New Year – New Decade
– New Equipment at North Park Equine
We have recently
purchased two new pieces of equipment with direct applications specifically for
your horses.
CR Digital X-Ray
development based at North Tawton give us the ability to both manipulate the
radiographic image to improve the diagnostic capability and to copy the images
onto a computer storage facility making them available both within the 3
geographic sites at North Park Veterinary Group and also to provide copies on
CD for farriers or insurance companies along with referral practices.
All X-Rays still
demand the correct exposure factors and angles related to the anatomy under
investigation just like photography. The incorrect projection or power will not
give a good diagnostic image. Excellent equipment can only give excellent
results when the human element is correctly focussed. To this end our equine
staff keep up to date at further education courses in many areas.
A new lightweight yet
powerful portable X-Ray machine has complementedthis CR Digital X-Ray developer to improve
the radiographic service offered to our patients.
The second area of
investment is the purchase of our second motorised equine dental machine. The
HDE unit is lightweight and quiet with a variety of different end pieces and
extensions allowing us to improve our services in this area. Our horses and
ponies will benefit from state of the art equipment making removal of spikes,
overgrowths and exaggerated transverse ridges more comfortable. In addition
specialised heads will allow a better treatment of ‘Diastema’ ( a gap between
two teeth). Some Diastema cases can be painful as food material is ‘grouted
between the teeth , filling the gap.