Cost of teeth cleaning

[lindapalm]

I'm curious as to what everybody else pays for teeth cleaning. Our dog had two small teeth extractions, plus cleaning, antibiotics five days before and five days after, pre cleaning blood tests and pain meds. for at home. The bill came to $445.00, plus a recheck in a week. Is that an average price, or too high? We've had it done before, and never paid this much, but I realize prices have gone up alot. Just curious what prices are everywhere else.

[Gail P]

That sounds about in line with what I've heard from several other people. Also sounds crazy to me though, with all the dogs I have I can't imagine having to pay that per dog. I check teeth on my dogs and will scale them myself if need be, but I've found that giving them bones to chew on has been keeping their teeth sparkling white so no scaling has been needed. I used to give the large smoked bones but have more recently switched to raw marrow bones with even better results. The cost of the bones is so minimal compared to what dental fees would be, plus the dogs get a treat so it works out great all around

[Melinda]

Ive never had any of my dogs teeth cleaned, but my friend just paid 350 to have her dogs done, they had to set him to sleep to do it, I just give them soup bones to gnaw on and when we go for our vet visits if there is a heavy piece of tartar that we can't remove the vet just does it there at no charge, just part of the check up like doing her nails and cleaning her ears.

[chico2]

I actually think that is cheap,maybe cats teethcleaning and extractions cost more than dogs,but I paid almost $800 for cleaning+extracting one tooth in my cat Vinnie,the vet also removed a small growth on Vinnies belly.

[Shaykeija]

$200.00 for 5 extractions, and 7 days of antibiotics. Scaling and polishing.

[muddmutt]

I saved up the $400+ for the past year for my female cat's teeth cleaning, then when I made the appt they said it would be that plus an addtl $200 per tooth extraction. Needless to say I couldn't do it. Today there was a new vet in the office and she said "she has a little gingivitis, but nothing to be concerned about right now. Bill today was $296 for a two cat office visit, Should have been a VET