If my cat needs extractions, will pain medication be given?

One of my other certifications is pain management. Our team is trained to go above and beyond in pain management because we want the best outcomes. A little bit of a lot of things gives you the best outcome without any side effects. We're going to prevent and treat pain, should it already be present. Most of the time, we're talking about major nerve blocks. I just published a textbook talking about pain management, and I wrote a chapter on this for veterinarians. So veterinarians can even learn about it, but this is something that we do every day in practice. We want to make sure our patients are doing well.

With extractions, we actually remove a tooth. From our own dental health experiences, we all know that our teeth can hurt when they're damaged or extracted. So we want to make sure that your pet's pain is very well managed. Little Fritz here will have a dental procedure with us this afternoon. He's already had some narcotic medication, so he's feeling very good. If we do extractions, we'll do local nerve blocks on him, which is almost like Novocaine for you and I, so that when he wakes up, he'll be nice and numb. We're also going to use some anti-inflammatories, which we'll send home with Fritz if he needs any extractions. Pain management is very important here at Blue Oasis, and we take it very seriously.

Absolutely, yes. We know for sure in veterinary medicine that our patients recover much more quickly if we control their pain, so absolutely. We use pain control when they get their teeth pulled.

Absolutely, we will give pain medication. In addition, we do nerve blocks for numbing just as human dentists do. They're usually given some type of a narcotic for pain relief as well as oftentimes some medications to go home. We even have a newer form of pain medication that's a transdermal, it goes on the skin and provides four days of pain relief so that we don't have to medicate the cat personally.