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North Park Veterinary Group

Equine Newsletter

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 complemented  this 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.