Case control study to identify a possible relationship between dental pathology, impaction colic and faecal particle size distribution in horses : preliminary results Universiteit Gent
Introduction: Tooth pathology has been mentioned as risk factor for development of colic problems in horses. It might be expected that inefficient mastication secondary to painful or biomechanically hindering tooth anomalies leads to less physical breakdown of food which increases the proportion of long fibres in the gut and thus the likelihood of developing large colon impaction.Method: The dentition of 20 horses treated for large colon ...