What dental disease does to a mouth
Most of it happens out of sight, under the gum. Pick your pet, then watch a mouth go from healthy to gum disease, see what a Luna dental puts right and how to keep it that way. Tap any tooth to find out more about it.
A healthy mouth
White teeth, pink gums, and every tooth held firm by the bone round its roots.
Keeps it this way: care at home
Tartar building up
Plaque left on the teeth hardens into tartar along the gum, most of all on the big cheek teeth at the back. Once it has set a brush cannot shift it, and the gums beside it start to redden.
What this mouth needs: Protect & Shine
Gum disease
Under the tartar, infection works down between gum and tooth and eats away the bone that holds it: the grey on a root is the hold it has lost. Teeth loosen and ache, and most pets hide it and keep eating.
What this mouth needs: Fix & Shine
After a Luna dental
Under anaesthetic the mouth is X-rayed and charted, every tooth is cleaned and polished, below the gum as well as above, and the teeth that cannot be saved come out so the mouth can heal. On the day the gums are still red and sore.
What this mouth had: Fix & Shine
The gums settle
With the tartar gone and the infection cleaned out, the gums calm down over the following weeks: pink again, and no longer sore. Bone already lost does not grow back, so the grey on the roots stays. That is why an early check matters.
What this mouth had: Fix & Shine
Kept clean at home
Plaque comes back every day. A few minutes of care at home stops it hardening into tartar again, so the mouth stays as the dental left it.
Keeps it this way: care at home
- Brush every day: A soft brush and an enzymatic gel lift the plaque before it can harden. Start with a finger brush and work up to a toothbrush.
- Tooth powder on their food: A sprinkle of natural seaweed powder on their food every day helps keep plaque and tartar from building up.
Which Luna dental?
- Care at home: A healthy mouth: brushing and tooth powder every day, and regular teeth checks on the Luna app.
- Protect & Shine (£290): Tartar and mild gum inflammation: a full clean and polish, X-rays and charting.
- Fix & Shine (£690): Gum disease, with teeth that need to come out: the clean, plus 90 minutes of dental surgery.
- Restore & Shine (£1,290): Advanced care to save a tooth: root canal and vital pulp therapy, and more, at Luna Reading.