Referral Request Form

Whenever possible please take sharp, close-up digital photo images of your patient's mouth and attach below.

If your patient requires sedation just for you to do an oral examination, please make sure to take digital photo images to send as attachments below.

If your patient has painful dental or oral pathology, whether or not he or she is showing clinical signs of pain, please dispense analgesics and provide us with the details below. We typically recommend gabapentin at a dosage of 10 mg/kg PO q8-12h for both dogs and cats.

If there are any pulp exposed teeth or if there is stomatitis with mucosal inflammation and ulceration beyond the gingiva, analgesic and antibiotic therapies are indicated. We recommend amoxicillin and clavulanic acid at a dosage of 12.5 mg/kg PO q12h for both dogs and cats if there is no hypersensitivity to this antibiotic. We strongly recommend against antibiotic pulse therapy as this is ineffective, and risks the development of antibiotic resistance.