Guelph vet called in to take out lion’s infected tooth
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A lion at the Toronto Zoo is feeling much better after his infected tooth was taken out by a Guelph veterinarian.
A lion at the Toronto Zoo is feeling much better after his infected tooth was taken out by a Guelph veterinarian on Thursday.
Fintan, the 12-year-old white African lion, was taken to the zoo’s Wildlife Health Centre after staff noticed that he was “out of sorts with his food.”
A few years ago, Fintan had a root canal and a crown put on his upper left canine.
When staff spotted crack on the lion’s crown, they called in Dr. Martin Hamilton and his team.
Fintan was sedated and transported to the Hale Veterinary Clinic in Guelph where they determined that the tooth needed to be extracted.
“After nearly two hours of surgery, the tooth was removed, the infected material deep in the bone cleaned out, and a skin flap replaced over the deficit,” the zoo said on its Facebook page.
