning the teeth. With the sevoflurane that we use to maintain general anesthesia, they usually wake up really quickly, so they get to wake up in their home rather than in a clinic.

Yes. We use sevoflurane anesthesia, and we administer that through an endotracheal tube that we place when we induce the anesthesia with an iv.

In our case, it's my assistant and me, but we do that with electronic monitoring. Of course, we're watching your cat's breathing cycle and ensuring that his pulse oximetry is adequate, his EKG is doing well, his blood pressure is okay, and all that gets monitored electronically. So it's really safe, although it didn't used to be 48 years ago when I started.

I'm certain that all of you who are looking at this video have had your teeth cleaned at the dentist's. The reason for that is that a cat just won't allow us to put that piezoelectric dental scaler or a polisher with a grid on it to polish his teeth in his mouth. So that's why general anesthesia is required.

Not much. If we do your cat's dentistry, and we arrive at your driveway, you just have to bring them out to our van, and we do the whole procedure there. Our dental squeeze is behind the door behind me, and we'll take care of cleaning his teeth.

Cats are sensitive to chemicals, but if you are using a prescription product made for cats, you don't really have any worries.

You just need to enlist a professional and tell them what kind of problem you have, and they'll guarantee they will get rid of them. But the bottom line is that if you don't control them on the animals, you'll never get them out of your environment.

Like I said before, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but in the case of fleas and ticks, it's more like a ton of cure.