Dear Dr. Vittoria: When an equine dentist works on a horse’s teeth, I have always heard it as “floating their teeth.” How did that phrase come about? – Curious in Shartlesville Dear Curious: The term ...

EAGLE COUNTY — Wildman doesn’t generally live up to his name, and he was downright sedate when Dr. Susan O’Brien went to work on his teeth. O’Brien is a local veterinarian who focuses on equine ...

For centuries, horsemen have been using teeth as a means to help determine a horse’s age. The baby teeth come in at certain times, are shed and replaced by permanent teeth at certain times, and then ...

Veterinary medicine students from Colorado State University work on the teeth of horses at the Dumb Friends League Harmony Equine Center on May 16, 2017 in Castle Rock. The students were under the ...

A team of paleodentists of sorts has examined fossilized horse teeth from as far as 55.5 million years ago and found a timeline of changing tooth features that matches up with the climate record. The ...

Dear Dr. Vittoria: Do horses’ teeth chatter when they are cold like ours? I don’t know how to tell if my horse is cold. – Concerned horse owner Dear Concerned: Horses don’t actually chatter their ...

EAGLE COUNTY — Wildman doesn’t generally live up to his name, and he was downright sedate when Dr. Susan O’Brien went to work on his teeth. O’Brien is a local veterinarian who focuses on equine ...