Zoboomafoo's son gets a root canal

This past Friday I had the chance to work on the son of a celebrity.  My older kids (now 21 and 18) grew up enjoying the Kratt Brothers and their talking Coquerel's Sifaka named Zoboomafoo on PBS in the early 1990's.  A lemur puppet actually did the talking, but the real lemur lived at the Duke Lemur Center here in Durham. On occasion I have the opportunity to volunteer doing veterinary dentistry at the Duke Lemur Center.  On Friday Katie, a Registered Veterinary Technician here at Westside, and I performed a root canal procedure on Charlemagne, Zoboomafoo's 7 year old son. 

We had the privilege of being joined by Linda Levin, DDS, PHD.  Linda is a board certified human endodontist that practices in Durham.  Linda taught endodontics at UNC School of Dentistry for 20 years before going into private practice.  It was so great to have her advice because Charlemagne's teeth have some features that are more similar to people then dogs or cats. 

Here is picture with Dr Levins, Dr Bobby Schopler (Duke Lemur Center Veterinarian), a still slightly sleepy Charlemagne and myself.

Scout gets a metal crown

Scout is a very sweet and compliant little  8 lb Chihuahua.  She fractured her right maxillary 4th premolar tooth a few months ago.  Her owner is a human dental school student and wanted to save this  very important tooth.  So I did a root canal on the tooth.  Here is a dental radiograph after the root canal was completed.

To protect the tooth from further injury we put a full metal crown on the tooth today.

Scout is very fortunate to have such a great owner!